Nintendo's latest Pokemon games have broken several records in just two days.
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Pokemon Black and Pokemon White were released in Japan over the weekend. Some retailers sold out, but even with demand exceeding supply, Pokemon Black and Pokemon White still managed to sell exceptionally well.
Pre-orders for the game managed to reach 1.7 million, though some retailers stopped taking pre-orders as they were afraid that they wouldn’t have enough stock. In a mere two days, the games managed to sell 2,637,285 copies, breaking the record for the biggest all-time game opening in Japan.
To put this in perspective, only Final Fantasy VIII for the PlayStation managed to sell over 2.5 million units its first week, and only five other games have ever broken the 2 million mark for first week sales in Japan.
What makes the feat even more amazing is that Pokemon Black and Pokemon White had two days of sales in the tracking period opposed to the usual four, due to the game being released on Saturday rather than the usual Thursday. The next shipment of games is not scheduled to arrive until this weekend, so it appears as though some gamers might have to do some searching to find a copy of the game.
Here are the openings of past mainline Pokemon games in Japan, as well as their lifetime-to-date totals.
1. [NGB] Pokemon Red / Green / Blue (Nintendo) – 140,074 / 7,783,101
2. [NGB] Pokemon Gold / Silver (Nintendo) – 1,425,768 / 6,089,503
3. [NDS] Pokemon Diamond / Pearl (Pokemon Co.) – 1,586,360 / 5,767,283
4. [GBA] Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire (Pokemon Co.) – 1,245,003 / 5,337,045