{"id":63342,"date":"2018-11-19T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/pokemon_letrs_go_pikachu_and_eevee_combined_launch_sales_give_new_entries_strong_start_in_the_uk"},"modified":"2018-11-19T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T01:30:00","slug":"pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-eevee-combined-launch-sales-give-new-entries-strong-start-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/19\/pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-and-eevee-combined-launch-sales-give-new-entries-strong-start-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go Pikachu and Eevee Combined Launch Sales Give New Entries Strong Start In The UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5763b663a485\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5763b663a485\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"POKEBALLPLUS\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5763b663a485\/pokeballplus.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b5763b663a485\/pokeballplus.900x.jpg\" alt=\"POKEBALLPLUS\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The latest Nintendo Switch releases <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu! and Let\u2019s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong> appear to have performed reasonably well in the UK charts. According to sales data, Pikachu is the most popular version of the game locally, taking out fourth place, with Eevee following in the sixth spot. These combined sales technically put the new Pok\u00e9mon entries in the top position, with a total of 116,000 physical copies reportedly sold so far.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this seemingly positive start, compared to the original <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_sun_and_moon\">Sun and Moon<\/a><\/strong> games, sales are down by more than 60 percent and are also recorded as being five percent lower than the figures for the 2013 release <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_x_and_y\">Pok\u00e9mon X &amp; Y<\/a><\/strong>. Fortunately, it\u2019s not as bad as it sounds, with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2018-11-18-pok-mon-and-spyro-top-hyper-competitive-week-at-uk-games-retail\">Game Industry<\/a> explaining how certain factors need to be taken into consideration. Leading up to the release, the UK had stock issues resulting in fewer than expected units available at launch \u2013 ultimately leading to pre-orders not being fulfilled and many other stores selling out of the games completely. At the time of X and Y\u2019s launch, the 3DS also had a much larger install base than the Switch currently does.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at how Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go UK launch sales compare to existing releases:<\/p>\n<p>[Week 21, 2009] POK\u00c9MON PLATINUM (NINTENDO) &#8211; 59,000 \/ NEW<br \/>[Week 12, 2010] POK\u00c9MON HEARTGOLD \/ SOULSILVER (NINTENDO) &#8211; 90,000 \/ NEW<br \/>[Week 09, 2011] POK\u00c9MON BLACK \/ WHITE (NINTENDO) ~ 125,000 &#8211; 144,000 \/ NEW<br \/>[Week 41, 2012] POK\u00c9MON BLACK 2 \/ WHITE 2 (NINTENDO) &#8211; 62,000 \/ NEW<br \/>[Week 41, 2013] POK\u00c9MON X \/ Y (NINTENDO) &#8211; 124,000 \/ NEW<br \/>[Week 48, 2014] POK\u00c9MON OMEGA RUBY \/ ALPHA SAPPHIRE (NINTENDO) &#8211; 145,000 \/ NEW<br \/>[Week 47, 2016] POK\u00c9MON SUN \/ MOON (NINTENDO) &#8211; 290,000 \/ NEW<br \/>[Week 46, 2017] POK\u00c9MON ULTRA SUN \/ ULTRA MOON (NINTENDO) &#8211; 78,000 \/ NEW<br \/>[Week 46, 2018] POK\u00c9MON LET&#8217;S GO, PIKACHU! +POK\u00c9MON LET&#8217;S GO, EEVEE! (NINTENDO) &#8211; 116,000 \/ NEW<\/p>\n<p>Over in the US, NPD Analyst Mat Piscatella has said there is plenty of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatPiscatella\/status\/1064174777667997696\">positivity and optimism<\/a> surrounding the launch of Let\u2019s Go, which is a \u201cbit of a relief\u201d as it is arguably the most important launch of the year for the Switch. These new Pok\u00e9mon games are also expected to appeal to a much wider audience because of the friendly and accessible design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Nintendo Switch releases Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu! and Let\u2019s Go, Eevee! appear to have performed reasonably well in the UK charts. According to sales data, Pikachu is the most popular version of the game locally, taking out fourth place, with Eevee following in the sixth spot. These combined sales technically put the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}