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Forums - Sales Discussion - Update: Pokemon Sword/Shield sells 2 million in first 3 days in Japan, doubles Switch hardware to 180k

NateH on 21 November 2019

Yep, Japan is at two million already, above Diamond and Pearl's 1,588,734, about the same as Sun and Moon's 1,905,107 first three days.

Guess all the doom and gloom early in the thread didn't align with reality.



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LGBTDBZBBQ on 21 November 2019

700k in 3 days for Pokemon SnS at Japan.



Supermario28 on 21 November 2019
Marth said:

It sold 6M worldwide after its first week
Japan is at 2M

Source: https://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/201911210060/

Edit: Official Press Release https://www.pokemon.co.jp/corporate/PostImages/b1b2b7b4ea55eef149f2bc849c194eea958c68c6.pdf

Thanks for the update!

It means 32% of the sales were digital then.

In line with the digital rates of Link's awakening, Fire emblem and Mario Maker



Barkley on 21 November 2019
zorg1000 said:
Barkley said:

Yes you can get sold-through from famitsu and shipped+digital from Nintendo... what's your point?

They give sell through percentage

Can't see that in the same document, link please!



aircanada83 on 21 November 2019

That's a wrong logic. Digital sales are much bigger now but this is at cost of physical copies numbers.



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tbone51 on 21 November 2019
RolStoppable said:
NateH said:
Yep, Japan is at two million already, above Diamond and Pearl's 1,588,734, about the same as Sun and Moon's 1,905,107 first three days.

Guess all the doom and gloom early in the thread didn't align with reality.

Now that we have a Sword/Shield number including digital sales, an estimate for digital sales should be added where applicable when we compare Sword/Shield's 2m to the other games.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9076782

X/Y was released at a time when simultaneous physical + digital releases were still in their infancy on Nintendo consoles, Sun/Moon was better off, but I still wouldn't put its digital share above 10% because that's about the value where Switch started from in 2017.

Including an estimate for digital sales:

Black/White - ~2.6m
X/Y - ~2.2m
Sun/Moon - ~2.1m
Sword/Shield - ~2m

A decline is still there, but Sword/Shield's high digital share makes the decline considerably smaller than zorg1000's conservative estimate in the post linked above.

I read somewhere that sun and moon digital hit 100k Ltd in Japan so digital wasn’t even close to 5%



Barkley on 21 November 2019
tbone51 said:

I read somewhere that sun and moon digital hit 100k Ltd in Japan so digital wasn’t even close to 5%

Zhuugex tweet says S&M sold 2m FW in Japan, 1.9m on famitsu, so 100k digital FW.



zorg1000 on 21 November 2019
Barkley said:
zorg1000 said:

They give sell through percentage

Can't see that in the same document, link please!

Sorry, I should have specified, Famitsu gives out sell through percentage along with retail sales.



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tbone51 on 21 November 2019
Barkley said:
tbone51 said:

I read somewhere that sun and moon digital hit 100k Ltd in Japan so digital wasn’t even close to 5%

Zhuugex tweet says S&M sold 2m FW in Japan, 1.9m on famitsu, so 100k digital FW.

Ok thanks for the correction 



Barkley on 21 November 2019
zorg1000 said:
Barkley said:

Can't see that in the same document, link please!

Sorry, I should have specified, Famitsu gives out sell through percentage along with retail sales.

Ah yes thanks. Unfortunately not too accurate though. They give Mario Maker's sell-through ratio as 80% to 100%.

So for Mario Maker 2:

Ratio Sell-Through Sold-Through Digital Sell-Through Shipped (not sold-through) Digital Ratio
80.00% 644k 70k 166k 8.00%
90.00% 644k 164k 72k 18.60%
100.00% 644k 236k 0k 26.80%

I guess the midground of 90% is the best way to go, which would give a digital ratio of 18.6% for Mario Maker 2.

Not really needed now we have actual figures given, but interesting anyway lol.