{"id":104351,"date":"2019-11-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/pokemon_sword_is_the_most_popular_version_in_japan"},"modified":"2019-11-24T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T04:00:00","slug":"pokemon-sword-is-the-most-popular-version-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/24\/pokemon-sword-is-the-most-popular-version-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Sword Is The Most Popular Version In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d6dca1db134d8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d6dca1db134d8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Pokemon Sword\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d6dca1db134d8\/pokemon-sword.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d6dca1db134d8\/pokemon-sword.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Sword\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say the new Pok\u00e9mon entries on Switch have been a <em>huge<\/em> success. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong> broke records across Japan, Europe, and North America on release, and experienced more than six million sales in the first week while becoming the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/pokemon_sword_and_shield_is_the_fastest-selling_switch_game_yet\">fastest-selling games<\/a> on Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on Japan, Famitsu earlier this week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/japanese_charts_pokemon_sword_and_shield_debut_in_top_spot_as_switch_sales_continue_to_rise\">revealed<\/a> the games had shifted 1.3 million physical copies. Now, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/dengekionline.com\/articles\/18412\/\">Dengeki Online<\/a> has revealed its own figures. The total amount of sales is close to Famitsu&#8217;s figure, at 1.357 million units. What&#8217;s more interesting in this particular case is the breakdown of physical sales within this region.<\/p>\n<p>Sword was apparently the most popular version of the game in physical form, shifting 499,753 copies, while Shield managed to sell 347,629 copies. These figures don&#8217;t include the 254,612 Double Pack sales, and once again this doesn&#8217;t take into account download sales.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no sales breakdowns like this in Europe or North America just yet, but there have been a number of polls in these regions asking users which version of the game they picked up. We even ran our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/poll_pokemon_sword_and_shield_are_out_today_which_version_are_you_getting\">own poll<\/a> here on Nintendo Life, so be sure to vote if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s safe to say the new Pok\u00e9mon entries on Switch have been a huge success. Sword and Shield broke records across Japan, Europe, and North America on release, and experienced more than six million sales in the first week while becoming the fastest-selling games on Switch. Focusing on Japan, Famitsu earlier this week revealed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}