Pokemon Lets Go Was The Fastest Selling Game In Japan During November 2018

Recently the video game sales data from last month in Japan (November 2018) has started to come in and has revealed some interesting information!

The recorded sales are during the period of October 29th to November 25th.

Check out the list below:

• 01./00 [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} (¥ 5.980) – 821.892 / New

• 02./00 [PS4] Battlefield V <ACT> (Electronic Arts) {2018.11.20} (¥ 7,800) – 98.105 / New

• 03./02. [NSW] Super Mario Party # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} (¥ 5,980) – 84,497 / 347,598  (-68%)

• 04./01 [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII <ACT> (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.10.12} (¥ 7,900) – 75,329 / 451,470  (-80%)

• 05./00 [PS4] Fallout 76 # <RPG> (Bethesda Softworks) {2018.11.15} (¥ 7.980) – 72.506 / New

 

As we can see, Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu and Lets Go Eevee managed to top the charts in Japan that month! The game also managed to out sell huge third party titles such as Battlefield V, Black Ops 4, Fallout 76 and even Super Mario Party!

This means The Pokemon Company sold more games during November than Nintendo as we can see here:

1. Pokemon Co. – 844.000

2. Nintendo – 326.000

3. Sony Interactive Entertainment – 129.000

 

The Nintendo Switch console itself also dominated the sales that month with it selling 388,000 units which is twice as many sold in October! This means the sales increased by 223.5% which was likely because of the release of a new Pokemon game as the series is very big in Japan.

Hopefully Nintendo will manage to meet their target of 20 million Nintendo Switch units by the end of this financial year as we reported on earlier here.

If we have any more information to share we will cover it here at Nintendo Soup so stay tuned for more!