Pokemon Co: Sword/Shield sold through 6 million globally in its first 3 days

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Shikamo on 21 November 2019

Looks like Pokemon Sword/Shield sold over 2 million copies in first two days in US, and the game is the highest-grossing Pokemon launch.

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TruckOSaurus on 21 November 2019

Marth said:
So another 10M+ seller for Switch. But I don't see it reaching 20. Maybe 15+. Depends on what GameFreak is doing next.

Aren't they doing that Town project?

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Seece on 21 November 2019

Amazing and well deserved, If Lets Go can do around 12m? This can definitely reach north of 15.

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OTBWY on 21 November 2019

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I imagine that it is the full week (instead of three days) + digital.

We don’t even have a full week of data, it is definitely 3 days

Shit, I meant a few more days and then some.

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kopstudent89 on 21 November 2019

2 million in Japan is more like it! Insane numbers all around

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MasonADC on 21 November 2019

OTBWY said:

MasonADC said:

We don’t even have a full week of data, it is definitely 3 days

Shit, I meant a few more days and then some.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191121005357/en/Pok%C3%A9mon-Sword-Pok%C3%A9mon-Shield-Sales-Exceed-6

well this clarifies that it is 3 days

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TruckOSaurus on 21 November 2019

Marth said:

TruckOSaurus said:

Aren't they doing that Town project?

That already released on October 16th as Little Town Hero

Wow that one really flew under the radar!

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OTBWY on 21 November 2019

MasonADC said:

OTBWY said:

Shit, I meant a few more days and then some.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191121005357/en/Pok%C3%A9mon-Sword-Pok%C3%A9mon-Shield-Sales-Exceed-6

well this clarifies that it is 3 days

Ah disregard my previous statements @Jranation

So Nintendo just clarified:https://t.co/S1QtELPMyc

1. The 6 million are sell-through (not just shipped/sold to retailers - but sold through to end users).

2. Number refers to the launch weekend only, not the initial week.

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zorg1000 on 21 November 2019

Marth said:
So another 10M+ seller for Switch. But I don't see it reaching 20. Maybe 15+. Depends on what GameFreak is doing next.

Maybe 15+? Every Pokemon gen has sold over 15m

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RetroGamer94 on 21 November 2019

zorg1000 said:

Marth said:
So another 10M+ seller for Switch. But I don't see it reaching 20. Maybe 15+. Depends on what GameFreak is doing next.

Maybe 15+? Every Pokemon gen has sold over 15m

I was thinking the same thing when I read that, based on this opening it’s not going to have any issues getting to 15...

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