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Main article: Gameplay of Pokémon Chart of the current eighteen Pokémon types (as of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet) and their strengths (2, in green), weaknesses (½, in red), and immunities (0, in black) against one another

This makes Pokémon the third best-selling video game franchise, behind Nintendo's own Mario franchise, and Tetris.

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As of March 2023, the series has sold over 480 million units worldwide. By November 24, 2017, more than 300 million Pokémon games had been sold worldwide on handheld and home consoles, across 76 titles, including spin-offs. Pokémon is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time, with successful anime series, movies, and merchandise, with spin-off game Pokémon Go having crossed 1 billion mobile game downloads worldwide. While the main series consists of RPGs developed by Game Freak, many spin-off games based on the series have been developed by various companies, encompassing other genres such as action role-playing, puzzle, fighting, and digital pet games.

Remakes of the games are usually released around a decade after the original versions for the latest console at the time. The core games are released in generations, each with different Pokémon, storylines, and characters. In 1998, Nintendo, Creatures, and Game Freak jointly established The Pokémon Company, which manages licensing, production, publishing, marketing and deals for the franchise both within Asia and worldwide through The Pokémon Company International. In addition to Game Freak's development, Creatures provides support through their Pokémon CG Studio, which creates 3D models for the Pokémon in the games, and also develops some spin-off titles. The most recently released core series games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, were released on November 18, 2022, for the Nintendo Switch. The main series of role-playing video games (RPGs), referred as the 'core series' by their developers, has continued on each generation of Nintendo's handhelds. It was created by Satoshi Tajiri with assistance from Ken Sugimori, the first games, Pocket Monsters Red and Green, were released in 1996 in Japan for the Game Boy, later released outside of Japan as Pokémon Red Version and Blue Version. Pokémon is a series of video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company under the Pokémon media franchise.

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