Last month, Pokemon game developer Game Freak confirmed that Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon would be the last core Pokemon games for the Nintendo 3DS. But that certainly won't be the end of Pokemon, especially considering lifetime sales just went past 300 million units.

As Famitsu reports, The Pokemon Company announced on Nov. 24 that "Pokemon related game software" had just gone past 300 million units worldwide. That includes sales of 76 different titles spread across 21 years (February 1996 to November 2017).

The total is quite staggering, but becomes even more so when you consider Ultra Moon and Ultra Sun only just launched and will continue to sell strongly into 2018. Gamasutra also confirmed that the 300 million total does not include downloaded versions of Pokemon games, which would surely take the total a few million higher considering the recent re-release of Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver. It also doesn't include free-to-play titles such as Pokemon Go, but that's understandable.

Love it or hate it, Pokemon is an enduring brand and series of games. Nintendo will continue to demand new entries and slight tweaks to the gameplay formula. With the huge popularity of the Switch, the next core Pokemon game is guaranteed to shift millions of units and could be a record breaker.