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Yoshi648 · #1 March 25, 2011, 01:38:43 PM

From Nintendo of America's Twitter account:

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Thanks, Pokémon fans! You helped the Pokémon Black and Pokémon White Version games hit the 2 million sales mark in just 2 weeks!

After doing some math, that comes out to approximately 100 copies of the game sold each minute! And people say Pokémon is dead.

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LucarioMario · #2 March 25, 2011, 01:48:22 PM

Wow. 100 copies per minute. o_o I wonder how this'll compare with other bestselling video games.

zsaberslash · #3 March 25, 2011, 02:31:38 PM

So that's about a copy per second? Blimey. (It's around 1 and 2/3 per second but

)

SK · #4 March 25, 2011, 02:40:25 PM

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Originally Posted by zsaberslash

So that's about a copy per second? Blimey. (It's around 1 and 2/3 per second but

)

Yep, they sell 1 copy and then 2/3 of a copy every second o3o

"What the hell, this is only 2/3 of a box!"

But yeah it's pretty awesome that they've sold so many games. Good to know Pokemon is still going REALLY strong.

Kirby-Chan · #5 March 25, 2011, 03:16:37 PM

That's a lot of Pokemon games sold in just 2 weeks. <(o.o)>

Looks like Pokemon will be a franchise that last for many years and people thought Pokemon is a fad.

Shadow · #6 March 26, 2011, 01:51:02 AM

The main reason behind these record-breaking sales in my opinion is that Pokémon Black and White are attracting a wider target audience, not just kids, which is different from the previous titles. I'm sure that the new, fresh start is something that fans were heavily anticipating, not to mention the various other features which give the games a more 'grown-up feel' to them.

So really, due to the innovation of Game Freak/Nintendo, Pokémon will continue to reign as a world-class franchise unbeatable by any other franchises, even after 15 years. To more success, Pokémon!

Aquablast · #7 March 26, 2011, 05:58:12 AM

This is awesome.

The Spirit of Time · #8 March 26, 2011, 06:05:38 AM

I am impressed. I can truly say that these two games deserve all this success.

JC · #9 March 26, 2011, 06:42:05 AM

I agree with Spirit and Shadow here, in fact what happens near the end of the main game story. I'm not going to say.

Also these games should have been rated for much older audiences from what I've found... but that's another story.

RotomGuy · #10 March 26, 2011, 07:32:27 AM

Nice title 8)
But seriously, 1 2/3 copies a second? WTF??
Very successful Nintendo, very successful.