This week, the sales of Pokemon sword and shield in Japan increased by 382,540 units (total sales of 17,400,84 units), it has beaten Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu／Eevee (1,661,155 units sold as of last week) took only 10 days. Please note that this number is only used for physical copies and download cards.

Of course, if you include digital sales, the situation may be different, but this does highlight how incredible the new Pokémon game has been so far; the pokemon sword/shield launched on November 15, 2019, but the Let’s Go games have had almost a year longer on sale, launching on 16th November 2018 .

A few days ago, It was confirmed by Nintendo “The pokemon sword and shield have become the fastest selling games”