‘Pokemon Sword/Shield’ Remains Consecutively at the Top of Japan’s Video Game Rankings

It’s another week and Famitsu released its Japan video game rankings from December 2 to 8. As expected Pokemon Sword/Shield continues to be at the top rank with weekly copies sold at 201,838. Making its total number of 2,224,881 copies sold so far. This is followed by Luigi’s Mansion 3 at 2^nd, and Ring Fit Adventure at number 3. All mentioned titles are under the Nintendo Switch.

Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield were released worldwide on November 15. The two versions of the game will feature Pokemon from the Galar region, and players can choose one of the three basic starter Pokemon namely Gookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble. This is also the game where the Gigantamax forms are featured, in which Pikachu, Eevee, Meowth, Butterfree, Charizard, Alcremie, and Corviknight will be having their own, said forms in this game. Two legendary Pokemon will also be introduced.

Other features in the Pokemon Sword and Shield game include the Max Raid Battles, Dynamax, Gigantamax forms, the Battle Stadium, Poke Jobs, Pokemon Camp, and Surprise trades. This is the second Nintendo Switch game for the popular franchise.

Even before the release of the two games, people have already shared their frustration and disappointment over some Pokemon that are missing from the game. Fans say that this is saddening as people expected so much from the game’s developer Game Freak thinking that it would be better than its first Nintendo Switch games of the franchise, Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! which were based on the 1998 video game Pokemon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition.

The first Nintendo Switch games Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu, and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! was released in November 2018. The release of the games was a huge success as it had a record of more than 11.28 million combined sales as of September 2019. This huge number has made the games known as one of the best-selling games for the Nintendo Switch.

Luigi’s Mansion 3 is an action-adventure game released worldwide for the Nintendo Switch on October 31, 2019. The main character of the game is Luigi, the popular plumber character from the Super Mario Bros. franchise.

You play the role of Luigi as you explore a haunted high-rise hotel that has different themes on each floor. You must rescue your friends from the different ghosts that inhabit the house. The game has generally received favorable reviews from both critics and gamers.

Here is the complete list of the video game rankings for the mentioned week, including the weekly and total sales so far.

Source: Famitsu, ANN