Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have grow to be the collection’ best-selling video games of all time in Japan, beating out the earlier record-holder for the primary time in many years.
In accordance with a Famitsu report (for which we’re utilizing machine translation), Scarlet and Violet have offered over 8.3 million copies between them in Japan, which suggests they’ve formally offered greater than the unique Pokemon Crimson and Inexperienced (since Japan’s sport was Inexperienced reasonably than Blue).
Till this second, these unique video games held the file for Japan’s best-selling Pokemon video games, and given simply how a lot of a phenomenon Pokemon was when it first arrived, that is no imply feat.
It is price noting that these gross sales figures do solely apply to Japan, so Scarlet and Violet might nicely not be the best-selling Pokemon video games elsewhere on the planet.
Nonetheless, given the massive success of the Nintendo Swap and the sky-high gross sales numbers of Scarlet and Violet all over the world, I would not be shocked if the latest video games have been additionally the best-selling in different areas.
Usually talking, mainline Pokemon video games are launched each three years or so, and since Scarlet and Violet launched in 2022, we will maybe anticipate an announcement concerning the subsequent main Pokemon video games quickly.
It is doubtless, although, that Nintendo will wait till the successor to the Swap is introduced. We’re anticipating information on that entrance someday earlier than April 2025, so the brand new Pokemon video games could be revealed alongside the console.
That announcement appears particularly more likely to coincide with the Swap 2’s provided that Pokemon Scarlet and Violet met with criticism at launch concerning their lackluster efficiency on Swap.
They are not the one video games in that individual firing line, both. Plainly devs could also be avoiding releasing video games on the Swap owing to its growing old internals, so a successor would presumably enhance issues on that entrance, not only for Pokemon however throughout the board.
Nonetheless, since it has been confirmed that the Nintendo Swap 2 (or regardless of the console finally ends up being referred to as) shall be backwards appropriate, maybe there will be some kind of efficiency enhance for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet on that entrance. We are able to however hope.
You may take a look at Pokemon Scarlet and Violet proper now on Nintendo Swap. A DLC pack, The Treasure of Space Zero, which contains two additional story episodes, can also be obtainable now.