Well…DUUUUUUUUH.
Pokémon games have always been a license to print money for Nintendo. This year, they very may well be drowning in fat stacks o’ cash. According to a press release via Famitsu, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire has shipped 7.7 million units worldwide. Not sold mind you, but shipped. Still, this is rather good news for the colour-coded remakes.
The kicker here, is that the game has done especially well in Europe, with week one sales being stronger than Hulkamania. In fact, the duo of games say an increase of 135% when compared to the launch of Pokémon X and Y last year. Which is good news for the franchise then. Retails sales in Japan alone, are around 1.86 million units sold as it is. In terms of overall revenue alone, Nintendo is looking at $308 million in revenue over a pair of weeks, according to those numbers. Even when various costs are factored in, that equates a whole lot of moolah.
It also most likely means that the older games will get the inevitable remaster as well. Which at this point, I don’t mind at all. Diamond and Pearl would most likely be next for the 3D treatment, the generation that I didn’t exactly enjoy too much. In fact, the fourth generation Pokémon games may just be the very worst in my book. But if a 3D remake along the lines of Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire is on the cards, maybe that could spruce up the least exciting of Pokémon games.
Last Updated: December 4, 2014
I'm really feeling it! (Umar)
December 4, 2014 at 14:31
I wonder how Youkai Watch is gonna fair when it reaches our shores. It too is doing incredibly well in Japan
CAE9872
December 4, 2014 at 14:41
Have you got a link offhand? No idea of this game.
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 15:07
#StayStrongUmar
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 14:41
Thanks Darryn. This is a nice and light article on the soul after all the heavy stuff this day. I need more happiness! This week has not been great.
CAE9872
December 4, 2014 at 14:42
100% – was starting to forget why I come here.
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 14:50
A typicalz femiz like u wuld say dis!
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 4, 2014 at 14:52
Your face is feminine!
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 14:56
FMINAZI!
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 4, 2014 at 15:00
… I felt something deflect off my beard.
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 14:57
If history and your comments towards me is any indicator I am definitely the most feminine.
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 4, 2014 at 15:01
Well yes, but now’s not really the time to bring it up – I’m aiming it at him right now.
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 15:02
Rolls a 1.Critical fail.
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 15:03
Oh right. Sorry.
I hear woman or feminine and I sommer immediately grab my eyeliner and stand on attention.
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 15:30
🙂
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 14:57
We seriously have to do something about this new slang you’ve picked up dude. It’s not doing well for the little street cred that you have.
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 14:58
Street cred? with you pricks about, you’ve got to be kidding. You’d give a contingent of ION hotties a complex after a brief meeting. Because, WOMENZ!
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 4, 2014 at 15:00
You underestimate me. I can give anyone a complex.
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 15:00
LOL!
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 15:01
Like a vitamin?
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 4, 2014 at 15:02
Sure, let’s go with something positive.
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 15:03
I was going to say something else but was being positive. Oh, double positive!
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 15:04
*looks up at the sky, waiting for a double rainbow to appear
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 15:01
That’s impossible. Like we’d ever come in contact with them. They don’t navigate the caves where we live.
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 15:02
I see what you did there! *Points finger *GG!
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 15:06
wow
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 15:35
I want to tell you that you get used to it, but you don’t.
CAE9872
December 4, 2014 at 14:42
I am itching to get my son into Pokemon; he may enjoy but he is a little obsessed with Smash Bros at the moment. Soon…
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 14:44
You could have ended with Well DUUUUUUH. Epic article would thus have been epic
RinceThis
December 4, 2014 at 14:50
Are they still making these god damn games?
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 14:53
They are endless. They are eternal
Quo Vadis?
December 4, 2014 at 14:55
Yup. Like herpes 🙂
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 15:11
lol
Ammy Taylor
December 4, 2014 at 15:11
Start working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life.
This is what I do……
??????????? G00.Me/OHWt7
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 15:22
You see what comments like that land you? Bots! Hahahahaha
Captain JJ the fair
December 4, 2014 at 15:36
LOL
Quo Vadis?
December 4, 2014 at 15:45
evil bastards! must be you and your bad karma attracting them 🙂
Quo Vadis?
December 4, 2014 at 14:54
pokecrap. That’s what I like to call it 😀
Matthew Holliday
December 4, 2014 at 15:21
crappymon, i choose you.
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 15:24
Pfsh. You guys are just jelious that the games are actually fun and you can’t understand them. It’s ok to feel like you are missing out. You really are
Quo Vadis?
December 4, 2014 at 15:56
I guess its fun…. for a 10 year old *RUNS, hides*
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 16:31
Then I am happily 10 hehe
Quo Vadis?
December 4, 2014 at 16:46
that creates a problem. Most titles on the PS4 is for 16+ age groups. Best you wait for the Wii competition then. Thanks for playing, better luck next time ;P
Raptor Rants A Lot
December 4, 2014 at 16:53
Kids don’t care about age limits. Still in it to win it
J_Joestar
December 4, 2014 at 18:30
mature adults should care either,
whether it is shooting a guy in the face or petting a Pikachu on the head while feeding it a macaron, fun is fun.
Quo Vadis?
December 4, 2014 at 15:44
the only thing I like regarding pokemon, is Adam Sandler’s severe beating of a pokemon hahahahahaha
CAE9872
December 4, 2014 at 14:54
It’s Nintendo’s own COD franchise.
vietnham
December 16, 2014 at 10:14
Mario Games – Kizi – K7x
vietnham
December 16, 2014 at 10:14
Kizi 1 – Doraemon Games – Pou Games
vietnham
December 26, 2014 at 12:15
Pou Games
f0rever_rachel
December 26, 2014 at 16:49
why nobody can stop this account from Disqus posts? Just check all its comments, it’s just a spam machine!
Rony Nham
December 31, 2014 at 11:25
Mario Games
Rony Nham
December 31, 2014 at 11:25
Kizi – K7x
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