Is not like only because is Pokémon it will always sells billions. A third version (or two new version of the same game like Black/White2) never sold as good as usual Pokémon games. USUM was not gonna be different.

They sold very well and in fact could probably even be the top game of 2017 if released now.

But it doesn't matter, those are on different systems and released a long time ago.

The point is that the 3rd version or direct sequels of mainline Pokemon games have traditionally sold like 40-50% of the original pair.

But they always sold way less than the rispective game.

[2010] Pokémon White/Black = 4.966.737 (first week 2.557.779)
[2012] Pokémon White2/Black2 = 2.919.977 (first week 1.561.738) / Drop = 41% yearly ; 39% first week

[2006] Pokémon Diamont/Pearl = 4.361.495  ( 1.588.734 first week )
[2008] Pokémon Platinum = 2.231.765  (first week 963.273) / Drop = 49% yearly ; 39% first week

Pokémon MS sold 3.25 million in 2016 at retail... use a similar drop that the third version (or 2 new version of the same game) of Pokémon had, and you can see how Pokémon USUM never had a chance to become the best selling game of the year, not when Dragon Quest sold over 2 million only the first week.

I know this, but 50% of a ton of sales is still significant. Right now it is not trending towards that, but who knows. IIRC Pokemon Sun and Moon is over 3.8m.

Being honest, I expected lower sales of DQXI for both PS4 and 3DS versions from the start. So I expected Pokemon to be a contender, but clearly not the case. However my original post realized this and highlights the fact that it wont even be close to the top Nintendo game of the year like one would expect of pokemon. And like I said above, it isn't trending to be 50% of S&M atm.

S/M did about 3.3 million in 2016 so following the 40-50% trend would be about 1.5 million give or take for US/UM in 2017.

Even if Dragon Quest only had a 1.5 million first week, which should have been easy the worst scenario, it was still clearly gonna outsell Pokémon, expecially considering Pokémon will only account for less than 2 months of the year compared to half year of DQ.

Oh, this, and also the fact that Splatoon 2 was underrated as fuck, but well what i have to say, i always expected insane performance for Spaltoon 2, sooooo yeah it was never impossible for Splatoon 2 to outsell Pokémon USUM this year... will be a very close one.

Oh, and for the COMG perfore, right there is expected for Pokémon USUM to have a better ratio compared to USUM, first because COMG ratio become better every year, and second, because this time the double pack has a way bigger ratio. The drop won't be as hard as COMG show.

Oh, Xenoblade 2's standard edition it out of the chart ;_;
Pokemon US/UM finally doing like a Pokemon game should be doing on its last days.

Pokémon killed it. I think breaking into the 700p will be a good finish for such an under-hyped Pokémon game.

I wish Xenoblade started picking up pace though :'c