What this is
Total copies of all Pokémon-related software sold worldwide as of 29 February 2016: more than 279 million.
How it’s built
- Read from 4Gamer.net, a Japanese games news site, which reproduced The Pokémon Company’s release: “cumulative sales of all Pokémon-related software are 279 million or more”.
What we assumed
- “279 million or more” is used as the value.The release gives only a floor.
Sanity check
It sits between the company’s about 275 million (March 2015) and over 280 million (May 2016), as it should.
The value
- 27,900 10k units (2億7900万本以上)
Where it comes from
The line in the source
すべてのポケモン関連ソフトの累計販売本数（※2）は、2億7900万本以上となっております。 Related figures
The same measure, other periods