What this is
Total copies of all Pokémon-related software sold worldwide as of November 2017: more than 300 million.
How it’s built
- Read from The Pokémon Company’s Japanese corporate data page, as archived by the Internet Archive: “as of November 2017, cumulative sales of all Pokémon-related software: over 300 million worldwide”.
What we assumed
- “Over 300 million” is used as the value.The page gives only a floor.
Sanity check
The company’s own announcement that month called the same 300 million “shipments”, so “sales” here means copies sold to retailers, not to players.
Where it comes from
Japanese-language document, 2017 The Pokémon Company (Wayback capture of corporate site) · 28 November 2017 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
（2017年11月現在） ・すべてのポケモン関連ソフトの累計販売数：全世界で3億本以上 [gloss: all Pokémon-related software cumulative SALES count: over 300 million worldwide] Related figures
The same measure, other periods