Pokemon Scarlet and Violet become the third Pokemon RPGs to hit 25 million sales, surpassed only by Sword and Shield and the classics
Aug. 2, 2024More and more Pokemon trainers have been diving into the open-world RPGs
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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet continue to sell exceptionally well, as they’ve just become the third Pokemon games to hit 25 million sales.
The ninth-generation Pokemon games may have generated mixed reactions from the fanbase thanks toperformance issuesandbugs, but it’s clear that Pokemon trainers everywhere were still hungry to embark on the open-world RPG. That’s understandable, of course – Pokemon Legends: Arceus gave us our first taste of an open-world Pokemon adventure, and Scarlet and Violet took things a step further, allowing us to take on Gym Battles in any order and traverse the region as we see fit, and that’s been reflected in its sales figures.
On top of that, the webmaster of Pokemon news site Serebii, Joe Merrick,reportsthat Scarlet and Violet have been the fastest Pokemon games to hit this 25 million milestone. It’s now been a year and eight months since they launched, whereas it took Sword and Shield “just under three years” to hit the same sales figures, with them having reached 21.85 million after around a year and seven months. Does that mean that the Paldea-region games will eventually be able to overtake the Galar-region RPGs? It’s impossible to know at this point, but the pace of their sales is definitely promising.
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