>>46095284>why are you only counting Japan when we've been talking about worldwide tho?Because I mentioned hard regional numbers and Japan is the only one to actively give such numbers to my knowledge. Plus Japan is the home market for Pokemon and like it or not their input will have far more weight than ours, inherently.
>also I'd argue digital sales in 3DS didn't really have a massive boost until the middle of its life and according to the IR report it's in Switch's later years did they actually saw a massive boost"Massive" is relative when you're talking a boost on a platform during its successor's life. Can't say for Pokemon but I know a lot of people bought Smash digitally on the 3DS. Can't imagine Pokemon did much worse.
>But at this point Pokemon is beyond video games.You really want to get into that discussion? Because beyond video games Pokemon is kinda trash save for one or two places. Merch sales are merch sales, I guess.
>>46095303See, I was thinking China might be a deciding factor, though 50% of SWSH's sales is an asinine estimate. I was thinking maybe just the difference between SWSH's numbers and SM's more than anything.
But some googling shows that's false, the Switch is just now hitting 1m units shipped in mainland China, there's no way SWSH has sold anything close to those numbers there.
Unless they're all being imported from HK.
>>46095332That was for Hong Kong, gen VII did not officially release in mainland China. CCP is VERY strict about what games they allow into their country.
