Pokémon Sales Slump To All-Time Low In Japan, Despite Strong Worldwide Performance Of Let's Go

Gotta sell some more.

Nintendo’s latest financial data has revealed Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! has now shifted around 10 million units worldwide. This places these latest entries in the series as the fifth best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch. It's quite an achievement.

As rosy as it might sound for the new Pokémon games, there’s noticeably been a sharp sales dip within Japan based on comparisons made to the sales of previous mainline entries in the series. Pikachu and Eevee have sold just 1.85 million copies in their homeland so far, which equates to around 18.5 percent of worldwide sales. Globally, the latest games are still lagging behind existing releases in terms of overall sales. Here’s how Let’s Go currently compares to existing Pokémon sales in Japan and worldwide:

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