Pokémon Sun and Moon Are Now the Fastest Nintendo Games to Clear 4 Million Sales

Love my pokemon moon so far, played it for 40 hours until now and I'm still searching for pokemon to complete my pokedex.

Pity, there were better Pokemon games

I was holding out on buying this game for Pokemon Stars on the Switch.
I can still hope, but each passing day sees it less likely.

I love Pokémon Sun and am at 200hrs+ at the moment, Gen 7 is sitting right next to Gen 3 as my favourite set of Pokémon games ever.

Interesting to note that people who dislike Sun/Moon (their personal opinion, not fact) tend to Nintendoom that Sun/Moon will never sell as well as X/Y... well of course not. X/Y was the first 3D mainline Pokémon ever and the first on the 3DS. You can not deny that Sun/Moon is having sensational sales.

Impressive.
If Switch has proper Pokemon games, it will be BOOM...!

Nintendoomed!

Trainer's Log, day 84

"Our trip to Alola is starting to take its toll on my fellow comrades. They came here when the closed banks in Greece caused a mass hysteria in their homeland, and they thought they could find some solace in this archipelago. They were wrong.
Steve was the first to resort to cannibalism this morning. He was eating - eating, I say - his own Cubone. We thought this horrific stuff was best left in the first Resident Evil scene, but somehow he ended up reenacting the first zombie encounter from that game. He turned around slowly, his mouth filled with blood, muttering something about "the Bank". Whether he referred to his homeland's banks or some other bank is unclear. The Cubone is alright, however. The poor thing merely evolved. Might have something to do with the fact it was killed and roasted, therefore gaining Ghost and Fire types respectively. Beats me.
Anyway, I hope this "Bank" comes soon, because the nostalgia for my comrades' older Pokémon teams is causing a viral outbreak. I don't know how long I will go on before eventually falling prey to this awful disease. Should I ever die while on these islands, tell my wife I love her. And call her child Cubone, in memory of our first victim. Or, rather, don't, because that would imply a rather nasty demise for my loved one."

If Gen 7 play the cards right it will be my favorite gen ever! And I thought that no gen will beat the second ever!
But we need a third game or something like that with the possibility to revisit another region.

4.5 million units in the United States alone. Worldwide it has cleared at least 10 million.

I think this really speaks to the staying power of the 3DS, too. Some are saying the 3DS is dying, but a record breaking software quarter and a seven month streak of better yearly sales is far from that. If anything, it's doing better than ever, and I hope they keep it around for quite awhile.

@MitchVogel I wouldn't say it's dying, but constantly selling more software each year is a pretty standard claim for any piece of hardware that's not yet been replaced? In 2016 there were more 3DS owners than 2015 so you'd guess they would obviously sell more software? It's only once those machines are put away that the software sales start to go down.

Ultimately Nintendo will decide when the 3DS is done. I wonder would something like the next game in the Mario and Luigi series automatically get made for Switch now? They could have easily just put FE: Echoes on Switch so I wonder if they do intend to keep prompting the 3DS. E3 will give us a better idea if the 3DS will continue beyond this year.

@MitchVogel
It would be bad business to kill the 3DS any time soon.

The Switch is an unknown entity. It may sell great, it could sell OK or it can be bad.

The 3DS is the consistent breadwinner and is not going anywhere for a while until the Switch's future is decided one way or the other.

It's all about the rupees... or rather the Yen.

The 3DS still has one or two years left, in my opinion. Nintendo will make sure first that the Switch is up to task before sending the portable to its grave.

I don't think we'll se more first party support for it after this year though. FE:Echoes will be among the final games released.

My 3DS is an awesome games machine.. It can still fit in my pocket 😁

@cfgk24 Well, take the Joycons off & the Switch is smaller than the 3DS XL... wouldn't put it in my pocket though if you like unscratched screens.

@Luna_110 I'd have thought this was common sense, the 3DS will have another good couple of years but will eventually need to be wound down. Currently the 3DS is making money & keeping Nintendo afloat, in 2 years time Nintendo will see the 3DS as getting in the way of Switch sales (if all things go well).

I still think the N3ds is an extension of the 3ds family line. I would not be surprised if more N3ds exclusive titles were in the works. I am in NO hurry to see the 3ds family go! Hopefully at least a year more, two would be better in my book!

3DS will be have a fantastic year in 2017. There will not be anything as big as Pokémon Sun/Moon, but there will be lots of great games. If they marketing it right, Snack World could be a big title during holiday 2017.

2018 will be a different story. I expect that 3DS fans will have to make do with third party games, most of which will be localizations of Japanese games, because Nintendo will be 100% focused on the Switch. I think there will be a Pokemon game on Switch for holiday 2018 (bundled with the system at $300) and a price cut for the base hardware to $250. That will be the thing that pushes Switch to finally take off.

The Pokémon series has a history of sticking around on last-gen consoles longer than any other Nintendo IP (with Kirby being the other notable exception). The fifth generation of Pokémon started on the original DS just weeks before the 3DS released, and Black and White 2 came out for DS long after the 3DS was in full swing. Given the history, I fully expect there to be at least one more main series Pokémon game on 3DS before they make the switch to Switch.

....Still waiting on Bank update....>_>

Great sales!...Please put the next one on Switch.

@RatKing64
Oh, wow. Snack World for 3DS. I forgot.
That game was quite interesting but.... quite naughty...
You know... ehm.... those hunky genies ... looks so.... gay... (I'm blushed...)

Mind you, this is a testament to how pokemon go got new players and not a testament to pokemon SM quality.
I still prefer my gen 6, and gen 5 even more.

One of the best games overall, sadly the postgame is subpar compared to X/Y/OR/AS, with the bizarre leveling system making impossible to level anything past 30 quickly (let alone reach 100) and hyper training restricted to level 100.

The restriction of battle restaurant to once per day with not so strong pokemon is also baffling.

Insane Pokémon Sun/Moon sales. It took Pokémon X/Y nearly a year to sell what Sun/Moon sold in its first 2 months.

If the heavily rumored Pokémon Stars on Switch sells a mere 1/3rd of what Pokémon Sun/Moon sells, it will have comfortably sold more than any Nintendo 3DS or Wii U game during their first years on the market.

@DanteSolablood My 3ds only goes in my Jacket pocket or Cargo Pants pocket - never in my Jeans pockets lol.

I will get a small shoulder bag for my Switch - it will accompany me everywhere - I travel a lot .

@cfgk24 I'm a nerd, I always have a manbag with me anyway. No change for me!

@Tsurii Crapfest? What made you dislike gen 6 so much? I personally loved Pokemon X.

@Tsurii Gen 6 was better in almost every way, imo. I still like Gen 7, but it might be the most disappointing Pokemon generation for me so far.

While the single player experience is the best in the series for me, the online experience leaves something to be desired: No PSS, key features locked behind terrible minigames (the only way to level up quickly is the festival plaza), and you have to stop what you're doing currently to use online features.

happy to read that! i'm sure pokemon GO is a big component of this.
its reignited my love for the series and easily my favorite game, now i just want pokemon box to be available so i can trade my Mon from Omega Ruby

@Kmno They clearly built the leveling system around the idea that rare kitchen would be use extensively once players would have cleared the game (making ultra-training viable): you can get a legend from lv30 to 100 in less han two hours for the cost of 800 friendchips.
The main problem here is the fact that gathering those chips is stupidly slow.

May I know how reaching level30 is difficult?

@PsylockeRules It might come quickly now. Sights of the new bigger file (not an update) on Nintendo servers have been reported recently.

This is great! But Nintendo needs to get 3DS's back in stock if they are actually interested in keeping it alive, it's been extremely hard to buy most 3DS's since the holidays.

@RoomB31 It was crazy only seeing a 2ds or two in stock at the big box stores. I can't help but think Pokemon etc would have done even better had hardware been readily available as well for Christmas.

@Rei Ok I think I need to be more specific, if you want to train whole teams then it is slow as hell. Even with lucky egg and exp. share you get to level if you are lucky 1 level per battle, if you are not then you need at least two battles per level.

The place with the highest leveled pokemon is Poni Plains, with pokemon up tu level 57. Problem is when you level up you get less experience from any pokemon you battle, but it becomes bothersome when you are high level, so suddenly instead of the usual 2.5K to 3K experience points from these pokemons you start to get 1.8, 1.5, 1.3K and so on.

I don't know who was the idiot in GF that thought that was a good idea but it hampers your ability. Now for the rare kitchen it is another BS choice as you need a high level Festival Plaza and leveling that thing is just ugh, no, and of course even then you need those chips which again is just bothersome to get.

Compare that to the quick, almost broken way to level up in X/Y with the O-Power, exp. share and Le Wow Cafe in which you can level even the likes of Deino to Hydreigon in like two rounds at the cafe and you know somewhere along development they just screwed it.

@Kmno Oh, sorry. Indeed, I didn't understand. ^^"
Correction: the chips might be "bothersome" to get but a lv30 Festival Plaza (that's when the "high level" functions are unlocked) is pretty easy to acquire. After that, you only need to become the Master.

I always thought that the update to the experience gains in Black&White was the problem. And I suppose the current offers for leveling are an exaggerated reaction from Game Freak to the overexaggerated easiness to level-up in XY and ORAS. (I must admit that those game made leveling stupidly easy). Something far slower than that but faster than what we have ow would be great.