Pokemon Black & White 2 Sells 1.6 Million Units First Week
Third best start for the DS.
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Enterbrain and Famitsu have provided a first week sales figure for Pokemon Black & White 2. The DS sold 1,618,621 in its first week of sales. As the game was released on a Saturday, the "first week" includes just two days.
Black & White 2 ended up with the third best start for the DS platform. It's also the first game to sell a million units this year, on any platform.
The fastest selling DS game is, of course, the original Black & White, which pushed 2,637,285 units in its first week in September 2010. That release also covered just two days.
Famitsu also shared life-to-date sales of the various platforms that are capable of playing Black & White 2. DS has now reached 32,855,241 units. 3DS has reached 6,288,334 units. Unlike the Black & White 2 figure, which includes through the 24th, the hardware figures are through the 17th.