What this is
What TPC's count of Pokémon games includes: its November 2017 release announcing 300 million copies shipped carries one note on the figure, saying that shipments include download editions. It counted all Pokémon-related game titles released from February 1996 to November 2017, 76 in all.
How it’s built
- Read from TPC's own release, the original document rather than a press summary.
What we assumed
- The same rule still applies to the count TPC publishes today.TPC has used the same 'cumulative shipments' wording on its figures page since, with no new note, and the 2026 figures page carries no note on the games line.
Sanity check
The release says nothing about free-to-play titles, smartphone apps, bundles or two-game packs; whether those are counted has to be tested against the numbers.
The values
- Value m: 300
- Titles: 76
- Window: Feb 1996 – Nov 2017, all Pokémon-related game software
- Notes on figure: 注1: 出荷本数はダウンロード版を含む
- Other notes: ※掲載は一部ソフトのみ (image caption), ※表中の発売日は、すべて国内発売日です
- Smartphone F2P bundle DoublePack note: none
Where it comes from
The line in the source
ポケモン関連ゲームソフトの出荷本数が世界累計3億本を突破（注1）… 注１：出荷本数はダウンロード版を含む。… 集計の対象となったのは、1996年2月から2017年11月までに発売された、ポケモン関連ゲームソフトの全タイトル