After the reports of sell-outs of Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver looks like Nintendo really can't offer enough Pokemon in the first week, let's see others numbers

Here are the games with a >90% sellthrouth (m-create):



System / Title / Publisher / Release date / Weekly sales / Days on sale / Shipment sellthrough

DS / Pokemon Diamond / Pokemon / 28/09/06 / 820.047 / 4 / 97,12

DS / Pokemon Pearl / Pokemon / 28/09/06 / 768.687 / 4 / 96,16

GBA / Pokemon Fire Red / Pokemon / 29/01/04 / 517.874 / 4 / 96,01

PSP / Monster Hunter Freedom Unite / Capcom / 27/03/08 / 880.468 / 4 / 95,83

PS3 / Demon's Souls / SCE / 05/02/09 / 39.689 / 4 / 95,21

Wii / Super Smash Bros. Brawl / Nintendo / 31/01/08 / 819.647 / 4 / 94,37

PSP / Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Sega / 02/07/09 / 101.414 / 4 / 93,69

DS / Infinite Space / Sega / 11/06/09 / 38.394 / 4 / 92,14

GBA / Pokemon Emerald / Pokemon / 16/09/04 / 790.527 / 4 / 91,37

DS / Final Fantasy III / Square Enix / 24/08/06 / 503.051 / 4 / 91,00

DS / Pokemon Platinum / Pokemon / 13/09/08 / 963.273 / 2 / 90,72

PSP / Monster Hunter Freedom 2 / Capcom / 22/02/07 / 705.281 / 4 / 90,29

Like you can tell every mainline Pokemon game since FireRed had been undershipped and it still is until now

What do you think about?

The new Pokemon Silver/Gold games are bundled with the PokeWalker (pedometer thingy), which is why the game was undershipped. Nintendo must produce one of those for every copy of the game that they ship out.

nintendo should have known to get at least 10 mil of them ready :o

Because there is no precedent for the sales that pokemon experiences in japan. Forget DQ and FF, pokemon owns japan.