We knew Pokemon Red, Blue, Green and Yellow sales would be impressive when they arrived on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console earlier this year. Now we’ve found out that they have sold a staggering 1.5 million downloads since their release. This remarkable figure is worldwide and surprisingly the majority of downloads came from North America.

Worldwide, the four Virtual Console titles – Pokémon Red, Green, Blue and Pikachu – have been downloaded more than 1.5 million times. More than half of these downloads came from the American market. Since the start of the calendar year, Pokémon has been the subject of much attention in America, and sales are showing a favorable trend. Although these are downloadable software titles, download codes sold through retail stores have been a high proportion of sales in Japan. We believe that we have successfully created a chance to appeal to the nostalgia of consumers who played these titles when they first came out.