Famitsu: Pokémon let’s go sold 664,198 copies in 3 days // Switch HW 180,585

[Barkley]

RolStoppable said:

Barkley said:

Hope you're joking TBone, for the 3ds pokemon titles Japan+UK made up about 45% of FW sales, for a 3m opening that 45% would have to change to 26% for let's go. While Let's Go might have a stronger USA ratio than most Pokemon Games it's not going to be that different.

While I don't think 3m are realistic, your comparison does not take into account that the 3DS's popularity skews more towards Japan than Switch's, i.e. Japanese 3DS hardware sales accounted for ~33% of the global total while the same value for Switch is ~25%. Taking that into account, it makes it more feasible to exceed 2m first week worldwide for Let's Go.

That is true if we're including UK as well as Japan it's 38.7% for 3DS and only 29.8% for Switch. And when Sun/Moon launched it was 40%, X/Y 44% so even more in favour. So yes the sales could certainly be higher than I previously suggested.