Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sold 4.05 million copies in Japan in their first three days on sale, per a November 2022 release

How it’s built

1. Read from the joint Nintendo and Pokémon Company sales release. Its credits give The Pokémon Company as publisher, Nintendo as seller and Game Freak as maker in Japan.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The release came from both companies, not Nintendo alone. Whether Nintendo books Japanese sales as principal or agent is not stated.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

うち国内販売本数405万本

Where it’s used

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