The new installments of Game Freak for Nintendo Switch enhance the premiere of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but not the Sun and Moon editions.
Pokémon Sword and Shield have sold 1,364,544 units in Japan during their first three days for sale. As Famitsu collects, these figures compute the physical format units, download cards and the corresponding physical units of the Dual Pack; On the sidelines are digital sales via eShop.
The eighth generation of Pokémon starts strongly
To put the data in context, this is the best debut of any Nintendo Switch video game to date, thus improving the premiere of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which did the same with 1.23 million copies in its first days on sale, according to this same source. It should be added that the scenario of the console is now much better than before, not only because of the arrival of Nintendo Switch Lite (member of the family only portable) but because there are already implanted more than 9.6 million units in that market, about 3 millions more than a year ago.
The figures smile at Pokémon Sword and Shield, not in vain, despite the criticism the game has received from the community. Who they do not surpass is Pokémon Sun and Moon (Nintendo 3DS, 2016) with 1.90 million units, which were positively influenced in their debut to the media impact that Pokémon GO supposed that same summer of 2016 (in total they accumulated 16.17 million in all the balloon, according to official data).
The improvement over Pokémon Let’s GO Pikachu / Eevee (Nintendo Switch, 2018) is substantial. These deliveries, spin off where Yellow Pokémon was taken as the basis for the remake, sold 664,198 units in Japan in its first three days.
The commercial reaction is also very positive in the United Kingdom, where they are also the best selling games in their debut in the history of Nintendo Switch. In the absence of knowing data in Spain, Europe and the United States, expert analysts estimate that we are facing the most quickly sold deliveries in his debut since the original Game Boy works, Blue / Red, but to know we will have to wait a while.
Pokémon Sword and Shield
What we can do is a comparison of initial sales of all major deliveries (specifically, those that start a generation) of the saga in Japan, as you can see in the following list.
Debut of each generation of Pokémon in Japan
- Pokémon Red / Green – 140,074 units
- Pokémon Gold and Silver – 1,425,768 units
- Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire – 1,245,003 units
- Pearl and Diamond Pokémon – 1,586,360 units
- Black and White Pokémon – 2,637,285 units
- Pokémon X / Y – 2,096,050 units
- Pokémon Sun and Moon 1,905,107 units
- Pokémon Sword and Shield – 1,364,544 units
For everything else, Pokémon Sword and Shield are now available exclusively for Nintendo Switch; You can read our Reviews here and here our complete game guide.
