PokéNews (Jan. 31): Pokémon Shuffle / Pokémon Duel / Pokémon sales
Today’s Pokémon news: new content available in Pokémon Shuffle, but also…
- Pokémon Duel
- Pokémon sales
Pokémon Shuffle
Today, some new content for Pokémon Shuffle went live:
- an Escalation Battle featuring is now available until February 14th 2017. You will get a Latiasite if you reach Level 50;
- a special stage featuring Virizion is now available until February 7th 2017;
- the special Daily Pokémon featuring some Winking Pokémon is back until February 14th. It allows you to get Torchic (Winking), Treecko (Winking), Mudkip (Winking), Castform (Winking), and Pikachu (Sleeping);
- the special stage featuring Bellossom stage is also back until February 14th 2017.
Also, the latest Competitive Stage is now available, and it features Mega Gyarados. As usual, you can get various rewards depending on your overall rank:
- Top 200 players in Europe, Top 1 000 players in Japan = 5 Raise Max Level, 5 Mega Speedup, and the Gyaradosite;
- Top 500 players in Europe, Top 2 500 players in Japan = 4 Raise Max Level, 4 Mega Speedup, and the Gyaradosite;
- Top 1 000 players in Europe, Top 5 000 players in Japan = 3 Raise Max Level, 3 Mega Speedup, and the Gyaradosite;
- Top 2 000 players in Europe, Top 10 000 players in Japan = 2 Raise Max Level, 2 Mega Speedup, and the Gyaradosite;
- Top 4 000 players in Europe, Top 20 000 players in Japan = 1 Raise Max Level, 1 Mega Speedup, and the Gyaradosite;
- Top 6 000 players in Europe, Top 30 000 players in Japan = 1 Mega Speedup, 1 Skill Booster M, and the Gyaradosite;
- Top 9 000 players in Europe, Top 45 000 players in Japan = 1 Disruption Delay, 1 Exp. Booster L, and the Gyaradosite;
- Top 12 000 players in Europe, Top 60 000 players in Japan = 1 Disruption Delay, and the Gyaradosite;
- Top 16 000 players in Europe, Top 80 000 players in Japan = 1 Disruption Delay, and 1 Attack Power;
- Not ranked: 1 Attack Power.
Finally, the latest update also added:
- new skills (available through the Skill Swapper);
- new levels (available using the Raise Max Level item);
- 2 Raise Max Levels, 2 Skill Swappers, and 2 Jewels are being distributed to all players as part of the celebrations for the game’s second anniversary.
Source: Serebii
Pokémon Duel
Today, some new figures were added to Pokémon Duel:
- Poliwhirl, Tentacool, Golbat, Exeggutor, and Arbok (UC)
- Onix, and Wigglytuff (R)
- Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres (EX)
Source: Serebii
Pokémon sales
Here’s total sales data for the various mainline Pokémon game (data from Nintendo, compiled by JoeM86):
- Pokémon Green, Red, Blue: 31.38 million (not counting Virtual Console releases)
- Pokémon Gold & Silver: 23.10 million
- Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: 17.64 million
- Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire: 16.22 million
- Pokémon X & Y: 16.06 million
- Pokémon Black & White: 15.62 million
- Pokémon Sun & Moon: 14.69 million
- Pokémon Yellow: 14.64 million (not counting Virtual Console release)
- Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire: 13.68 million
- Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver: 12.72 million
- Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen: 11.82 million
- Pokémon Black 2 & White 2: 8.52 million
- Pokémon Platinum: 7.69 million
- Pokémon Emerald: 7.06 million
- Pokémon Crystal: 6.39 million
Source: Nintendo
Via: JoeM86 (NeoGAF)