Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have grow to be the collection’ best-selling video games of all time in Japan, beating out the earlier record-holder for the primary time in a long time.
In line with a Famitsu report (for which we’re utilizing machine translation), Scarlet and Violet have offered over 8.3 million copies between them in Japan, which implies they’ve formally offered greater than the unique Pokemon Purple and Inexperienced (since Japan’s sport was Inexperienced quite than Blue).
Till this second, these unique video games held the file for Japan’s best-selling Pokemon video games, and given simply how a lot of a phenomenon Pokemon was when it first arrived, that is no imply feat.
It is value noting that these gross sales figures do solely apply to Japan, so Scarlet and Violet could effectively not be the best-selling Pokemon video games elsewhere on the planet.
Nevertheless, given the massive success of the Nintendo Change and the sky-high gross sales numbers of Scarlet and Violet all over the world, I would not be stunned if the latest video games have been additionally the best-selling in different areas.
Usually talking, mainline Pokemon video games are launched each three years or so, and since Scarlet and Violet launched in 2022, we are able to maybe anticipate an announcement relating to the following main Pokemon video games quickly.
It is doubtless, although, that Nintendo will wait till the successor to the Change is introduced. We’re anticipating information on that entrance someday earlier than April 2025, so the brand new Pokemon video games might be revealed alongside the console.
That announcement appears particularly more likely to coincide with the Change 2’s provided that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet met with criticism at launch relating to their lackluster efficiency on Change.
They are not the one video games in that individual firing line, both. Plainly devs could also be avoiding releasing video games on the Change owing to its growing old internals, so a successor would presumably enhance issues on that entrance, not only for Pokemon however throughout the board.
Nonetheless, since it has been confirmed that the Nintendo Change 2 (or regardless of the console finally ends up being known as) will likely be backwards appropriate, maybe there will be some type of efficiency enhance for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet on that entrance. We will however hope.
You possibly can take a look at Pokemon Scarlet and Violet proper now on Nintendo Change. A DLC pack, The Treasure of Space Zero, which contains two further story episodes, can be out there now.
