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Posted: August 3rd, 2003.
Nintendo has today announced that the new Pokémon games, Pokémon Ruby andPokémon Sapphire, have achieved fantastic sales across Europe, selling over500,000 games during the first weekend.
The launch on Friday 25th July of the highly anticipated games, Pokémon Rubyand Pokémon Sapphire, has already increased Game Boy Advance and Game BoyAdvance SP hardware sales by an amazing 50% across Europe.
Since hitting shops across Europe Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire havebeen literally flying off shelves as consumers snap up the games that havebeen tipped as the must have¹ titles for kids this summer. Retailersacross Europe are selling out so quickly that they have already begunreordering copies of the games.
David Gosen, managing director, sales and marketing for Nintendo of Europecomments:“Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire have enjoyed immediate success inAmerica, Japan and now across Europe too.
Pokémon has been incredibly popular since it was originally launched inJapan in 1996 with 110 million games sold worldwide to date. The success ofthe video game has also been emulated by a merchandising campaign that hasgenerated over $15 billion in retail sales to date. We are very pleasedthat the Pokémon phenomenon continues to bring enjoyment to so many kidsacross Europe.”
Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire launched on 25th July 2003 priced ataround 45 Euros each.
Click ontoNintendo Europe.comfor all of the most up to date official information on Nintendo.
News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2003.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.