The Pokémon Company is well into its year-long anniversary celebrating its franchise, with Pokkén Tournament the latest arrival in stores, while Pokémon Sun and Moon and Pokémon Go will be a huge arrivals later in the year.
We all know that the series is successful, but there are now some clear figures that emphasize the scale of its impact on the gaming industry. The Pokémon Company has issued an update stating that, as of 29th February, the main series of games has reached around 201 million sales, which is a huge number. When you include the many spin-offs, meanwhile, total franchise video game sales have passed 279 million sales.
Those are amazing numbers for the series, and the brand is only set to grow in the years to come. Heck, it even had the year's most popular Super Bowl commercial.
[source pokemon.co.jp, via serebii.net]
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I have only only got Red on day of release. I think I will get both Sun and Moon.
Most popular super bowl commercial? I thought it was ok, but it didn't really scream Pokemon until like 25 seconds in.
I'm worried if GTA will eventually beat the hell out of Pokemon.....
It would sell that much more on mobile (sarcasm).
@Socar Get ready for it, CoD is actually ahead of GTA at 250mil give or take, so it's only 30 million units off Pokemon, so basically the next big couple of CoD games will probably make it go past. Even then, GTA right behind CoD in sales and it's only another 15 mil behind. The numbers are on a couple articles by googling top selling video game series of all time. Lol even wikipedia. GTA is probably unstoppable right now, but CoD feels old and like it could be succeeded someday by a new series?
PuppyMonkeyBaby is a leaked Pokemon for Sun and Moon.
@Dankykong If only Fire Emblem, F-Zero and Metroid can reach such heights....... We'd never have to worry about them not being milked.
And if they would release a proper console Pokemon game, I may actually get into Pokemon, I have never played a Pokemon game in my life, I never had one even though I owned a Game Boy from 1989 and on
@Danrenfroe2016 Given that the head honcho's of Game Freak think that Pokémon works the best, and hits a bigger market, on handheld I think a console mainline game is nothing but a dream.
It would be nice though.
Anyway, congrats Pokémon! I will be buying Sun later this year!
Not too shabby at all. I'm guilty of paying my fair share of that pie throughout the years due to my Pokemon gaming addiction.
I helped somewhat I'm ready for the next 20 years of pokaymans.
WE MADE IT, LETS GO!!!! Congrats on the sales, and I hope more to come. Honestly I can't see Pokèmon dying out for a while, so let's look forward to plenty more years to come.
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