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Nintendo Earnings Release: Pokémon X and Y top-selling 3DS titles at 14.46 million units

For its lesser time on shelves, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire sold 11.46 million units.

By , February 2, 2016, 4:45 PM

Nintendo has, as part of their earnings release today, updated data for investor relations, indicating the sales units of their games, per console. Of interest is the Nintendo 3DS data, indicating the sales of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, as well as Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire.

Selling at 14.46 million units worldwide, Pokémon X and Y are the top-selling Nintendo-published 3DS titles. Keep in mind that these games were released on October 8, 2013.

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, being released on November 21, 2014, are the third top-selling 3DS titles, selling at 11.46 million units.

“Jake”, known as Hiroshi Sotomura on The PokéCommunity, is a contributing writer and one of the founders of PokéCommunity Daily. Being introduced to Pokémon after watching “The Water Flowers of Cerulean City”, Jake sought out to obtain the just-released copy of Pokémon Yellow, and became an avid fan of the games and the TV show. For whatever reason, he owns several consoles just to play different copies of the games.