Pokémon Sun and Moon break Nintendo 3DS record with 10 million copies shipped

Nintendo announced today that it has shipped 10 million copies of Pokémon Sun and Moon for the 3DS, the newest installments in the company’s hit monster-collecting and fighting series.

This is a new record for the portable system — according to Nintendo — and represents a 150 percent increase over the previous entries, Pokémon X and Y. Before today’s release of Sun and Moon, the series has sold over 279 million copies worldwide. Shipped games don’t necessarily mean units sold, but it’s still a metric for a game’s success. Nintendo clearly feels confident that it can move a lot Sun and Moon copies, and this doesn’t even take digital sales into consideration.