Nintendo's on a sales roll with Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire for 3DS.
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Nintendo sells 1.5M copies of new Pokémon games in first 10 days in U.S.

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Nintendo said today that the Nintendo 3DS’s Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire have sold nearly 1.5 million copies in their first 10 days on the market in the U.S.

The Japanese company launched the new Pokémon adventures on Nov. 21. The 1.5 million in sales includes both cartridge and digital copies in the U.S., and so the numbers don’t exactly match the physical game sales reported today by The NPD Group. The market researcher said that Pokémon Alpha Sapphire was the fifth most-popular game and Pokémon Omega Ruby was the seventh most-popular game of the month in November.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.