Society | Nov 21

New Pokemon games sell record-breaking 1.37 mil copies in 3 days

Two new Pokemon video games sold around 1.37 million copies in Japan within the first three days of their release, a record for any title developed for Nintendo Co's Switch console, an estimate by a weekly game magazine showed Wednesday.

"Pokemon Sword" and "Pokemon Shield," released worldwide last Friday as the first installments in the eighth generation of the Pokemon role-playing game series, will add to other recent titles such as "Super Mario Maker 2" in lifting sales of the Switch and its software.

The figure released by Kadokawa Corp, publisher of Shukan Famitsu magazine, does not include sales of download versions of the latest Pokemon titles.

The previous record was set in 2018 by crossover fighting game "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate," which sold around 1.24 million copies in three days.

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