{"id":10390,"date":"2022-11-21T10:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/uk-charts-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-enjoy-the-second-biggest-franchise-launch-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:18:35","slug":"uk-charts-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-enjoy-the-second-biggest-franchise-launch-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/uk-charts-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-enjoy-the-second-biggest-franchise-launch-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Charts: Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet And Violet Enjoy The Second Biggest Franchise Launch Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First week sales 25% higher than Sword and Shield.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest boxed charts data is in and, as expected, it&#8217;s a big win for the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a>, with both entries coming in at number one and two.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of which of the two proved more popular, it seems most opted for Violet and its Legendary Pok\u00e9mon Miraidon, with this version making up 52% of total sales. Meanwhile, Scarlet made up 42%, and the Dual Pack &#8211; containing both games in one handy box &#8211; entered the charts at number six, making up the remaining 6% of sales.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/11\/uk-charts-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-enjoy-the-second-biggest-franchise-launch-of-all-time\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]UK Charts: Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet And Violet Enjoy The Second Biggest Franchise Launch Of All Time<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>First week sales 25% higher than Sword and Shield.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest boxed charts data is in and, as expected, it&#8217;s a big win for the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a>, with both entries coming in at number one and two.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of which of the two proved more popular, it seems most opted for Violet and its Legendary Pok\u00e9mon Miraidon, with this version making up 52% of total sales. Meanwhile, Scarlet made up 42%, and the Dual Pack &#8211; containing both games in one handy box &#8211; entered the charts at number six, making up the remaining 6% of sales.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/11\/uk-charts-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-enjoy-the-second-biggest-franchise-launch-of-all-time\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}