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Share of each year’s Pokémon units in Nintendo’s million-seller tables that came from older titles, years to March 2007–2026

1.87–5.04 million Year to March 2007-year to March 2026

FiledArithmetic on Nintendo’s filed tables; the share depends on the cut-off.

What this is

Share of each year’s Pokémon units in Nintendo’s million-seller tables that came from older titles, years to March 2007–2026: from 0% to 88%; 8.9% in the year to March 2026.

How it’s built

  1. Took every Pokémon row in Nintendo’s million-seller table each year.
  2. Counted a title as older if first released anywhere before that year; remakes count as new.
  3. Divided: for example 1.48 of 16.68 million in the year to March 2026.

What we assumed

  • A missing title sold under 1 million, not zero.So the 0% years understate older titles.
  • Games launched in Japan a year early count as older in their Western launch year.This inflates some early years.

Sanity check

Years with no new title (to March 2021, 2024 and 2025) show 100% by construction. Download-only titles are excluded.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

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  1. FY3/07 6.41/11.62 = 0.5516
  2. FY3/08 11.92/13.50 = 0.8830
  3. FY3/09 6.46/10.21 = 0.6327
  4. FY3/10 3.30/13.10 = 0.2519
  5. FY3/11 3.50/15.01 = 0.2332
  6. FY3/12 3.20/4.28 = 0.7477
  7. FY3/13 0.00/7.81 = 0.0000
  8. FY3/14 0.00/12.26 = 0.0000
  9. FY3/15 1.59/11.53 = 0.1379
  10. FY3/16 1.90/3.12 = 0.6090

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