US Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire sales surpass 2.6 million

Nintendo of America have shared that Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire have achieved 2.6 million sales in the United States.

That success is across physical and digital sales in their first six weeks since launch, with Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo 3DS similarly seeing strong sales having long passed the 2 million mark in the space of three months.

We shared our love for Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire in our review, writing: “We’ve been catching ‘em all for 16 years now, but Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire promise to send nostalgia into overdrive while successfully retaining many of the recent improvements that Game Freak have made over the past few years.”