{"id":10539,"date":"2022-11-24T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/24\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-is-the-biggest-launch-ever-for-a-video-game-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T04:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T04:14:14","slug":"pokemon-scarlet-violet-is-the-biggest-launch-ever-for-a-video-game-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/24\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-is-the-biggest-launch-ever-for-a-video-game-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet Is The &#8220;Biggest&#8221; Launch Ever For A Video Game In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Splatoon 3 has been dethroned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The good news for the ninth generation of Pok\u00e9mon games just keeps coming. Following the update <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a> have surpassed 10 million sales globally in just three days, new data about the Japanese launch has been shared.<\/p>\n<p>According to Game Data Library, Scarlet and Violet have experienced the &#8220;biggest launch&#8221; <em>ever<\/em> for a video game in Japan &#8211; surpassing the recent &#8220;record-breaking sales&#8221; set by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> by an additional 600k units.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/11\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-is-the-biggest-launch-ever-for-a-video-game-in-japan\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet Is The &#8220;Biggest&#8221; Launch Ever For A Video Game In Japan<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Splatoon 3 has been dethroned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The good news for the ninth generation of Pok\u00e9mon games just keeps coming. Following the update <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a> have surpassed 10 million sales globally in just three days, new data about the Japanese launch has been shared.<\/p>\n<p>According to Game Data Library, Scarlet and Violet have experienced the &#8220;biggest launch&#8221; <em>ever<\/em> for a video game in Japan &#8211; surpassing the recent &#8220;record-breaking sales&#8221; set by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> by an additional 600k units.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/11\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-is-the-biggest-launch-ever-for-a-video-game-in-japan\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10540,"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\/10539"}],"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=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}