[BinaryIdiot]

There was no marketing? It was being talked about everywhere. If they didn't spend any money on marketing then good for them!

But in all seriousness this is Pokemon; they sold over 3 million copies of a remake of a game on a niche portable console in just 3 days; elevating its brand to an open platform for FREE that can be downloaded and installed on theoretically, what, a billion or more devices? Seems incredibly doable for Pokemon. Few other brands could do the same. Even Mario wouldn't be able to come close to competing with Pokemon's brand power.

I would be very interested in the real numbers :)

[itcmcgrath]

How about this - Pokemon search trend for the last 5 years: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=pokemon

If this doesn't clearly show how crazy this growth was compared to what anyone was expecting, I'm not sure we're operating in the same plane.

[BinaryIdiot]

I don't see how that data couldn't be used to argue either of our points (in fact I feel like you could make a strong case for my previous post using this very link). Ultimately though this conversation is a bit vapid without actual numbers which is a bit of a disappointment. Oh well.