Grab Bag of Weekly Game Sales from a Big Box Retailer (US)

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Mr_Destiny said:
I'd say well over half of Xbox/PS4 sales are digital these days, so I'm not sure Pokemon is ahead. I can't find the file now, but a while back I compared Media Create's physical sales to some digital sales Nintendo announced in Japan, and found about 1/5 of copies sold were digital. It seems Nintendo fans love their physical media, so even if digital is included it wouldn't nudge the total sales up much.

Just going by the numbers you posted, CoD sold 43.3k during launch week (PS4+XB1).  So even if you double that to 86.6k that is still less than the Sword/Shield number of 102k (and we aren't even adding any digital to Sword/Shield).  But NPD breaks up Sword/Shield into 2 SKU's.  So each SKU will only sell approximately 51K.  NPD combines the CoD numbers between 2 platforms but it breaks up Pokemon instead of combining it.  Pokemon is outselling CoD both individually and combined, but NPD still does whatever they can to make CoD come out on top in the rankings.  (This is all assuming your numbers are a decent representation of nationwide sales.)