Nintendo Pokemon Sword and Shield. In the first week of sales, more than 6 million copies of the new part of the role-playing series were sold - this is a record for the Nintendo Switch.
According to the publishing house, 2 million copies were sold in Japan and the United States. For the US market, the launch of Pokemon Sword and Shield proved to be the highest-grossing launch in franchise history.
The result achieved would allow Pokemon Sword and Shield to reach the eighth line in best-selling games for Nintendo Switch - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe holds the lead in the list with 19 million copies.
Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! - during the debut week, the remake of the first generation of "Pokemon" sold around the world in the amount of .
Nintendo also announced that as of September 2019, cumulative sales of core Pokemon pieces since Pokemon Red and Blue in 1996 have reached 240 million units.
Pokemon Sword and Shield released on November 15 exclusively for the Nintendo Switch. The average score on Metacritic for both versions is equally high - , - which can not be said about the user rating.
The unprecedented success of Pokemon Sword and Shield was achieved against the background of protests and indignation of gamers - only half of the total number of Pokemon from the previous parts is available in the new game, and recently developers have also .
Source: 3dnews.ru