Second-fiscal-year tabled units and ratio to launch-year units, by title, year to March 2008-year to March 2024

What this is

Second-FY rows of divided by launch-FY rows; tests the so_what claim that 'DLC years carried the largest second-year tails'. They did not: HGSS and B/W (no DLC) exceed Scarlet/Violet in both absolute and ratio terms.

The values

• Sword/Shield year to March 2021: 3.73 (0.215 of 17.37) paid DLC
• HeartGold/SoulSilver year to March 2011: 3.50 (0.417 of 8.40) no DLC
• Black/White year to March 2012: 3.20 (0.278 of 11.51) no DLC
• Scarlet/Violet year to March 2024: 2.82 (0.128 of 22.10) paid DLC
• Legends: Arceus year to March 2023: 2.19 (0.173 of 12.64) no paid DLC
• ORAS year to March 2016: 1.90 (0.191 of 9.94)

Some detail is too fine to show here; it is kept in the trainer’s notes.

Where it comes from

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

• FiledShare of each year’s Pokémon units in Nintendo’s million-seller tables that came from older titles, years to March 2007–20261.87–5.04 million