After 28 years, Pokemon Red and Green have been dethroned as the best-selling Pokemon games in Japan
Nov. 19, 2024It’s time for a new era of Paldean dominance
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Pokemon Red and Green are no longer the series' best-selling games in Japan, as Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have now overtaken them.
Of course, these are just Japanese sales, so while Scarlet and Violet have finally set a new domestic record, they’ve got some distance left to cover over the international market. The most recent Pokemon games have shifted just under 25.7 million copies worldwide, which means they’ve got several million more copies to sell if they want to beat the international figure of 31 million set by the first-generation games.
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