So, it shipped 390,000 from January to now? I'm curious to know whether it will reach 18M.

They will not leave the HH market because, with their consoles not selling well, HH is their only major source of income.

It easily surpassed your expectations of the franchise from declining by alot. 12mil in less than 6 months must be very impressive for you

No, not by a lot. It actually didn't exceed it yet based on the official numbers - it just met them. As for exceeding by a lot, who knows whether that would happen.

Sooo your not impressed that a game you didn't think would do 12mil LIFETIME, and shipped that in less than 6 months? Wattt? Pokemon XY will keep on rising, its currently around 11.5mil-11.8mil sold (including digital) and it hasn't been out for a year.

All i kno is if i thought a game would sell a #mil lifetime, then it shipped that in 6 months i be eating crow

While, in a vaccum, the numbers are impressive, my original point was that sales of the Pokemon franchises. Of course, a Pokemon game will sell a lot. My prediction of 12M says as much. Sales for the franchise is still down. But, in all honesty, in terms of your predictions, how is the game faring till now?

At least you didn't predict 6-8mil lifetime as a very few predicted here lol.

Yes 18mil is a far stretch now, but the numbers will get closer little by little every week!

After looking at the current trend, i say pokemon xy will have more than 14mil by years end (this meaning shipped+digital), so it should hit 15.5mil-16mil lifetime. Pretty good considering DS userbase is 2-3 times bigger than 3ds when its all said and done

Wow, Lawlight, I actually can agree with you for once.

Tbone's expectations, among others, has shown that X/Y is underperforming the standard that was set.

Oh wow, my prediction from over a year ago. Still XY is beasting for a 44mil console userbase.... And the numbers are still climbing pretty fast