Pokemon X/Y tops 1 million preorders!

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pezus said:

As I said in the COMG thread:

I'd argue that it doesn't make sense in Japan only
It does make sense WW when looking at all pre-order numbers we have: USA and COMG. It's going to grow a lot from here, probably to 2-3m pre-orders WW, translating to 4.5m+ FW...

Really, I think there's no way this is Japan only.

In case you missed Kresnik's post in that thread:

"COMG Pokemon preorders = 1369

Masuda's Pokemon preorders = 1,000,000.

Using the usual 1 point = 1k pre-orders point that we use as a general rule around here:

1369 * 1000 = 1,369,000

I'm not sure I understand what's being argued here."

 

COMG data actually suggests that Pokémon is indeed over 1m in Japan alone. Let's say the 1m is for the whole world, then Japanese pre-orders should be at ~500k. That leaves us with 1 pt/365pre-orders, which is quite low. In comparison Pokémon Black/White ended with 3400pts and did 2.8m in it's first week in Japan. That's a ratio of 1/823.