The Pokémon Company announced on Thursday that the Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield Nintendo Switch role-playing games sold more than six million units worldwide during their first week.
Together, Pokémon Sword/Shield broke the records for highest first-week sales of a Switch game and the fastest Switch game to reach 6 million units sold.
The games sold 2 million units in Japan in their first week.
The Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! games, the franchise’s first games for the Nintendo Switch, shipped in November 2018.