Total copies of all Pokémon-related video games shipped worldwide as of 31 March 2023

What this is

Total copies of all Pokémon-related video games shipped worldwide as of 31 March 2023: over 480 million.

How it’s built

1. Read from The Pokémon Company’s Japanese “Pokémon in Figures” page, as archived by the Internet Archive in June 2023.

What we assumed

• “Over 480 million” is used as the value.The page gives only a floor.

Sanity check

Up 40 million in the year Scarlet/Violet launched, though Nintendo alone reported 22 million copies of that title.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

全ポケモン関連ゲームソフトの 累計出荷本数 4億 8,000万本以上

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