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

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zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

There's a lot of qualifiers on both the negative and positive sides tbh.

On the one hand, the "Switch factor", where so many other games sold well above the norm for their series, doesn't seem to have applied with Pokemon.

On the other, both the hardware and software cost are higher than for any previous entry, and Famitsu's figure is ultimately a very incomplete picture of actual total sales. 

Will be interesting to see if the doubling of Let's Go is a trend that holds true worldwide.

The "Switch factor" is more of a global thing rather than Japan.

Yoshi, Kirby, Fire Emblem, Luigi's Mansion, Pokemon have all performed below 3DS entries.

In Japan, right? That would make sense as 3DS sold faster than Switch in Japan despite the opposite being true globally.