Pokémon Sword/Shield shipped 21.10m by March 31st. Lifetime sales expectations?

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Darwinianevolution said:

kopstudent89 said:

I still think seeing how other franchises like AC, Zelda, 3D Mario and Smash grew dramatically in sales (and that list goes on), that Pokemon Sword and Shield was a missed opportunity to step it up a level. Don't get me wrong, 21m is still impressive, but it's no longer considered juggernaut numbers. Really think Game Freak missed a number here to capitalise on the Pokemon Go craze and impressive Switch hardware numbers.

On the contrary, Pokemon Go swept the legs of the mainline games. When your mobile game makes in a year more money than the entirety of the mainline series COMBINED, priorities were going to be changed in The Pokemon Co. GameFreak was having problems of vision and content since X/Y, but the fact that now they have to compete for relevance over is a burden for the studio. They need to keep up the profits by speeding up development, cutting corners and selling old content as DLC, which somehow fucking worked for SwSh, but I wonder for how long that's going to last.

Mind boggling