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'PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon' news: these latest PokÃ©mon games are now Nintendo's fastest-selling games in America

Noriel See Friday, December 02, 2016

An image of Solgaleo in "PokÃ©mon Sun." | The PokÃ©mon Company/Nintendo

"PokÃ©mon Sun" and "PokÃ©mon Moon" were already the best preselling games in Nintendo history. And now they have broken another sales record! Nintendo has announced that the latest role-playing games in the franchise have sold a combined 3.7 million units in America, making them the fastest-selling games the company has ever launched in the region.

According to Nintendo, that marks a huge 85 percent increase over the previous record holders, "PokÃ©mon X" and "PokÃ©mon Y."

"With these huge sales figures, PokÃ©mon Sun and PokÃ©mon Moon have proved themselves as two of the hottest video games to buy this holiday season," Nintendo of America's senior VP of Sales and Marketing Doug Bowser said. "With great reviews and outstanding fan response, these next iterations in the PokÃ©mon series are sure to please any player in the family," he added.

Furthermore, The Verge has reported that the games also sold 1.5 million units in Europe, which means "PokÃ©mon Sun" and "PokÃ©mon Moon" are also Nintendo's fastest-selling in that region. There were already 368,000 units reportedly sold in the United Kingdom.

According to Famitsu (via Kotaku), "PokÃ©mon X" and "PokÃ©mon Y" still outsold "PokÃ©mon Sun" and "PokÃ©mon Moon" in Japan. The newer games sold a total of 1,905,107 units while the 2013 games sold 2.096 million units during the same period.

Meanwhile, Nintendo might not have gotten much out of "PokÃ©mon GO" in terms of revenue, but industry insiders generally agree that Niantic's free-to-play game definitely help boost the franchise's popularity. There's no denying that the game managed to introduce millions of casual gamers to the "PokÃ©mon" franchise even though Nintendo has not acknowledged it in their statement.

"While Pokemon Go fever has quieted down since then, it's clear that the mobile title has had an impact on the Pokemon games overall," USgamer's Mike Williams stated. He added that the game revived interest in the franchise.