Pokémon Legends: Arceus cumulative unit sales worldwide 2022-2023

Released on January 28, 2022, Pokémon Legends: Arceus sold more than 1.4 million physical launch units in Japan and had reached 14.83 million global unit sales as of March 2023. The latest entry in the long-running Pokémon franchise outsold other recent titles in the series on their launch weekends. This fact is even more impressive because Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a single version game and other Pokémon games usually feature two versions of the same game.Gotta catch em all!The Pokémon gaming series is one of the biggest gaming franchises worldwide with over 440 million games sold as of June 2022. The core games are released in generations, each with different Pokémon, characters, and sometimes new regions. Announced in February 2022 and released in November 2022, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet were the first games of the upcoming ninth Pokémon generation.The original first-generation games, Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Green were released for the Gameboy in 1998 and still hold the top spot as the best-selling Pokémon games of all time. However, the 2019 release of gen 8 games Pokémon Sword and Shield for Nintendo Switch has turned out to be the most popular of the most recent releases in the series. The Sword/Shield game duo is currently ranked second with over 24.27 million game units sold.Pokémon GO – a mobile success storyVirtual Pokémon battles in real-world locations via smartphone? Almost too good to be true and yet Pokémon GO delivered on the highly anticipated concept when it was released in 2016. The augmented reality (AR) game was an instant hit on mobile and still generated over 645 million U.S. dollars in annual in-app purchase revenues in 2022. The game is credited with bringing AR gaming into the mainstream and promoting simple physical exercise but has also been criticized for contributing to accidents as users have not been paying attention to their surroundings while playing.

于2022年1月28日发布的《宝可梦传说：阿尔宙斯》在日本发售实体版超过140万套，截至2023年3月，全球销量已达到1483万套。作为长期运行的宝可梦系列中的最新作品，该游戏在其发售周末的销量超过了系列中其他近期作品。这一成就尤为引人注目，因为《宝可梦传说：阿尔宙斯》仅有一个版本，而其他宝可梦游戏通常提供两个版本。‘捕捉全部宝可梦！’宝可梦游戏系列是全球最大的游戏品牌之一，截至2022年6月，已售出超过4.4亿套游戏。核心游戏以世代为单位发布，每代都有不同的宝可梦、角色，有时还有新的地区。2022年2月宣布并于11月发布的《宝可梦：朱紫》是即将到来的第九代宝可梦游戏的首款作品。最初的第一代游戏《宝可梦 红·蓝·绿》于1998年在Gameboy上发布，至今仍保持着有史以来最畅销的宝可梦游戏的记录。然而，2019年发布的第八代游戏《宝可梦 剑·盾》在任天堂Switch上的发布，却成为了系列中最受欢迎的近期作品。这一游戏组合目前以超过2427万套游戏销量位居第二。宝可梦GO——一款移动端的成功传奇通过智能手机在现实世界中的地点进行虚拟宝可梦战斗？这听起来几乎太过美好而不真实，但《宝可梦GO》在2016年发布时，却实现了这一备受期待的概念。这款增强现实（AR）游戏在移动端一经推出便大受欢迎，并在2022年产生了超过6.45亿美元的年度内购收入。该游戏被誉为将AR游戏带入主流，并促进了简单的体育锻炼，但也受到了批评，因为用户在玩游戏时没有注意到周围的环境。