6th Gen Pokemon X and Y KILLED it in Japan..

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    Over 2 million copies were sold in Japan!!

    Compared to GTA V--a top seller right now in the US--only 360,000 were sold on the PS3 in Japan...

    Pokemon!!! Yerrr!!!

    I have both games but I think I'm more hooked on Pokemon when I'm by myself. I'll play that for hours until the battery runs out.
     
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    i play pokemon x more then GTA 5 lol i havent play pokemon game sense Gen 3
     
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    All hail Pokemon! {XD}
    Congratulations to the GF crew!
    Please continue to create great games for many years to come!
    [PokeCommunity.com] Pokemon X and Y KILLED it in Japan..
     
    Makoto Tachibana said:
    All hail Pokemon! {XD}
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    Exodus 20:3 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

    I'm sorry, but I had to say that, anyway, Yes, I am glad Pokemon beat GTA V, I love the GTA series, don't get me wrong, but, the game is so overrated.
     
    Is that even a surprise? There were/are way more 3ds sold in Japan compared to the PS3. They also play/buy more RPG and Fighting games.

    Almost all of the Pokemon games(Not the spin-offs) have had pretty good sales numbers and some are the most bought games in Japan.

    And Pokemon is a Japanese franchise, while IMO more western gamers play the GTA series.
     
    Mr. Luigi Fletcher said:
    Exodus 20:3 "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

    I'm sorry, but I had to say that, anyway, Yes, I am glad Pokemon beat GTA V, I love the GTA series, don't get me wrong, but, the game is so overrated.
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    At least Pokemon games are a real thing. ;)
     
    My two friends who live in Japan both dont even play Pokemon :/. But one did tell me about it selling like crazy there and all her mates have it, in the process of convincing her to buy it ;). Aside from lack of post game content, this has been the best pokemon game since gold and silver for me personally :)
     
    Yea I saw your video on youtube about this lilkoi XD quite impressive :p
     
    Let's be honest here.
    Pokemon was more anticipated then GTA V. So it's no surprise it beat GTA V in sales.
     
    Yeah, quite correct there. Sure, the ratio is impressive, but not when you consider the popularities of both franchises. Pokemon has always performed best in Japan relative to other countries - it's made in Japan after all, and suits the culture far better than the more explicit GTA audience. So it beating it out there is no major deal - if anything, it was an expectation. Try comparing what the GTA sales were in America compared to Pokemon, and I'd wager you'd be telling at the very least a closer story. (I'd check, but my net is having a tantrum atm. It'll be good if this post goes through...)

    A better comparison would be with say, oh... Monster Hunter. That's a popular franchise, but in particular it is huge in Japan. The newest games that released last month for MH has had sales have been pretty similar to that of Pokemon there. Probably a bit below, but we're still talking above 2 million sales for the two.


    Also a touch old news to be pedantic. A week or around-abouts out from release it was known the preorders for Pokemon sold out in Japan.
     
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    bradenm said:
    My two friends who live in Japan both dont even play Pokemon :/. But one did tell me about it selling like crazy there and all her mates have it, in the process of convincing her to buy it ;). Aside from lack of post game content, this has been the best pokemon game since gold and silver for me personally :)
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    It took 3 years to get my brother to play Pokemon Black. He put 150 hours on it! He still not interested in XY though.

    I tried finding sales numbers world wide, but I guess that will take awhile. This is day 4 of the release.
     
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    and yet I am the only one(well their are a few others on PC) Who didnt get it yet. sad isnt it lol still good job x and y good job(just wait though when somebody makes a new pokemon game with the orre region for the wiiU. Just watch lol(I wisht that is)
     
    Ash493 said:
    Because Japan.
    Japan is like the only normal country where GTA V isn't overhyped as *insert whatever word you want*.
    I'm glad there's a country where something beats GTA.

    To sum it up. Japanese play Japanese games because they are obviously better.
    JRPGs >>>>>> everything else
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    ...Wow. Just wow. Could you possibly have been more hostile?

    You realize that what you're saying is an opinion, right? As in, not a fact? You don't have to be so hostile to games from places other than Japan. You realize that other countries have made good games, right? Bioshock, Borderlands, Ratchet and Clank, Fallout, Arkham Asylum, and many other great games aren't Japanese.

    Just because you prefer JRPGs doesn't make you some sort of superior life form.
     
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