Last year, Nintendo released Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2
for the Nintendo DS. While the two games have already sold over 7
million copies to date, plenty of people are also still getting caught
up with older Pokémon titles. In fact, over the course of the last one year, about 1 million people were content buying older Pokémon RPGs.
Take a look at the table below, containing sales data for Pokémon that we’ve compiled from Nintendo’s various financial reports over the last year, with an explanation below it.
Released |
Title |
March 2012 |
March 2013 |
Increase |
2007 |
Pokémon Diamond/Pearl |
17.61 million |
17.63 million |
+20,000 |
2010 |
Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver |
12.40 million |
12.67 million |
+270,000 |
2011 |
Pokémon Black/White |
14.71 million |
15.42 million |
+710,000 |
The “March 2012” column shows worldwide sales figures for each Pokémon
RPG as of March 31st, 2012. The “March 2013” column shows sales figures
exactly one year later. By calculating the difference between these
figures, the “Increase” column tells us how much each game sold from
March 2012 to March 2013.