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Pokemon sells almost 1.5 million in two days

Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver have sold 1,480,980 units in their first week of release over in Japan - an impressive launch considering that these are remakes of older Pokemon games and in fact not all-new games.

Even more interesting the games were released on a Saturday - different from the Japanese norm - meaning that the games had only 2 days to track on the chart. 1.5 million in two days - not too shabby.

Pokemon Gold and Silver were originally released on the Game Boy in 1999, and this release finally allows every single version of Pokemon to connect to each other, with GBA and DS remakes of the first two titles in the series that were previously excluded from connectivity.

Japanese retailers are reporting sell-outs across the board and are awaiting more shipments from Nintendo.

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Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilve... - el33tonline.com | By: OliverKO

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Published: 79 days 2 hours ago | News | Nintendo DS

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Saaking - 79 days 11 hours ago

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Pokemon is powerful. Didn't Diamond and Peal sell like 16 million combined? And Platinum has sold like 7 million. It's just insane how much they sell.

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randomwiz - 79 days 3 hours ago

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I found it funny that they get this many sales even with rampant piracy on the DS

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Panthers - 78 days 22 hours ago

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Its like a money cow considering this game hasnt had any major innovation since its inception.

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badz149 - 78 days 21 hours ago

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that's what I don't get it about pokemon games! they hardly innovate from 1 iteration to the next, yet the are selling in the millions every fvcking time! it's "pokemillion"!

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djt23 - 78 days 19 hours ago

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it diff
psp piracy bad but you dont want to buy the game
ds piracy is good and you want to buy the game
because i have hack psp and i dont buy any games for it
but i have r4[you can play piracy games] and i buy alot of game for it
i dont know why but i do

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jav0918 - 78 days 19 hours ago

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Gold & Silver had the most innovation though allowing you to do 16 badges. It would be awesome if they could make a game with all 4 Regions and 36 badges but make it for the wii instead and make it full 3d with online support and make it really really balanced because 36 gyms is a lot to go through. You would be level 100 by the end of the 2nd region or just raise the level cap.

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badz149 - 78 days 19 hours ago

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dude...what the hell are you talking about, Sorry but I have no idea! I don't like pokemons or I shall say I hate them! I don't play these games but my brother do and I asked him about it after seeing he bought a new version when it came out! he said nothing much has changed except just bunch of new monsters!

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G4drake - 79 days 2 hours ago

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"I found it funny that they get this many sales even with rampant piracy on the DS" people who tried to play the game by piracy,they got f***** up because Nintendo made a freaking good job on making a code that prevents from pirating

way to go nintendo.

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-x.Red.x- - 78 days 22 hours ago

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what!?

link plz I gotta see this.

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Tarmgar - 78 days 22 hours ago

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Lol, I would love to see the facts on this statement. If you want to say that, please say the PSP. Because at least for the PSP, you have to basically "fry" it to pirate it.

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Darkfocus - 78 days 20 hours ago

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what are you talking about pokemon hh &ss's copy protection was hacked before the game was even officially released

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Nitrowolf2 - 78 days 20 hours ago

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They both are already hacked. I know the new Mario game makes your game freezes on certain type of carts. Nintendo will probaly do that for english version of pokemon. Same with PSP and PC games. They are starting to put protection and weird bugs in-game

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patronnessy - 78 days 22 hours ago

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Pokemon never gets old it seems

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Irnbruguy - 78 days 22 hours ago

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Beat that call of duty!

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swiftshot93 - 78 days 22 hours ago

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just so you know, CoD already has over 1.1 million pre-orders in NA alone...and we're still 2 months away...

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BRG9000 - 78 days 22 hours ago

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But this number is just for Japan though. Which has a much small base of players (smaller population in general). These numbers in Japan are like a game selling 5 million in two days in the U.S.

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Killjoy3000 - 78 days 22 hours ago

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See, this is why the sales argument is completely moot and does not make a game at all.

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dchalfont - 78 days 22 hours ago

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I guess my wishes that they will stop pumping out remakes and make a proper 3d pokemon game for the wii, or just a full ds pokemon game(3 areas, 24 gyms, every pokemon so far including legendaries) have been in vain, you can't argue with those hand held money printers, and the fickle consumers always come first

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Irnbruguy - 78 days 22 hours ago

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I'd love to see a full 3 Area/24 Gym pokemon game.

or a Proper Wii Game with the same gameplay as Gameboy/DS but with Upped graphics

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skip2mylou - 78 days 20 hours ago

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lol i only have 3 pokemon games Pokemon:Gold, Pokemon:Blue, and Pokemon:Sapphire beat them all like 9 times and especially gold it is problly my favorite of all of the pokemon games

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Arsenal4Ever - 78 days 15 hours ago

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buying this day 1 EU launch.

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