{"id":109655,"date":"2020-02-27T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/famitsu_survey_reveals_88_percent_of_readers_intend_to_purchase_the_pokemon_sword_and_shield_expansion_pass"},"modified":"2020-02-27T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T05:45:00","slug":"famitsu-survey-reveals-88-of-readers-intend-to-purchase-the-pokemon-sword-and-shield-expansion-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/27\/famitsu-survey-reveals-88-of-readers-intend-to-purchase-the-pokemon-sword-and-shield-expansion-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Famitsu Survey Reveals 88% Of Readers Intend To Purchase The Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Expansion Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9cb77e032216d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9cb77e032216d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One of the more memorable segments of last month&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Direct was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/pokemon_sword_and_shield_is_getting_an_expansion_pass_and_it_looks_mighty\">reveal<\/a> of a mighty expansion pass for the latest entries, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong>. Rather than a third entry or &#8216;Ultra&#8217; version, this two-part DLC add-on will allow players to continue to their adventure within the Galar Region and uses the same save data from the base game.<\/p>\n<p>How many existing players actually plan to buy and play this expansion pass, though? Over in Japan, Weekly Famitsu ran a survey and published the results inside the latest issue (No. 1630). It turns out 88% of the 900 respondents intend to purchase the DLC. According to Japanese Nintendo, another 10% said they are currently undecided, and the remaining 2% have no intention of buying the expansion pass.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sword And Shield Expansion Pass\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fac1f3bf43ec2\/sword-and-shield-expansion-pass.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fac1f3bf43ec2\/sword-and-shield-expansion-pass.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sword And Shield Expansion Pass\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The expansion pass, as mentioned, is broken up into two different segments. The Isle of Armor, taking on the form of a giant island filled with beaches, forests, bogs, caves and sand dunes is scheduled to be released by June 2020. The Crown Tundra &#8211; a snow-swept realm &#8211; will follow, and is expected to launch in Fall 2020. The expansion pass will set Sword and Shield players back \u00a326.99 \/ $29.99 and can be pre-purchased directly from the Switch eShop right now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you plan to buy the expansion pass for Sword and Shield? Have you already purchased it? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] One of the more memorable segments of last month&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Direct was the reveal of a mighty expansion pass for the latest entries, Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield. Rather than a third entry or &#8216;Ultra&#8217; version, this two-part DLC add-on will allow players to continue to their adventure within the Galar Region and uses [&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-109655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109655","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=109655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}