Pokémon Sword and Shield still hold the title of the 5th highest-selling Nintendo Switch game as of March 31, coming in at 40,000 copies sold less than Super Mario Odyssey.
The first DLC expansion for Pokémon Sword and Shield ‘The Isle of Armor’ is scheduled to be released by the end of June, with ‘The Crown Tundra’ scheduled for later this year.
In Nintendo’s end of year fiscal earnings report that was released on May 7, the video game giant announced that Pokémon Sword and Shield was the highest-selling Nintendo Switch game of last year, giving it the sales figures to overtake a majority of the lifetime sales of previous generations of games in the Pokémon franchise.