The game is performing very strongly
Top 5 should have KH3, RE2, Smash, NSMBU Deluxe all for sure
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December 2018 NPD Results: Switch highest selling console of 2018 by units and revenue, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate top selling game of December
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The game is performing very strongly
Top 5 should have KH3, RE2, Smash, NSMBU Deluxe all for sure
Nah, this could happen if we had digital for Nintendo but we don't. Re2 easily wins w digital.
Has anyone seen this already?
So, that's 5M as of the end of January I guess, including digital (as NoA would know that).
Since that probably includes digital, that's honestly less than I expected.
there are 10.8 million switches in the us so far
anyway "over 5" could even mean 5,4 or 5,9 for what we know
Worldwide its sold 12 million in 24 days. Thats absolutely incredible and unprecedented for any Nintendo game not named pokemon.
They did over 3.3 physical sales in December and I assume digital sales were extremely high for Smash. So it's possible it was just another 1 million in January which....alright, still pretty great.
Ah true. Classic Nintendo PR.
Less than I expected doesn't mean bad.
That's probably a 20% digital ratio or higher. Pretty good, I'd say.
Doing 1M in your second month when your first month was December is pretty darn great, I'd say. If that's a worldwide thing, and shipments were to be extrapolated, then Smash would've shipped another 3M just in January, with February and March still to come for the Q4 report, meaning it could result in a 5-6 million shipment that quarter, which is honestly too much to be reasonable.
Five japanese games in the first five spots would really be delightful.
Smash didn't sell another million in January, holidays are over.
Just dug up numbers for NSMB Wii, launched Nov 11, 2009 (NPD and Nintendo IR). I know we looked at that comp for Japan. It's not perfect, but closest comparison I can think of (1st Party / Hype / Holiday / Console) and its Q3 sales in the US are similar to Smash's, albiet with a few extra weeks.
Nintendo
FY 09 Q3: 10,550,000
FY 09 Q4: 4,150,000
FY 09 Q4: 4,150,000
Disclaimer as always - may be inaccurate or may have been adjusted by now, so take with a grain of salt
Nov 09: 1,390,000
Dec 09: 2,820,000
Jan 10: 656,700
Feb 10: 555,600
Mar 10: 457,400
Nov 09: 1,390,000
Dec 09: 2,820,000
Jan 10: 656,700
Feb 10: 555,600
Mar 10: 457,400
MC had Japan at 2,355,186 for 4 weeks of Dec and 409,565 for 4 weeks of Jan. US DEC figure of 3,592,000 includes NY week which falls in the second 4 weeks for Japan and of course, Jan hold would be stronger in Japan due to NY week relative to US. But even then, ~85% US drop would be ~539,000 retail, and if the digital share continues at assumed 20%, that's ~674,000, which is in line with NSMBWii.
That said, based on Chris's post earlier in the MC thread, it looks like digital % dropped significantly in Japan in Jan (was the Nov Smash bundle available in Japan as well?). All speculation of course.
