{"id":79800,"date":"2019-02-02T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/pokemon_sales_slump_to_all-time_low_in_japan_despite_strong_worldwide_performance_of_lets_go"},"modified":"2019-02-02T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T01:10:00","slug":"pokemon-sales-slump-to-all-time-low-in-japan-despite-strong-worldwide-performance-of-lets-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/pokemon-sales-slump-to-all-time-low-in-japan-despite-strong-worldwide-performance-of-lets-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Sales Slump To All-Time Low In Japan, Despite Strong Worldwide Performance Of Let’s Go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nintendo\u2019s latest financial data<\/a> has revealed Pok\u00e9mon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let\u2019s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong> has now shifted around 10 million units worldwide. This places these latest entries in the series as the fifth best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch. It’s quite an achievement.<\/p>\n

As rosy as it might sound for the new Pok\u00e9mon games, there\u2019s noticeably been a sharp sales dip within Japan based on comparisons made to the sales of previous mainline entries in the series. Pikachu and Eevee have sold just 1.85 million copies in their homeland so far, which equates to around 18.5 percent of worldwide sales. Globally, the latest games are still lagging behind existing releases in terms of overall sales. Here\u2019s how Let\u2019s Go currently compares to existing Pok\u00e9mon sales in Japan and worldwide:<\/p>\n

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Game : Sales in Japan \/ Sales worldwide \/ Percentage<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Pok\u00e9mon Diamond and Pearl: 5.82 million \/ 17.67 million \/ 32.9%
Pok\u00e9mon Black and White: 5.49 million \/ 15.64 million \/ 35.1%
Pok\u00e9mon X and Y: 4.55 million \/ 16.37 million \/ 27.8%
Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Moon: 3.91 million \/ 16.14 million \/ 24.2%
Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu and Eevee: 1.85 million \/ 10 million \/ 18.5%<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What\u2019s not necessarily in consideration here is the size of the current Switch userbase when making comparisons to past games released on more established systems as well as the short time frame the new games have been available. The fact these newest releases are not being classed as the next mainline<\/a> entries in the series – even though The Pok\u00e9mon Company says otherwise – doesn’t help, either. Of course, the sales of these new games will no doubt increase over time in Japan and around the world, so be on the lookout for more updates in the future.<\/p>\n

Do you think the sales reception to Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go in Japan is anything to be concerned about? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo\u2019s latest financial data has revealed Pok\u00e9mon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let\u2019s Go, Eevee! has now shifted around 10 million units worldwide. This places these latest entries in the series as the fifth best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch. It’s quite an achievement. As rosy as it might sound for the new Pok\u00e9mon games, there\u2019s […]<\/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-79800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79800","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=79800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}