Pokemon B/W sold 2.63M in 2 days

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fwap on 21 September 2010

Considering it was still limited by being sold out several places 1st week I wonder what the 2nd week sales will be?

Will this game outsell the original's LTD sales?

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ChrisIsNotSexy on 21 September 2010

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The sell-outs are the reason why our preview was off. Pre-orders were at just over 2m before the game released but our data was actually showing lower sales than pre-orders. Obviously not all stores had the same issues which is why a more realistic (based on pre-orders) 2.5m were sold.

Massively impressive - best selling week one EVER in Japan. I can see this doing 7-8m.

Does it have a chance at having the best selling week one EVER WW?

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But I thought that gaming in Japan was dying =P ? Next up MHP3. Not going to do Pokemon numbers probably but something near 2 million would be amazing.

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Carl on 21 September 2010

ioi said:

The sell-outs are the reason why our preview was off. Pre-orders were at just over 2m before the game released but our data was actually showing lower sales than pre-orders. Obviously not all stores had the same issues which is why a more realistic (based on pre-orders) 2.5m were sold.

Massively impressive - best selling week one EVER in Japan. I can see this doing 7-8m.

Any predictions for NA/EMEAA week 1 sales?

Could it even top Diamond/Pearl lifetime?

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--OkeyDokey-- on 21 September 2010

ioi said:

Carl2291 said:

ioi said:

The sell-outs are the reason why our preview was off. Pre-orders were at just over 2m before the game released but our data was actually showing lower sales than pre-orders. Obviously not all stores had the same issues which is why a more realistic (based on pre-orders) 2.5m were sold.

Massively impressive - best selling week one EVER in Japan. I can see this doing 7-8m.

Any predictions for NA/EMEAA week 1 sales?

Could it even top Diamond/Pearl lifetime?

I think it will be more frontloaded but yeah I don't see why not. It will definitely beat Diamond / Pearl week 1 worldwide - already ahead by 1 million in Japan and could pull another 500k or so ahead in NA / EMEAA maybe? Could get VERY close to the 360 version of MW2 for the overall week 1 record

But it will soon have Black Ops' (360) week 1 record to contend with :D

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smbu2000 on 21 September 2010

Amazing numbers, especially since it's only 2 days of sales! Most games launch on Thursdays in Japan, but Pokemon games launch on Saturdays. (DQ games also come out on Saturdays.)

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