There were double packs in America as well. I have no idea what the numbers are though. I wouldn't be surprised it if was 10-15% though.  I swear I must know the like 6 most hardcore Nintendo fans on the planet and it's skewing my perspective on hardcore Nintendo fans. I literally know four people that automatically buy both Pokemon games the day they come out, on release every single time. They also own 3-4 DSs and 3DS each. One of them even imported the PAL SNES edition 3DS.

I'm sure some people buy both versions but I can't see it being a large amount. I know a large amount of Pokemon fans varying from casual to more hardcore and i don't know a single person that buys both versions. I know some that skip the initial release and wait for the third version.

Yeah, that's not a bad idea. I wonder how longer before they come out with joycons with graphics on them. I want me some Super Famicom joycons.

Well this is a sales thread on a sales site, personal preferences really dont matter.

Come on now. Every release, they give players the choice to buy a pack that comes with both versions of the game. 

Yep thats why i said the double packs are probably over 500k WW if Japan is ~200k.

You work in the industry so isnt it possible that your friends would be more on the hardcore side than the average consumer?

Edit: just saw your edit, ya im pretty sure Nintendo counts double packs as two sales, i know Famitsu does at least.

Yeah, they are/were game developers as well. But I think they might be more hardcore than the average hardcore Nintendo fan. Like, "taking Japanese in university so you can play Japanese import games and understand them" hardcore.

But just to be overabundantly clear, I honestly don't know how well these dual packs sell, or what percentage of Pokemon owners buy both copies, but it's clearly enough for Nintendo themselves to release Dual Packs, so Nintendo probably has a pretty great idea.

Sure they arent done selling and more are coming but at the same time not all of those 3DS games listed are up to date and doesnt include games that shipped less than 1 million in a single fiscal year.

If a game isnt in the top 10 or ship 1 million in a single fiscal year it does not get updated or show up at all. For example if a game ships 800k in the first year, 300k in the 2nd and 100k in the 3rd, it wouldnt ever show up in their fiscal reports. Or if a game does 1.7m in the 1st, 600k in the 2nd and 200k in the 3rd, it would not be updated higher than 1.7m unless it was in the top 10 of the system.

You are adding a couple million to each PS4 game after the last update but acting as if 3DS games just stopped selling years ago.

A) You can call it a 17M seller if you want, but it's not "at Ninty level" if it can't do it on only one platform.

B) We combine Silver/Gold and the other Pokémon games because they are the same game on the same platform.

You don't seem to think that adding another platform matters.  It does in fact matter a lot.

And yeah, Switch did those number of sales in just 2 years comparred to Sony, but PS4 has in the future Ghost of Tsushima, another TLOU in part II, and i'm pretty confident Days Gone will surprise in terms of sales. We are not comparing Nintendo and Sony how they were 5, 10, o 15 years ago, because Nintendo had the upper hand easily, we are talking in 2018 and inmediate future . Nintendo have Mario 2D and 3D, Pokemon, Zelda, Smash, Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Mario Party, Splatoon, Donkey Kong Country as huge sellers and Sony have TLOU, Uncharted, God of War, Horizon, Gran Turismo, Spiderman and most probably (but if you don't want to count them i'm fine) Ghosts of Tsushima and Days Gone. Look, I'm not saying Sony surpassed Nintendo by any means, I'm still think Nintendo is the bigger software company in the world, but now Sony is closing the gap, and they can be actually compared as this topic is a proof of it.

By reaching "Nintendo levels" is just to say, that Sony now have more than 5 franchises that can be compared to the biggest franchises in terms of sales, nothing more, nothing less, but yeah, Nintendo is still number one.

That's what I am trying to say since the very beginning. Fist bump.

The double standard is really high here. tsk.. tsk.. It's okay for you to add Pokemon version but I can't. 
As someone has said it's 2 version of the same game.

X is same as Y but yet they are still different. You cannot get Xerneas if you bought Y unless you wait for someone to trade it to you. You cannot have the Mega evolution of Charizard and mewtwo from X if you bought Y. There's exclusive Pokemon from X and Y too.