Nintendo’s monetary report for the primary quarter of FY2024 reveals some fairly massive numbers for the likes of Tears of the Kingdom and the Swap household of techniques as an entire, however one other identify that has continued to climb within the rankings over the previous few months is Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, which has pulled in a powerful 22.66 million gross sales as of thirtieth June 2023.
This can be a clear slowdown from the video games’ launch — bear in mind, the titles shifted 20 million within the first six weeks alone — however the numbers do transfer Scarlet and Violet ever nearer to breaking into the highest three best-selling video games within the sequence.
22.66 million gross sales leaves Scarlet and Violet nonetheless sitting in fourth on the desk of the best-selling Pokémon video games of all time, nonetheless, as Joe Merrick of Serebii states, that’s prone to change with the following report.
For reference, Pokémon Gold And Silver (at present the sequence’ third best-selling titles) managed to promote 23.7 million copies, so it is true that Scarlet and Violet will doubtless overtake the GBC titles within the close to future. What’s extra, Pokémon Sword and Defend is barely a bit of means forward with 25.92 million copies offered, so we will see ScaVi pushing all of it the best way to second.
In fact, the granddaddy of all of them remains to be Pokémon Pink, Inexperienced and Blue which sits on the high of the desk with 31.38 million copies offered — come on, ScaVi is massive, but it surely’s not going to high that one, proper? We’ll have to attend for the following monetary report in a couple of months’ time to see simply how far the newest entries within the sequence can go.
