{"id":107514,"date":"2020-01-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/pokemon_sword_and_shield_dethrones_diamond_and_pearl_in_new_famitsu_sales_chart_record"},"modified":"2020-01-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:00:00","slug":"pokemon-sword-and-shield-dethrones-diamond-pearl-in-new-famitsu-sales-chart-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/18\/pokemon-sword-and-shield-dethrones-diamond-pearl-in-new-famitsu-sales-chart-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Dethrones Diamond &amp; Pearl In New Famitsu Sales Chart Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c93afd8944e6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c93afd8944e6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Legendary Pokemon Sword And Shield\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c93afd8944e6\/legendary-pokemon-sword-and-shield.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7c93afd8944e6\/legendary-pokemon-sword-and-shield.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Legendary Pokemon Sword And Shield\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Since the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/strong><\/a> on the Nintendo Switch last November, both games have appeared at the top of the Japanese charts every single week. The latest chart data from 6th &#8211; 12th January, was no different.<\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon took out the top spot for the ninth week in a row. If that wasn&#8217;t already impressive enough, it&#8217;s now been <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/pokemon-matome.net\/articles\/215642.html\">revealed<\/a> this is the longest a game has ever been in first place on Famitsu&#8217;s sales charts. The previous record-holder that stayed in the #1 spot for a total of eight consecutive weeks was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/pokemon_diamond_and_pearl\">Pok\u00e9mon Diamon &amp; Pearl<\/a><\/strong> when it was released back in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Before Sword and Shield arrived, no other game had really come close to the existing record. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> apparently had one of the better chances to dethrone Pok\u00e9mon when it managed to stay in first for five consecutive weeks in a row but <em>ultimately<\/em> fell short.<\/p>\n<p>The question now is, how long can Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield stay in first? Last week, Game Freak <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/pokemon_bank_successor_pokemon_home_launches_next_month\">confirmed<\/a> Pok\u00e9mon HOME would launch next month, and alongside this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/pokemon_sword_and_shield_is_getting_an_expansion_pass_and_it_looks_mighty\">announced<\/a> a new two-part expansion pass, with the first area \u2013 The Isle of Armour \u2013 scheduled to release at the end of June. Perhaps this extra content will encourage more Switch users to pick up the game and might keep these latest entries in the series in the charts even longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the release of Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch last November, both games have appeared at the top of the Japanese charts every single week. The latest chart data from 6th &#8211; 12th January, was no different. Pok\u00e9mon took out the top spot for the ninth week in a row. If that [&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-107514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107514","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=107514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}