Here’s How Much Each Pokémon RPG Sold On Nintendo DS

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Aug 5, 2011 10:00 am

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Nintendo released their annual report today, and included in it were sales numbers for the mainline Pokémon RPGs on Nintendo DS, as of March 2011. We thought our readers might be interested to see these.

The “year” column refers to each game’s American release date. Sales, however, are worldwide:

Title	Year (U.S.)	Sales to date (global)
Pokémon Diamond/Pearl	2007	17.57 million
Pokémon Platinum	2009	7.43 million
Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver	2010	11.90 million
Pokémon Black/White	2011	11.51 million

In a recent issue of Famitsu magazine, The Pokémon Company president, Tsunekazu Ishihara, stated that there are more Pokémon “surprises” planned for the second half of this year, for both Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS. He also talked about his outlook on how to develop 3DS games, emphasizing the importance of online functions.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.