{"id":7198,"date":"2021-12-08T19:02:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T10:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T07:18:16","slug":"20211208-7198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20211208-7198\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon BDSP sold over 6 million units during its launch week. On par with Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield&#8217;s first-week sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by. Ryuki Ishii based on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20211208-185031\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a>&nbsp;(publication date: 2021-12-08 18:33 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Pok\u00e9mon Company announced that the worldwide first-week sales of <strong><em>Pok\u00e9mon Brilliant Diamond<\/em> and <em>Shining Pearl<\/em><\/strong> (<em><strong>Pok\u00e9mon BDSP<\/strong><\/em>) exceeded 6 million units. This is on par with 2019\u2019s <em>Pok\u00e9mon Sword<\/em> and<em> Shield<\/em> which also sold over 6 million units during their launch week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Brilliant Diamond and Pok\u00e9mon Shining Pearl - Overview Trailer - Nintendo Switch\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TUOlZBxdrTA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pok\u00e9mon BDSP<\/em> is a remake of <em>Pok\u00e9mon Diamond<\/em> and <em>Pearl<\/em>, which originally released for the Nintendo DS in 2006. The nostalgic top-down view of the original is retained while utilizing the capability of the latest hardware to recreate the Sinnoh region. Unlike the original versions, battle sequences are depicted using dynamic 3D graphics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there have been reports of numerous bugs, and although there aren&#8217;t many additional features introduced, the games are receiving modest praise for its faithful recreation of the originals. And it seems like the abundance of bugs didn\u2019t hinder the game\u2019s initial sales either.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1368\" height=\"770\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1368px) 100vw, 1368px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001.jpg 1368w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211208-185031-001-746x420.jpg 746w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As mentioned above, their launch week sales are on par with <em>Sword<\/em> and <em>Shield<\/em>. For comparison, the first-week sales for <em>Pok\u00e9mon Omega Ruby<\/em> and <em>Alpha Sapphire <\/em>were 3.04 million units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Pok\u00e9mon Sword<\/em> and<em> Shield\u2019<\/em>s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/en\/finance\/software\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">current total sales number<\/a> is 22.64 million units. While these titles received updates and DLC over the years, the future of <em>Pok\u00e9mon BDSP<\/em> is pretty much unknown except for things like the expansion of the Union Room feature, so it\u2019s hard to tell whether they can continue to increase the sales number in the same way <em>Sword<\/em> and <em>Shield<\/em> did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon BDSP sold over 6 million units during its launch week, which is on par with Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield&#8217;s launch week sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,70],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-pokemon-series"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pok\u00e9mon BDSP sold over 6 million units during its launch week. 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