Nintendo software and hardware sales data from 1983 to present

Peleo · Feb 7, 2019

Seems like the F-Zero GX LTD might be higher than expected, at least according to this interview with Toshihiro Nagoshi:

https://gaminggamma.com/2018/08/13/...ies-world-wide/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

I've compiled the data from the OP and hope this will be useful information moving forward.

Updated as of December 2018.

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Wii Sporsts had to be split in half since it was skewing the graph too much.

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

2D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

3D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

2D & 3D MARIO SALES

Blue = 2D Mario ; Yellow = 3D Mario

ANIMAL CROSSING SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console

DONKEY KONG SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

FIRE EMBLEM SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
Only includes Western released titles

F-ZERO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
**F-Zero GX info source

KIRBY SALES

Blue = Handheld Console; Yellow = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO KART SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

MARIO PARTY SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
*Super Mario Party also lacks official sales numbers

MARIO RPG SALES

Blue = Paper Mario ; Yellow = Mario & Luigi
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO TENNIS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

METROID SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

PIKMIN SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

POKEMON SALES

Blue = Original Version ; Yellow = Third Version ; Green = Remake

SMASH BROS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

SPLATOON & ARMS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
*ARMS should be Green

STAR FOX SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

WARIO SALES

Blue = Wario Land ; Yellow = Wario Ware
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

YOSHI SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

ZELDA SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

NINTENDO HARDWARE SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

All graphs based on OP.

Celine · Apr 25, 2019

I've updated OP with data as March 2019.

The fiscal year ended March 2019 was very profitable for Nintendo, it earned the 4th best operating profits of its entire history.
NES Classic and SNES Classic shipped 120K between January and March 2019.
Nintendo is still shipping small quantities of Wii evergreen games in 2019.

Nintendo's Inventories (in million yen):

March 2017: 39,129
June 2017: 63,240
September 2017: 135,581
December 2017: 94,691
March 2018: 141,795
June 2018: 212,843
September 2018: 326,066
December 2018: 181,839
March 2019: 135,470

ILikeFeet · Apr 25, 2019

Celine said:
Nintendo is still shipping small quantities of Wii evergreen games in 2019.

Scientists need to study this in order to make sense of this anomaly

MasterChumly · Apr 25, 2019

Thanks for putting this together as always. Always interesting

TrainerRed · Apr 25, 2019

Thanks for this thread.

TheMoon · Apr 25, 2019

ILikeFeet said:
Scientists need to study this in order to make sense of this anomaly

god damn Mario Kart Wii ...people just like to punish themselves.

Deleted member 671 · Apr 25, 2019

Donkey Kong sold over 4 million with Tropical Freeze, WHERE IS DKCR3!?

Celine · Apr 25, 2019

TheMoon said:
god damn Mario Kart Wii ...people just like to punish themselves.

MKWii is what sold most on Wii in the last semester (60K if memory serves me right).

TheMoon · Apr 25, 2019

Celine said:
MKWii is what sold most on Wii in the last semester (60K if memory serves me right).

that's what I'm saying. I didn't even need to see the details. It's always MKWii. And it hurts my soul.

JaredTaco · Apr 25, 2019

Celine said:
MKWii is what sold most on Wii in the last semester (60K if memory serves me right).

I bet a lot of the Mario Kart Wii sales are people who sold/misplaced their old copy and want to play again.

This was concerning New Super Mario Bros on original DS, but I overheard a family repurchasing the game because the boy had thrown their original copy out their car window.

TheMoon · Apr 25, 2019

JaredTaco said:
I bet a lot of the Mario Kart Wii sales are people who sold/misplaced their old copy and want to play again.

This was concerning New Super Mario Bros on original DS, but I overheard a family repurchasing the game because the boy had thrown their original copy out their car window.

They should make him play Superman 64. That disrespect.

Cipherr · Apr 25, 2019

MK:Wii is frustrating to play for me these days after 8. MK8 killed that game for me, its so much better.

Deleted member 37233 · Apr 25, 2019

Cipherr said:
MK:Wii is frustrating to play for me these days after 8. MK8 killed that game for me, its so much better.

It's better than pretty much ever other Mario Kart, with the exception of Double Dash!, which is still the best of the bunch.

Limabean01 · Apr 26, 2019

Super Mario Party really has a good shot at becoming the best selling in the series

Edit: switch has an insanely good software/hardware ratio for a console this early in its life. Looking at that chart shows that it's clearly selling games like a home console rather than a portable; it's tie in ratio already exceeds that of most previous portable consoles.

Nolbertos · Apr 26, 2019

Bookmarked this thread. I love going through data, pie charts, bar graphs, etc

Celine · Apr 26, 2019

Launch aligned comparison between Switch and 3DS.
By this time (9 quarters in) 3DS already had a deep price cut and the introduction of a new model (3DS XL)

3DS (as March 2013)

HW: 31.09M
SW: 95.03M

Nintendo Top Selling Games:
Super Mario 3D Land: 8.29M
Mario Kart 7: 8.08M
NSMB2: 6.42M
Animal Crossing New Leaf: 3.86M
Nintendogs+cats: 3.28M
Zelda OoT 3D: 2.85M
Paper Mario Sticker Star: 1.97M
Pokemon Rumble Blast: 1.29M
Luigi's Mansion 2: 1.22M
Kid Icarus Uprising: 1.18M
Mario Tennis Open: 1.11M
Total: 39.55M

Switch (as March 2019)

HW: 34.74M
SW: 187.52M

Nintendo Top Selling Games:
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 16.69M
Super Mario Odyssey: 14.44M
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 13.81M
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild : 12.77M
Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu! / Let's Go Eeve!: 10.63M
Splatoon 2: 8.70M
Super Mario Party: 6.40M
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe: 3.31M
1-2-Switch: 2.97M
Mario Tennis Aces: 2.64M
Kirby Star Allies: 2.56M
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze: 2.25M
ARMS: 2.10M
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: 1.53M
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker : 1.18M
OCTOPATH TRAVELER (Outside Japan): 1.17M
Pokkén Tournament DX (Outside Japan): 1.16M
Yoshi's Crafted World: 1.11M
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit: 1.09M
Total: 106.51M

The company also was in a very different situation in March 2013 compared to March 2019.
In March 2013 had recorded the second consecutive operating losses since when Nintendo entered the video games business (-6,410Bn yen).
In March 2019 had recorded the 4th best operating income of its history (249,701Bn yen)

Deleted member 31092 · Apr 26, 2019

The difference in software sales is incredible.

Dark Cloud · Apr 26, 2019

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at 1.53 mil is the latest numbers?

Celine · Apr 26, 2019

Dark Cloud said:
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at 1.53 mil is the latest numbers?

It's the game total sales as September 2018.

Dark Cloud · Apr 26, 2019

Celine said:
It's the game total sales as September 2018.

Thanks

Deleted member 3017 · Apr 26, 2019

Celine said:
Launch aligned comparison between Switch and 3DS.
By this time (9 quarters in) 3DS already had a deep price cut and the introduction of a new model (3DS XL)

3DS (as March 2013)

HW: 31.09M
SW: 95.03M

Nintendo Top Selling Games:
Super Mario 3D Land: 8.29M
Mario Kart 7: 8.08M
NSMB2: 6.42M
Animal Crossing New Leaf: 3.86M
Nintendogs+cats: 3.28M
Zelda OoT 3D: 2.85M
Paper Mario Sticker Star: 1.97M
Pokemon Rumble Blast: 1.29M
Luigi's Mansion 2: 1.22M
Kid Icarus Uprising: 1.18M
Mario Tennis Open: 1.11M
Total: 39.55M

Switch (as March 2019)

HW: 34.74M
SW: 187.52M

Nintendo Top Selling Games:
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 16.69M
Super Mario Odyssey: 14.44M
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 13.81M
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild : 12.77M
Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu! / Let's Go Eeve!: 10.63M
Splatoon 2: 8.70M
Super Mario Party: 6.40M
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe: 3.31M
1-2-Switch: 2.97M
Mario Tennis Aces: 2.64M
Kirby Star Allies: 2.56M
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze: 2.25M
ARMS: 2.10M
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: 1.53M
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker : 1.18M
OCTOPATH TRAVELER (Outside Japan): 1.17M
Pokkén Tournament DX (Outside Japan): 1.16M
Yoshi's Crafted World: 1.11M
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit: 1.09M
Total: 106.51M

The company also was in a very different situation in March 2013 compared to March 2019.
In March 2013 had recorded the second consecutive operating losses since when Nintendo entered the video games business (-6,410Bn yen).
In March 2019 had recorded the 4th best operating income of its history (249,701Bn yen)

It's impressive to see Switch outselling 3DS launch aligned, but the software sales difference is INSANE.

Deleted member 2791 · Apr 26, 2019

Double the software sales while only being a bit above in terms of HW is crazy

ioriyagami · Apr 26, 2019

Celine said:
Launch aligned comparison between Switch and 3DS.
By this time (9 quarters in) 3DS already had a deep price cut and the introduction of a new model (3DS XL)

3DS (as March 2013)

HW: 31.09M
SW: 95.03M

Nintendo Top Selling Games:
Super Mario 3D Land: 8.29M
Mario Kart 7: 8.08M
NSMB2: 6.42M
Animal Crossing New Leaf: 3.86M
Nintendogs+cats: 3.28M
Zelda OoT 3D: 2.85M
Paper Mario Sticker Star: 1.97M
Pokemon Rumble Blast: 1.29M
Luigi's Mansion 2: 1.22M
Kid Icarus Uprising: 1.18M
Mario Tennis Open: 1.11M
Total: 39.55M

Switch (as March 2019)

HW: 34.74M
SW: 187.52M

Nintendo Top Selling Games:
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 16.69M
Super Mario Odyssey: 14.44M
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 13.81M
The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild : 12.77M
Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu! / Let's Go Eeve!: 10.63M
Splatoon 2: 8.70M
Super Mario Party: 6.40M
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe: 3.31M
1-2-Switch: 2.97M
Mario Tennis Aces: 2.64M
Kirby Star Allies: 2.56M
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze: 2.25M
ARMS: 2.10M
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: 1.53M
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker : 1.18M
OCTOPATH TRAVELER (Outside Japan): 1.17M
Pokkén Tournament DX (Outside Japan): 1.16M
Yoshi's Crafted World: 1.11M
Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit: 1.09M
Total: 106.51M

The company also was in a very different situation in March 2013 compared to March 2019.
In March 2013 had recorded the second consecutive operating losses since when Nintendo entered the video games business (-6,410Bn yen).
In March 2019 had recorded the 4th best operating income of its history (249,701Bn yen)

How are the software sales calculated? Do they include digital sales and free to play titles like Fortnite, etc.? I am having a hard time accepting the 187.52M figure for the Switch...

Deleted member 3017 · Apr 26, 2019

ioriyagami said:
How are the software sales calculated? Do they include digital sales and free to play titles like Fortnite, etc.? I am having a hard time accepting the 187.52M figure for the Switch...

They include physical-only software (like LABO) and physical+digital software (titles released both in stores and on the eShop). Meaning, digital-only software isn't counted.

plusaflag · Apr 26, 2019

ioriyagami said:
How are the software sales calculated? Do they include digital sales and free to play titles like Fortnite, etc.? I am having a hard time accepting the 187.52M figure for the Switch...

Software sales don't include the download-only titles.
So any title which can be found in the 'Download-Only' section of the eShop sales charts is not counted here.

MasterChumly · Apr 26, 2019

ioriyagami said:
How are the software sales calculated? Do they include digital sales and free to play titles like Fortnite, etc.? I am having a hard time accepting the 187.52M figure for the Switch...

That's why Nintendo released the revenue per console figure because if they included free to play titles and digital only titles the software figure would be more than doubled.

plusaflag · Apr 26, 2019

Nintendo will most probably sell its 2 billionth game on the Switch.

Madao · Apr 26, 2019

Lichtsang said:
It's better than pretty much ever other Mario Kart, with the exception of Double Dash!, which is still the best of the bunch.

for me it's the complete opposite.

MKW is still playable after 8 but i find DD to be absolute deadful to play now.

Efejota · Apr 26, 2019

JaredTaco said:
I bet a lot of the Mario Kart Wii sales are people who sold/misplaced their old copy and want to play again.

This was concerning New Super Mario Bros on original DS, but I overheard a family repurchasing the game because the boy had thrown their original copy out their car window.

I can also see it simply being that in some countries they can't afford the newest consoles or are getting them after.

My first home console was a NES and my second was a Wii, so I was playing with 15 year old games when I was a kid and couldn't care. By comparison, MKWii becomes 11 years old tomorrow in the US.

Celine · Apr 26, 2019

plusaflag said:
Nintendo will most probably sell its 2 billionth game on the Switch.

Nintendo has probably already sold more than 2 billion "first-party" games, it's just unaccounted for (publicly) because the approximation we have take in consideration only the million sellers (it's a good approximation overall but it represent a minimum).

FTF · Apr 26, 2019

That 1.42m for Super Metroid will always be the most un-deservingly low # of all time. The goat deserves so much better.

plusaflag · Apr 26, 2019

Celine said:
Nintendo has probably already sold more than 2 billion "first-party" games, it's just unaccounted for (publicly) because the approximation we have take in consideration only the million sellers (it's a good approximation overall but it represent a minimum).

Well, then their achievement is even more impressive so. Thanks for the correction.

Celine · May 1, 2019

ioriyagami said:
How are the software sales calculated? Do they include digital sales and free to play titles like Fortnite, etc.? I am having a hard time accepting the 187.52M figure for the Switch...

That figure consider only the games that have a retail version.
If such games have also a digital version then their digital sales are also included.

EDIT:
Whoops it was already answered.

Momo · Jun 12, 2019

You're probably already aware of this, but Takahashi confirmed that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 sold 1.73 million copies as of March 2019.

https://www.destructoid.com/xenobla...s-2-sold-over-1-7-million-copies-556442.phtml

Peleo · Jun 19, 2019

If anyone is interested on graphical representation of software sales per franchise:

Updated as of April 2019.

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Wii Sporsts had to be split in half since it was skewing the graph too much.

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

2D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

3D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

ANIMAL CROSSING SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console

DONKEY KONG SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

FIRE EMBLEM SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
Only includes Western released titles

F-ZERO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
**F-Zero GX info source

KIRBY SALES

Blue = Handheld Console; Yellow = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

LUIGI'S MANSION SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

MARIO KART SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

MARIO PARTY SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
*Super Mario Party also lacks official sales numbers

MARIO RPG SALES

Blue = Paper Mario ; Yellow = Mario & Luigi
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO TENNIS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

METROID SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

PIKMIN SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

POKEMON SALES

Blue = Original Version ; Yellow = Third Version ; Green = Remake

SMASH BROS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

SPLATOON & ARMS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
*ARMS should be Green

STAR FOX SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

WARIO SALES

Blue = Wario Land ; Yellow = Wario Ware
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

YOSHI SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

ZELDA SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

NINTENDO HARDWARE SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

All graphs based on OP.

MetalKhaos · Jun 19, 2019

Great work, always interesting to read over. Not even surprised that Pokemon mainline has been doing more than 5mil each.

Jbone115 · Jun 19, 2019

Thanks for all the data, Peleo!

Peleo · Jun 20, 2019

Jbone115 said:
Thanks for all the data, Peleo!

Appreciate it, but Celine is the one who deserves you thanks, for compiling all this data throughout the years.

TheMoon · Jun 20, 2019

Peleo said:
If anyone is interested on graphical representation of software sales per franchise:

Updated as of April 2018.

All graphs based on OP.

when you update it with Three Houses numbers, please fix "Echoes of valencia" (it's Shadows of Valentia)

Celine · Jun 20, 2019

Momo said:
You're probably already aware of this, but Takahashi confirmed that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 sold 1.73 million copies as of March 2019.

https://www.destructoid.com/xenobla...s-2-sold-over-1-7-million-copies-556442.phtml

Yes, I'm aware but thanks anyway.
I will update XB2 figure in the next full update (whenever I'll do it).

Limabean01 · Jun 20, 2019

Thankyou both peleo and Celine :))

Peleo said:
If anyone is interested on graphical representation of software sales per franchise:

Updated as of April 2018.

is this meant to say 2019?

Peleo · Jun 24, 2019

Limabean01 said:
is this meant to say 2019?

Yes, corrected now.

TheMoon said:
when you update it with Three Houses numbers, please fix "Echoes of valencia" (it's Shadows of Valentia)

Lol, got this one quite wrong. Will be in the next update in July, although we probably will only get official numbers by October. Quite curious to see how Three Houses will perform overall, first console FE since Radiant Dawn (12 years ago) and the franchise has never been as popular. I personally think it will fall somewhere between 3 and 4 million,.

Peleo · Aug 2, 2019

Nothing has really changed besides the addition of Super Mario Maker 2. October should be more interesting with the releases of the Switch Lite, FE3H, Awakening and some updated numbers for MK8, Ultimate and SMM2.

Updated as of July 2019.

TOP 3 GAMES PER CONSOLE

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Wii Sports had to be split in half since it was skewing the graph too much.

TOP3 GAMES PER FRANCHISE

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

2D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

3D MARIO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

ANIMAL CROSSING SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console

DONKEY KONG SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

FIRE EMBLEM SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
Only includes Western released titles

F-ZERO SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
**F-Zero GX info source

KIRBY SALES

Blue = Handheld Console; Yellow = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

LUIGI'S MANSION SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

MARIO KART SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

MARIO PARTY SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers
*Super Mario Party also lacks official sales numbers

MARIO RPG SALES

Blue = Paper Mario ; Yellow = Mario & Luigi
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

MARIO TENNIS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

METROID SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

PIKMIN SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

POKEMON SALES

Blue = Original Version ; Yellow = Third Version ; Green = Remake

SMASH BROS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

SPLATOON & ARMS SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
*ARMS should be Green

STAR FOX SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

WARIO SALES

Blue = Wario Land ; Yellow = Wario Ware
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

YOSHI SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

ZELDA SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console
Titles marked with * lack official sales numbers

NINTENDO HARDWARE SALES

Blue = Home Console ; Yellow = Handheld Console ; Green = Hybrid Console

All graphs based on OP.

AuroraMusisAmica · Aug 2, 2019

Incredible job. Thanks for your hard work!

DarkDetective · Aug 2, 2019

Amazing post Peleo !

Antony · Aug 2, 2019

What a fantastic job! Thank you :)

I'm gonna say Fire Emblem Three Houses and Animal Crossing New Horizons will become the highest selling entries in their franchises...

Limabean01 · Aug 3, 2019

Antony said:
What a fantastic job! Thank you :)

I'm gonna say Fire Emblem Three Houses and Animal Crossing New Horizons will become the highest selling entries in their franchises...

Definitely. It's looking likely that the only entries in major franchises that definitely wont set a franchise record are 2d Mario, Kirby, donkey Kong, Yoshi, and pokemon. Though even let's go is on track to set a record for a remake.

In terms of becoming the best seller of their franchise:

Mario tennis: done
Xenoblade: done
Smash: done
3d Mario: done
Zelda: done
Splatoon: done
SMM: definite
SMP: definite
FE: very likely
AC: likely
LM: likely
MK: possible
Metroid: possible

Dark Cloud · Aug 3, 2019

Limabean01 said:
Definitely. It's looking likely that the only entries in major franchises that definitely wont set a franchise record are 2d Mario, Kirby, donkey Kong, Yoshi, and pokemon. Though even let's go is on track to set a record for a remake.

In terms of becoming the best seller of their franchise:

Mario tennis: done
Xenoblade: done
Smash: done
3d Mario: done
Zelda: done
Splatoon: done
SMM: definite
SMP: definite
FE: very likely
AC: likely
LM: likely
MK: possible
Metroid: possible

Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Metroid Prime are definitely going to set records for their series. This isn't even a question.

Limabean01 · Aug 3, 2019

Dark Cloud said:
Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Metroid Prime are definitely going to set records for their series. This isn't even a question.

I mostly agree, but I am cautious to put those games on the level of the others, which have all already come out with sales figures. For LM and AC I expect them to set records, but there's always a small chance they wont.

Metroid on the other hand is still kind of a wildcard. We know literally nothing about the game nor the level of push it will get from Nintendo. However, should it be up to prime standards, and receive a decent marketing push, it's chances are extremely high.

JershJopstin · Aug 3, 2019

Limabean01 said:
In terms of becoming the best seller of their franchise:
MK: possible

Glad I'm not the only one seeing this; sales haven't even begun to taper off yet with an increase of sales this quarter YoY. Generally, it seems to go up/down with Switch sales, which makes sense. Somewhat more surprising to me is BotW putting up the same numbers this Q1 as last Q1; I know it's become synonymous with the Switch, but it's still crazy to see a Zelda game do this.

I also didn't realize that SMP may as well be over performing to the same extent that BotW is; SMP hasn't passed its series record, let alone double it, but Zelda didn't benefit all that much from the massive Wii/DS install base like MP did. Comparing SMP to MP 1-7 is mind boggling; the Switch hardware numbers at this point in time are only 12% higher than the N64, yet SMP is over double what Mario Party was doing then. I wonder if sequels will be able to do comparable numbers like they used to.

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