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OTBWY on 27 February 2018
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Barkley said:
OTBWY said:

Unless no Pokemon games get released ever, don't even think about it. In fact, the Switch Pokemon will make the gap considerably wider and will continue to sell over a good amount of time.

Huh? CoD has sold over 275m as of January 2018, since it's launch in 2003. That's an average of around 19m a year. The only pokemon game to sell more then that is red/blue and gold/silver, and pokemon games aren't even released annually.

CoD Average Yearly Sales: ~19m
Pokemon Average Yearly Sales: ~13.6m

Unless another infinity war comes out and kills the franchise, CoD is very likely going to pass pokemon.

Meanwhile GTA is at over 265m currently, and with GTA V selling 85m units and still going strong somehow, with the release of GTA VI it too has a chance of surpassing pokemon.

Like it has been said already, CoD games have been going down sales wise. Meanwhile, Pokemon has the potential to go beyond that. I believe the Switch title will sell better than even Blue and Red. I don't have indicators of it perse, only that a craze like Pokemon Go brings me to that conclusion. I don't know if it can hold it like GTA V and keep selling. However, It is not wise to expect Pokemon to sit like that. Especially not at 13.6m when it does.