It is well known that Pokémon video games are some of the best sellers on Nintendo consoles, and in the last year the franchise has done very well on the Nintendo Switch, because if we combine the sales of all its deliveries they reach more than 34 million units sold.
Nintendo updated its video game and console sales data taking into account until March 31, 2022, and recorded very good sales in its most popular series. The last Pokémon game to hit the market was Pokémon Legends: Arceuswhich in three months managed to sell 12.64 million units.
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In November of last year we saw the launch of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearlremakes of the deliveries that came to the Nintendo DS in 2007, and in the five months after its release they managed to reach an incredible number of 14.65 million units.
The first main installments of the franchise that came to Nintendo Switch were Pokémon Sword & Shield, which in the last year sold 3.18 million units, bringing the total of this generation to 24.27 million. Pokemon Let’s GO Pikachu! and Pokémon Let’s GO Eevee!, the remakes of the first deliveries that arrived in 2018, sold 1.25 million.
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By last, Pokemon Snapwhich arrived in April of last year, has sold 2.40 million copies in its first year, bringing the total sales of Pokémon video games on Nintendo Switch to 34.12 millionfrom April 2021 to March 2022.