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I can't tell if >47520433 is shitposting actually this ignorant but most of the common graphs that measure sale of Pokemon games only record the first few years of scales (I think two but someone correct me if that isn't the case), likely so that older games don't have an advantage.
Also, SwSh had several advantages that most other games didn't, over 20 years of brand recognition, being on the fairly new Switch Console, a world wide pandemic that forced people to stay at home, and DLC released later to further boost sales (the only equivalent earlier games got were third versions that replaced older versions meaning those would actually hurt the sales of the originals)
