Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (DS)Pokemon Diamond and Pearl sales near 1.6mgamespot.com - October 10, 2007
Submitted by pizza_pie (1691)
at 11:03PM PST on October 28, 2007
According to NTT Publishing's EG game news site, the new Nintendo DS Pokémon games Diamond and Pearl accrued combined sales of 1.58 million units during their debut week of September 28 through October 1. This beats the franchise's former champions of first-week sales, Pocket Monster Gold/Silver, which combined moved 1.41 million copies back in 1999.
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In the future, look at the beginning of the article. For example, in this one, the date is listed "Oct 5, 2006" right under the writer's name and before the text of the article.
Also, this game has been out for over a year, so that's another hint that we wouldn't be talking about "debut" sales. You should also check other articles under a game listing to make sure you aren't submitting something that's already posted...doing so would have shown you that articles already exist showing that sales are over 10 million worlwide, over 5 million in Japan alone.