Nintendo didn’t have a great 2016, but it’s ending the year with a big hit.
Pokémon Sun and Moon, the two entries in the latest generation of the publisher’s monster-catching role-playing games, are collectively the best-selling video game in online holiday shopping in the United States so far, according to data from market-tracking firm Adobe Digital Insights. Pokémon Sun and Moon debuted for the Nintendo 3DS handheld November 18, that’s two weeks after Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s November 4 launch. Despite that late start, the pocket-monster game is outselling Activision’s military-shooter franchise From November 1 through November 28. With that kind of momentum, Pokémon could end the year as one of the most dominant franchises in the $99.6 billion global gaming market.
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