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 Switch household of techniques as a complete, 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 is a transparent 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 (presently the sequence’ third best-selling titles) managed to promote 23.7 million copies, so it is true that Scarlet and Violet will seemingly overtake the GBC titles within the close to future. What’s extra, Pokémon Sword and Shield is just slightly method forward with 25.92 million copies bought, so we are able to see ScaVi pushing all of it the way in which to second.
Of course, the granddaddy of all of them remains to be Pokémon Red, Green and Blue which sits on the prime of the desk with 31.38 million copies bought — come on, ScaVi is massive, however it’s not going to prime that one, proper? We’ll have to attend for the following monetary report in a number of months’ time to see simply how far the newest entries within the sequence can go.
