Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is the second biggest Pokémon launch of all time | UK Boxed Charts
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is the latest video game to post huge launch sales in the UK.
It is the biggest boxed game launch of the year, with opening week sales up 4% compared with FIFA 23 (the previous biggest).
In fact, in terms of units, it is the second biggest Pokémon launch of all time, behind Pokémon Sun and Moon on the 3DS. Sun and Moon arrived during a period of huge interest in the series following the release of the smartphone game Pokémon Go (way back in 2016)
According to GfK, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet actually generated more money during its launch week compared with Sun and Moon. The average selling price was £35 for Sun and Moon compared with £48 for Scarlet and Violet.
Note: This data is purely boxed retail data. Download figures are not available for Nintendo games.
The Violet version accounted for 52% of sales, while Scarlet accounted for 42%, and the double pack featuring both games made up the remaining 6%.
Scarlet and Violet’s first week sales are 25% bigger than the previous ‘new generation’ Pokémon release, Sword and Shield, which launched on Switch in November 2019. It’s also 70% bigger than last year’s Diamond and Pearl remakes and 56% bigger than January’s Pokémon Legends: Arceus
The launch of Pokémon has also boosted sales of Switch consoles, GfK says. Switch hardware sales rose 62% week-on-week, led by the OLED model. It is the biggest week of the year so far for Nintendo Switch console sales.
Pokémon takes the headlines just a week after the huge launch of God of War: Ragnarok on PS4 and PS5. Sony’s game drops to No.4 this time after a sales fall of 73% week-on-week.
Last week’s other new release, Sonic Frontiers, drops from No.4 to No.10 due to a 64% fall in sales.
There was one other new release in the charts: The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me, which debuts at No.16. The Bandai Namco horror title actually sold a little better than last year’s House of Ashes.
Elsewhere, a number of PlayStation games jumped in sales due to pricing activity at major retailers. The Last of Us Part 2 re-enters the charts at No.18 due to a deal that saw the game drop below £10. Spider-Man: Miles Morales re-enters at No.26 (sales up 292%), Gran Turismo 7 is back at No.30 (sales up 228%), and The Last of Us Part 1 returns at No.38 (sales up 454%).
Here is the GfK UK Boxed Top Ten for the week ending November 20:
| Last Week | This Week | Title |
|---|---|---|
| New Entry | 1 | Pokémon Violet |
| New Entry | 2 | Pokémon Scarlet |
| 3 | 3 | FIFA 23 |
| 1 | 4 | God of War Ragnarok |
| 2 | 5 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 |
| New Entry | 6 | Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: Dual Pack |
| 7 | 7 | Horizon: Forbidden West |
| 5 | 8 | Mario Kart 8: Deluxe |
| 6 | 9 | Nintendo Switch Sports |
| 4 | 10 | Sonic Frontiers |
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Silver Tempest After Release Week
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by Theo Dwyer|
The Pokémon TCG is an ever-changing and unpredictable market.
Over the past two years, we’ve seen renewed interest in the hobby due to a number of factors, including the 25th Anniversary, strong Sword & Shield-era sets featuring stunning Alternate Arts, influencers, box breaks, COVID-19 lockdown pushing people to find hobbies, and more. For a time, sets and cards that were readily available quickly became difficult to find. Now that the hype is settling down, let’s see where modern sets stand. Every month, I will do an installment of this series, Pokémon TCG Value Watch. This series is not financial advice but is rather a way to help collectors know the trajectory of a card’s availability so that Pokémon TCG completionists like myself know when to strike. Today, let’s see how the cards of Sword & Shield – Silver Tempest, which came out in November 2022, are doing one week after release.
Silver Tempest cards. Credit: Pokémon TCG
Here are the top valued cards of Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield – Silver Tempest with market values observed on TCGPlayer as of this writing:
- Lugia V Alternate Art 186/195: $241.
15 - Regidrago V Alternate Art 184/195: $57.61
- Unown V Alternate Art 177/195: $53.12
- Serena Full Art Trainer Supporter 193/195: $48.61
- Lugia VSTAR Gold Secret Rare 211/195: $39.94
- Lugia VSTAR Rainbow Rare 202/195: $39.12
- Skuntank V Alternate Art 181/195: $25.49
- Lugia VSTAR 139/195: $21.89
- Lugia V Full Art 185/195: $21.78
- Serena Rainbow Rare Trainer Supporter 207/195: $20.04
- Candice Full Art Trainer Supporter 189/195: $14.66
- Lugia V 138/195: $14.26
- Alolan Vulpix VSTAR Rainbow Rare 197/195: $13.92
- Regidrago VSTAR Rainbow Rare 201/195: $12.28
- Candice Rainbow Rare Trainer Supporter 204/195: $12.04
This Pokémon TCG expansion includes a Trainer Gallery subset. The top cards of this subset are:
- Rayquaza VMAX Character Super Rare TG20/TG30: $40.53
- Friends in Galar Full Art Trainer Supporter TG23/TG30: $22.09
- Serperior V Character Super Rare TG13/TG30: $16.
55 - Blaziken VMAX Character Super Rare TG15/TG30: $15.46
- Duraludon VMAX Character Super Rare TG21/TG30: $13.15
This is the first-ever Silver Tempest Value Watch, so we are still seeing where certain cards will fall. It is very clear, though, that the star of the set is Lugia V Alt Art as expected and that the only Trainer Gallery standout will be the Rayquaza VMAX CSR.
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The complete Pokémon encyclopedia.
Issue 3
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Pokémon 060-091
In this book you will find a reference book of Pokémon with pictures.
It can be used as a coloring book or a game. The Complete Pokémon Encyclopedia will contain 8 issues.
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Why is Pokémon Series 38 banned
The 38th episode of the famous Japanese animated series «Pokemon» received particular fame due to the fact that after watching it, 685 Japanese children aged 3 years and older were hospitalized with symptoms resembling an epileptic seizure.
On December 16, 1997 at 6:30 pm JST, the Dennou Senshi Porygon (lit. Electronic Warrior Porygon) aired on over 37 TV stations nationwide. It should be noted that «Pokemon» had the highest rating among all other programs in its timeslot: the cartoon was watched in approximately 4.6 million homes.
According to the plot of the series, the main characters find themselves inside a computer, where they have to destroy a dangerous virus.
At about the twentieth minute of the episode, in the scene where Pikachu uses Thunderbolt on the antivirus, according to the plot, an explosion occurred — this explosion was accompanied by a very rapid change of two contrasting colors — red and blue. Such explosions were found in many other cartoons, but this one was particularly intense and bright; flashes flickered at a frequency of approximately 12 Hz and for 4 seconds occupied almost the entire screen, and then for 2 seconds — the entire screen.
After this scene, the children complained of blurred vision, headache, dizziness and nausea. For several people, the consequences were even more severe: they had convulsions and convulsions, they complained of blindness and lost consciousness. 685 children were hospitalized (375 girls and 310 boys). Most of them came to their senses on the way to the hospital, but more than 150 were taken to the doctors, and two spectators spent more than two weeks in the hospital. The number of victims rose after the morning rerun of the episode, as well as a partial replay of the cartoon scene on the news, but the exact number of victims was not established.
The management of TV Tokyo, which aired the «epileptic» episode, stopped the cartoon, apologized to its viewers, and promised to investigate the reasons for such a reaction. The police interrogated the show’s producers, video cassette distributors across the country removed it from their stores, and the Ministry of Health held an emergency meeting and discussed the issue with doctors and specialists. The commission to investigate the incident was headed by Toshio Yamauchi, a professor at Saitama Medical College. It was found that the cause of the seizures was the so-called photosensitive epilepsy, which was provoked by bright colored flashes; For most victims who had not previously responded to flicker, the disease first manifested itself while watching Pokémon, and small apartments and large TV screens exacerbated the reaction.
The reaction of some people to sudden color changes and bright flashes has long been known, but in the case of Pokémon, the number of victims has reached an unprecedented level.
Due to the high number of victims, the series entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2004 (as well as its 2008 re-release, which focused on video games) as the cartoon that caused the most seizures among its viewers due to photosensitive epilepsy. To prevent such cases, television producers have set strict medical limits on the frequency of flickering. However, American researchers argued that only a small part of the victims really suffered from photosensitive epilepsy.
Subsequently, it turned out that 5-10% of all viewers showed mild symptoms of illness that did not require hospitalization. In total, more than 12,000 children reported problems, but the researchers were skeptical about their testimony and were inclined to believe that such a large number of victims was no longer due to the direct influence of the cartoon, but to the mass hysteria around it. As evidence, the fact was cited that the symptoms that appeared in sick viewers were more characteristic of hysteria than of an epileptic seizure, and at the same time, on the day of the show, the number of victims was steadily at around 700 people, but by the next morning, thanks to the news, the number cases have increased exponentially.
Episode 38 of Pokémon was no longer shown in any country. In the US, 4Kids Entertainment dubbed the episode and recut it to slow down the flickering of the flashes, but it never aired on television. To force society to quickly forget about the incident, the creators of the anime removed the mention of Pokémon Porygon and its evolutionary variants from all subsequent series.
Pokémon was relaunched on April 16, 1998, 4 months after the incident. According to TV Tokyo spokesman Hiroshi Uramoto, during this time the channel received four thousand calls from viewers, 70% of which asked to return the series to the air as soon as possible.
To make everyone forget about this incident, the creators of the series decided that the Pokémon Porygon would no longer appear in the anime series, it followed that the evolved forms of Porygon, Porygon 2 and Porygon Z did not appear in the anime at all.
