NPD - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sets a new launch month dollar sales record for a platform exclusive in video game history

[Prof Bathtub]

more Sakurai gifs

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The king of 2019 Tokyo.

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[AndrewDean84]

Best Smash game get best sales.

Shocking. LOL

 

[Tsosie]

Congrats Nintendo and Sakuri. Loving the game and all the content.

 

[Poimandres]

And it will likely stay in the switch top ten for the rest of its life. We are probably looking at 30M++ lifetime sales.

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Smash, BOTW, Mario Kart, Odyssey. Is it likely all of these games will remain in the Switch top 10 for the systems life? Animal Crossing is another given.

I'm not a fan of ALL of these franchises personally, but I can't help but admire the strength of Nintendo's "pillar" franchises.

 

[deep_dish]

Nintendo characters are popular

 

[Zelas]

Smash was already past 3 mil in 11 days and we don't know by how much.

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Was it out of stock the rest of the month? That would probably be a record breaking drop off.

 

[Ginosaurio]

The power of Ridley.

 

[Mobu]

 

[Deleted member 32018]

Was it out of stock the rest of the month? That would probably be a record breaking drop off.

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The 3+ mil includes digital as it was Nintendo PR, the NPD number doesn't include digital so Smash is most likely over 4 mil for the month with digital.

 

[Puroresu_kid]

Who's eating crow?

 

[Deleted member 13101]

This can be discussed in the general December NPD thread when it goes live. Thank you.