Pokemon Black / White Sells 1.4m Units in the Americas Day 1 - News
by VGChartz Staff , posted on 07 March 2011 / 8,914 ViewsNintendo's latest entry in the Pokemon series, which had an enormous opening in Japan last Fall, has launched to similarly enormous sales in the Americas. VGC data shows the title, across both the Black and White skus, selling 1.4m units day one in the Americas. Figures include DSi systems that were bundled with Pokemon Black / White.
As Pokemon Black / White has sold to over 15% of the 32m strong DS base in Japan, similar penetration in the Americas could result in sales of 7-8m units, if not more, in the Americas. In a mere day of sales however, Pokemon Black / White is already the 12th highest opening of all time in the Americas. Once full week figures come in, Pokemon Black / White should be amongst the top nine openings of all time in the Americas.
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nice work ninteno :)!
What an opening, congratulation Nintendo
and it has 6 days to to go... could well much end up at 2.3 million
@dsage01 their the same game come on.
dsage01: Call of Duty and Halo always has several special editions. So it's absolutely fair to count BW as one game, otherwise you have to split Call of Duty's and Halo's special editions too.
Gotta effin catch em' all.
For 2 games that isn't actually that great! It's more like 700k each day 1
got both versions!!! woot!
white version ftw
That's how a system seller is supposed to sell. It still could had been better!
Me too... Excelent sales!!!... 1.4 in the Americas or only USA???... Remember, Pokémon Red / Blue / Green departed selling much less than that and eventually reached more than 32 million units ...
I contributed to 1 of these! =P
I contributed to 1 of these! =P
Diamond/Pearl opened to 1.36 million week 1 and ended up selling 6 million in Americas. Black/White opened to 50% stronger sales in Japan, lets hope it get's the same attach rate here. Already this is the biggest opening Pokemon in Japan. I hope this dethrowns Super Mario Bros as the biggest DS game of all time.
Well, shit son. Pokémon is on par with crack!
got my 2! :-)
Awesome. But too low IMO
I contributed to (2) of those 1.4 M as well.
SO we could see a lift in DS numbers then, despite 3DS release so soon, DS is doing great numbers!
For a comparison, Diamond/Pearl sold 1.362 million in its first 6 days of sale in Americas. Pokemon Platinum sold 725k in its first 6 days of sale, and Heart Gold/Soul Silver sold 1.032 million in its first 6 days. Black and White should thereby substantially beat the record of any previous Pokemon game for first week, which isn't that shocking really.
I contributed to (2) of those 1.4M. :-)
wow this is 2 games!! why do people count it as one?
so the only people that got the game are the people that preordered it :S 1.4 sounds like ballshit to me..
It has a whole week of data, though. I'd expect it to be about 2m, if not more. This sounds pathetic, :O.
That's great but I don't think it will outsell Pokémon Diamond/Pearl. I say 6 million.
so other then preorders it had no one day buys?