Pokémon Scarlet and Purple have sold 10 million copies in three days: it is the best launch in all of Nintendo’s HISTORY

Scarlet Pokemon Y pokemon purple on Nintendo Switch they have had the best launch in all of Nintendo history. Not from the Switch games, but from the entire history of Nintendo.

The “Pokémon Spain” games have already sold 10 million copies in their first three days. Needless to say, these are absolutely chilling numbers for Pokémon Scarlet and Purple.

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have published it in a press release (via Nintendo Everything). These 10 million correspond to physical and digital sales, worldwide. is the sales figure highest of any Nintendo game in its first three days in all history.

10 million Paldeanos around the world: Pokémon is unstoppable

It seems that the criticism of the game and its controversy over bugs and performance have not scared the players away. Quite the contrary: Pokémon Scarlet and Purple sneaks, with a stroke of the pen, among the best-selling games on Nintendo Switch.

Pokémon Scarlet and Purple easily outpace the releases of other Pokémon games on Switch, including Sword and shield in 2019, which in its first week sold 6 million copies.

In total, Pokémon Sword and Shield sold 25.37 million games. These figures place it as the second best-selling generation of the saga, only behind the original Pokémon Red and Blue, which sold 31.38 million Game Boy cartridges.

At the moment, very, very few games, on any system, can claim to have had such a strong launch. Cyberpunk 2077, for example, sold 13.7 million copies in its first month.

To give you an idea, today Sony has announced that God of War Ragnarok has done the same thing as Pokémon, being the best launch in the history of PlayStation… with 5.1 million copies.

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Pokémon Scarlet and Purple, the best (sold) there will ever be?

Will Pokémon Scarlet and Purple surpass them? It will depend on the performance of the game in the coming months. The Christmas campaign is ahead, but its future is somewhat more uncertain, and if there is a successor to Switch in 2023 or 2024, sales could slow down…

However, its premiere has been absolutely overwhelming, exceeding forecasts. In just three days, for example, it has almost caught up with the most innovative Pokémon Legends Arceus, which despite its good reviews… can’t compete with a new generation and all that that entails: new Pokémon, new starters, legendaries, new region, character, history…

What do you think of the new Pokémon Scarlet and Purple? In our analysis we gave it a 90, because “they capture all the magic of the past and merge it with the improvements of the future, resulting in two fresh installments with very good ideas. The graphics section is still their great weakness, but they shine so brightly in everything else and they are SO special games… that they get our A+.”