Over 155 Million Pokemon Games Sold Worldwide

After reporting the massive success with Wii- which sold more than 5.84 million units in less than 6 months- Nintendo announced that more than 1 million copies of Pokemon for DS have been sold in the US in less than a week.

So the fact that Nintendo reports a new success with its Pokemon franchise doesn’t surprise anyone. It’s quite a usual thing lately for the Kyoto-based giant to produce revolutionary products (e.g. Nintendo Wii’s code-name was Revolution) that immediately attract customers of all ages.

Pokemon is no exception. In the US, more than 1 million copies of Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl for the Nintendo DS were sold in less than 5 days of availability. Consumers rushed to snap-up their own copy of the game at an amazing rate (almost 200,000 copies per day!), setting a record for any Pokemon game sold until now in North America.

The recent success boosts Pokemon’s worldwide popularity to outstanding levels, more than 155 million copies having been sold to date.

But that doesn’t stop here: Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl are also on track of becoming US’ top selling games in 2007. More than one half million people pre-ordered the games before launch. Additionally, thousands of people attended the kickoff launch event in New York, and demand for the games continues to be off the charts.

The million in the US is a completion of the more than 5 million Pokemon games already sold in Japan since September 28, 2006.