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>Seventh generation
>The seventh generation consists of Pokemon Sun and Moon. Due to the preceding hype built by a Superbowl Commercial, re-releases of the original games on digital storefronts, and Pokemon Go, it surpassed Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire as Nintendo's most preordered game. In November 2016, the games have sold 3.7 million in the Americas and 1.5 million in Europe, becoming Nintendo's fastest seller titles ever. With Japanese numbers, the games sold about 7.5 million copies in 2 weeks. In the United States, by December 2016, the game had sold 4.5 million copies, making it the fastest Nintendo game to reach 4 million. As of December 31, 2016, the game has shipped 14.69 million copies, already outselling Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
So the last full releases, S/M, sold 4.5 million during the first month in the US and 14.69 worldwide
. And in a similar amount of time, LGPE has sold ~2 million in the US for the first month, and I don't know worldwide number, but apparently it's not selling well in Japan.
People can try to rationalize this by saying "it's a spinoff" even though Masuda has said they're main entries, but whatever. I think this is good news because hopefully it sends a message to GF that people prefer new games and new content rather than dumbed-down kantooo pandering
