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Pricing and censorship complaints be damned: Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen sold over 4m units in six weeks

Eurogamer.net·Dom Peppiatt·24 days ago
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Image credit: Eurogamer We learned quite a lot in Nintendo's latest financial report ; whether it's the fact that Switch 2 sold nearly 20m units in its first year on sale, or the revelation that - in order to hit its projections - Nintendo needs to increase the price of its hardware , we're in fairly unprecedented territory for the company. But one thing remains as reliable as ever, however, and that is that Pokémon is a bankable asset for Nintendo. In the financial report, Nintendo notes that FireRed and LeafGreen have now sold over 4m copies globally within the first six weeks after launch; that's a combined figure, and takes all territories into account. If you want some context, that means the re-releases of the Game Boy Advance games have sold roughly a third of the number the original titles did; official figures peg the GBA titles at 12m. That's not a bad number for a pair of 22-year-old games, now, is it? Profanity filter in action.…

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