{"id":95370,"date":"2019-06-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/pokemon_was_the_second_most_pre-ordered_title_at_gamestop_during_e3"},"modified":"2019-06-20T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:00:00","slug":"pokemon-was-the-second-most-pre-ordered-title-at-gamestop-during-e3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/20\/pokemon-was-the-second-most-pre-ordered-title-at-gamestop-during-e3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Was The Second Most Pre-Ordered Title At GameStop During E3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1050be0da15aa\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1050be0da15aa\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sword And Shield\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1050be0da15aa\/sword-and-shield.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1050be0da15aa\/sword-and-shield.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sword And Shield\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Video game retail giant GameStop has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamestop.gcs-web.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/post-e3-gamestop-reveals-top-10-video-games-based-customer\">revealed<\/a> the most pre-ordered upcoming releases shown during E3 2019. Three Nintendo titles made the cut and one third-party release also coming to the Switch was featured.<\/p>\n<p>Activision&#8217;s next entry in the <strong>Call of Duty<\/strong> series took out the top spot and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong> placed second on the list, despite the uproar about Game Freak&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/pokemons_junichi_masuda_explains_the_decision_to_limit_sword_and_shields_pokedex\">limit<\/a> the Pok\u00e9dex.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">The Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening<\/a><\/strong> placed sixth and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_maker_2\">Super Mario Maker 2<\/a><\/strong> was in ninth place. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/crash_team_racing_nitro-fueled\">Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled<\/a><\/strong> was the only other Switch-bound title mentioned and it&#8217;s due out this week. View the top ten most pre-ordered games below:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Call of Duty Modern Warfare (10-25-19)<\/li>\n<li>Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield (11-15-19)<\/li>\n<li>Final Fantasy VII Remake (3-3-20)<\/li>\n<li>Cyberpunk 2077 (4-16-20)<\/li>\n<li>Borderlands 3 (9-13-19)<\/li>\n<li>Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening (Switch) (9-20-19)<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (11-15-19)<\/li>\n<li>Gears 5 (9-6-19)<\/li>\n<li>Super Mario Maker 2 (6-28-19)<\/li>\n<li>Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (6-21-19)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the same news release, GameStop revealed there was a 63% increase in pre-orders on newly announced titles during the week of E3 2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you expect Pok\u00e9mon to place so high on the list? Will you be picking up Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled this week and Super Maker 2 next week? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game retail giant GameStop has revealed the most pre-ordered upcoming releases shown during E3 2019. Three Nintendo titles made the cut and one third-party release also coming to the Switch was featured. Activision&#8217;s next entry in the Call of Duty series took out the top spot and Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield placed second on [&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-95370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95370","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=95370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}