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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the delivery of clues from rain and snow and Daniel Wu in South China! CTOnews.com, May 28 (Xinhua)-- The Pokemon Company recently released sales figures for the "Pokemon" series, which has sold nearly 500 million copies since the launch of the first game in 1996.

The company says it has sold more than 480 million copies on all platforms worldwide in the past 27 years. The cumulative sales announced in March 2022 were 440 million, which means an increase of 4000 million over the past year or so.

The icons embedded in CTOnews.com are as follows. Pokemon is the third best-selling video game in history, after Tetris (495 million) and Mario (more than 776 million).

The main drivers of the Pokemon series are the worldwide popularity of the Nintendo Switch and the promotion of Pok Meng Zhu / Purple, which has sold 2210 copies between November 2022 and March 2023.