How it’s built
- Took the launch month of each big release from The Pokémon Company’s own timeline.
- Placed each month in the company’s March-to-February year and its quarter. For example, Scarlet/Violet (November 2022) falls in the year to February 2023.
- Listed the complete years from 2020 to 2026 with no new main-series game: the years to February 2021, 2024 and 2025.
What we assumed
- TCG Pocket and Pokémon Champions are counted alongside main-series games as big launches.Both are major releases on the company’s timeline, but neither is a main-series game; they are labelled as such so readers can drop them.
- Launches are placed by month only.Month is enough to fix the financial year and quarter. Remakes on the company’s game list are not dated by month here and are left out.
Sanity check
Since X/Y in 2013, every big launch except Legends: Arceus (January 2022) came in September to November, so holiday sales fall in the same company year as the launch.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- e.g
- 2022-01 -> FY2/22 (Mar 2021-Feb 2022), PY3/22
- 2022-11 -> FY2/23, PY3/23
- 2025-10 -> FY2/26, PY3/26
Related figures
Built from this one