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Sales Data Updated sales numbers for Switch titles: Pokémon BDSP (13.97M), Mario Party Superstars (5.43M), Metroid Dread (2.74M), and more

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IR Information : Sales Data - Top Selling Title Sales Units

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updated sales numbers as of December 31, 2021 (+sales in the last quarter):

  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 43.35M (+4.61M)
  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 37.62 (+2.77M)
  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 27.40M (+1.69M)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 25.80M (+1.67M)
  • Pokémon Sword/Shield - 23.90M (+1.26M)
  • Super Mario Odyssey - 23.02M (+1.07M
  • Super Mario Party - 17.39M (+910K)
  • Pokémon: Let's Go! - 14.33M (+500K)
  • Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl - 13.97M
  • Ring Fit Adventure - 13.53M (+1.32M)
  • New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 12.72M (+1.24M)
  • Luigi's Mansion 3 - 11.04M (+1.45 since March 2021)
  • Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury - 8.85M (+1.40M)
  • Mario Party Superstars - 5.43M
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD - 3.85M (+250K)
  • Metroid Dread - 2.74M
  • New Pokémon Snap - 2.36M (+170K, not including sales in Japan)
  • Mario Golf: Super Rush - 2.26M (+320K)
  • Miitopia - 1.63M (+260K)
  • Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain - 1.28M
  • WarioWare: Get It Together! - 1.24M
  • Game Builder Garage - 1.01M
 
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Happy to see big time numbers for Metroid Dread and Mario Party Superstars, both my favorite new instalments in those franchises in like 20 years
 
Those Diamond and Pearl numbers are insane. Also Metroid Dread did great
 
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1M for Game Builder Garage is actually quite good, right? I wouldn't expect that at all.

On the other hand, I don't know anything about historic WarioWare sales. I feel 1.24M is quite average or even a little disappointing, but, I don't know, maybe it's amazing!
 
Great to see Dread is already nearly the best selling game in the series. WarioWare passing a million is nice too.

Hopefully with the success of Dread and partnering with Nintendo Mercury Steam realise they need to be treating their employees better.
 
absolutely insane numbers for most games
nice to see warioware and GBG get to the 1 million point

edit: 29 million sellers in FY2022 so far, including 7 third party games
 
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Those Mario Kart numbers are absurd, Jesus. Who still hasn't bought Mario Kart by now!

Great results for Dread, it probably won't hit 5 million but I imagine it'll settle around 4-4.5 million lifetime.
 
Samus is doing amazing, sweetie!

Also, MK8DX is absolutely disgusting, good lord.
 
Holy shit, almost 14 million units for BDSP in a month and a half is insane. That's almost as much as Let's Go's lifetime sales and not far off from ORAS. Unless its sales crater immediately, it's gonna easily become the best selling Pokemon remakes.

Also of note: Pokemon SWSH are now the second best pair of games in the core series besides Red/Green/Blue - they finally beat Gold and Silver. Pokemon on Switch is a goldmine.

Mario Kart keeps selling. What a trooper. 3D World + Bowser's Fury is a bigger success on Switch than Wii U, very deserved. Metroid Dread is almost the best selling game in its series, WarioWare cracked a million (and you all should buy it). Big Brain Academy sold a million in less than a month. Mario Party Superstars did well and Super Mario Party continues to sell. Just insane sales number after insane sales number here.
 
Incredible numbers all around. My only disappointment is Skyward Sword, I thought it could push at least 5M in its first year, but sales fell off a cliff.
 
Pokémon Legends is going to have an insane year if BDSP is any indication. Hope people took the over on those 20 million unit bets.
 
Some excellent results there. Dread had about as strong an opening quarter as you could hope for, and it's good to see the 'smaller' titles doing the business too - WarioWare, Big Brain Academy, Game Builder Garage. Evergreens chugging along brilliantly, as always, and nice to have updated numbers for Luigi's Mansion 3.

I'd say the one disappointment that quarter is Skyward Sword HD. Fairly weak second quarter for the game, really. Dread's performance is great, though.
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Incredible numbers all around. My only disappointment is Skyward Sword, I thought it could push at least 5M in its first year, but sales fell off a cliff.
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I'd agree it's had a disappointing second quarter, but that's also the total after 5 months. It has another 7 months before it's been on the market for a year.
 
Have anyone checked how BOTW, Smash Ultimate and AC:NH are doing compared to the collective sales of the previous 3D Zeldas/Smash games/mainline ACs?
 
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MisterSpo said:
Some excellent results there. Dread had about as strong an opening quarter as you could hope for, and it's good to see the 'smaller' titles doing the business too - WarioWare, Big Brain Academy, Game Builder Garage. Evergreens chugging along brilliantly, as always, and nice to have updated numbers for Luigi's Mansion 3.

I'd say the one disappointment that quarter is Skyward Sword HD. Fairly weak second quarter for the game, really. Dread's performance is great, though.

I'd agree it's had a disappointing second quarter, but that's also the total after 5 months. It has another 7 months before it's been on the market for a year.
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I don't see it pushing over a million units in the coming months, if it did 250k over the holiday period, I think the most it will do is another 300k over the next 7 months. I hope I'm wrong
 
BDSP already outsold HGSS, and will outsell the original DP next time we get numbers. just crazy.
 
4 million for Dread seems like a lock.

Amazing game, on of my favourites of the franchise along Prime and Super, and for me one of the best games of the generation with BOTW, GoW 2018 and Bloodborne.

Proud of my countrymates at Mercury Steam, we have a lot of talent in Spain, we just need investment, which seems impossible with our fucked economy system ruled by corrupt assholes, both from right and left wing.

NOTE: Fuck Enric Alvarez, hope it flies away from MS as soon as possible, what a toxic and slavery person.
 
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I don't see it pushing over a million units in the coming months, if it did 250k over the holiday period, I think the most it will do is another 300k over the next 7 months. I hope I'm wrong
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I'd be surprised if it slows to that extent, even if this quarter was disappointing.
 
It's pretty amazing how "sales disappointment" for Skyward Sword means "we didn't outsell the original release of this game harder than we already did," huh. Goes to show the scale of these Nintendo sales numbers.
 
Skyward Sword's numbers make sense to me given that this was a game already on a huge install base with the Wii, even if it was a decade ago. I doubt there's much room for growth there. Nintendo didn't really advertise it much either, to be honest.

Personally as someone who bought it on Wii, there wasn't enough added to warrant a 60 dollar price tag. I wonder how many felt similarly.
 
I was really hoping Metroid would do more than 3m. I know it will be the biggest sales in the series, but as the big non-Pokemon holiday release with an insane install base, it would have to be a disaster not to be. It's a phenomenal game and I really hope it hits 5m, but I'm not sure it'll be an evergreen like their other software. Kind disappointed tbh.

13.5m for Ring Fit is simply insane, and 200% deserved. One of Nintendo's greatest successes in the past decade, imo, and the most truly "Nintendo" thing they've done in years. The cheap peripheral + inspired software combo leading to pure magic... that is Nintendo.

Sad to see Diamond / Pearl success. Couldn't get through more than 5 hours of it. Just a bland, phoned in effort. Probably the nadir of current pokemon. Fortunately PLA arrived to make me feel great about the series again.

Interesting that Skyward Sword hasn't been able to ride the BotW bump to more than a fifth of those sales. Always suspected that as it just doesn't scratch the same itch. My 11 year old nephew got it for Xmas and soon quit and went back to BotW. He couldn't understand how the "new Zelda" felt so much more backwards than the "old one". I had to explain that it's actually a decade old game, lol. I'm sure a lot of kids dropped it quick and word of mouth on the playground probably wasn't great.
 
Mekanos said:
Skyward Sword's numbers make sense to me given that this was a game already on a huge install base with the Wii, even if it was a decade ago. I doubt there's much room for growth there. Nintendo didn't really advertise it much either, to be honest.

Personally as someone who bought it on Wii, there wasn't enough added to warrant a 60 dollar price tag. I wonder how many felt similarly.
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Given the success of BotW, you would expect more people would have given it a shot. That's what surprises me and makes me doubt that BotW2 will perform in the same league of the original.
 
Barely Able said:
Do we have any indication on what the original Hyrule Warriors sold or is that technically published by KoeiTecmo?
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Ah, it should actually be there are the bottom with Pokken Tournament. We know it passed 1m worldwide but Koei Tecmo never shared a specific number beyond that.
 
LonkFromPA said:
Given the success of BotW, you would expect more people would have given it a shot. That's what surprises me and makes me doubt that BotW2 will perform in the same league of the original.
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I don’t think sales of Skyward Sword HD really have anything to do with how BOTW2 performs. But I do believe it will sell less than the original.
 
LonkFromPA said:
Given the success of BotW, you would expect more people would have given it a shot. That's what surprises me and makes me doubt that BotW2 will perform in the same league of the original.
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I mean, to be fair, while BotW has shared DNA with Skyward Sword, the two are extremely different games structurally. People looking for a big, open world exploration game aren't going to get that with Skyward Sword. Doesn't help that it's the appetizer to the known quantity and main course of BotW 2. I can see a lot of people going, "That's cool but not for me, I'll wait for BotW 2."
 
LonkFromPA said:
Given the success of BotW, you would expect more people would have given it a shot. That's what surprises me and makes me doubt that BotW2 will perform in the same league of the original.
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I can already tell you with or without SSHD BotW 2 won’t be selling in the same league as BotW. BotW is on pace for 30 million.
 
LonkFromPA said:
Given the success of BotW, you would expect more people would have given it a shot. That's what surprises me and makes me doubt that BotW2 will perform in the same league of the original.
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Skyward Sword HD is a radically different type of Zelda experience, though. It's always been the case that we should be careful about expecting the older style to have massively more appeal, even if I'd still say there's higher demand for Zelda than there was previously. This relatively disappointing performance from Skyward Sword HD puts it close to the top 10 for Zelda sales. I'd be interested to see where this one has landed by early 2023; after a similar period of time, Link's Awakening hit 5.49 million.

Skyward Sword HD was a remaster of a divisive game. Breath of the Wild 2 is going to be the sequel to Switch's defining game - I'd still expect big things from that.
 
LonkFromPA said:
Given the success of BotW, you would expect more people would have given it a shot. That's what surprises me and makes me doubt that BotW2 will perform in the same league of the original.
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Lol nah, Skyward Sword is the complete polar opposite of BotW, is a remaster of a decade-old Wii game that didn't even sell that well (by Zelda standards) initially, and tbh it just kinda sucks ass. It's not really comparable to the hypothetical sales of BotW2.
 
Heron said:
I was really hoping Metroid would do more than 3m. I know it will be the biggest sales in the series, but as the big non-Pokemon holiday release with an insane install base, it would have to be a disaster not to be. It's a phenomenal game and I really hope it hits 5m, but I'm not sure it'll be an evergreen like their other software. Kind disappointed tbh.
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Metroid definitely won't be an evergreen and there should have never been any expectation that it would be one. It's a dark, gritty sci-fi 2D platformer with difficult gameplay (compared to most Nintendo games), the general appeal for it is pretty low. The fact is that even on consoles with big install bases like the GBA (>80 million) 2D Metroid has struggled to break even a million. By all accounts this is a huge success and a big breakthrough for the franchise.

Japan is also a huge market for Nintendo historically and I don't know how Dread did there but historically Metroid is niche there, which is going to keep it from being in the higher tier of Nintendo IPs.
 
Before Breath of the Wild, my Zelda Sales Theory ran that the Horseback Riding In A Field Zelda would be the more popular ones because that had become the iconic and defining mainstream image of the series post Ocarina.

Sorry, Nintendo, but flying around on a bird just doesn't cut it.
 
Mekanos said:
Metroid definitely won't be an evergreen and there should have never been any expectation that it would be one. It's a dark, gritty sci-fi 2D platformer with difficult gameplay (compared to most Nintendo games), the general appeal for it is pretty low. The fact is that even on consoles with big install bases like the GBA (>80 million) 2D Metroid has struggled to break even a million. By all accounts this is a huge success and a big breakthrough for the franchise.

Japan is also a huge market for Nintendo historically and I don't know how Dread did there but historically Metroid is niche there, which is going to keep it from being in the higher tier of Nintendo IPs.
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I think you make a good point that this is a 2d game. It can't be compared to the Prime series, which probably have a far higher sales potential. I was taking the series as a whole and not making that distinction.

We're also in an era where 2d games are seen as lesser value, and rarely cost $60. So I was hoping this would be Metroid's "Fire Emblem Awakening" moment, where sales jump 2-3 times previous highs, but I suppose if you look solely at the 2d Metroids, this is close to that.

That's good perspective. I do hope Prime 4 (if a good game) would push 5 million. You see Luigi's Mansion, a strange, niche kind of game selling 11m+ and you feel like any critically acclaimed Nintendo game should be able to get to 5m lol

Still though. 2.3m sell through. I wanted more.
 
Seems more and more like 10 million units are becoming the base for a "successful" Switch game for Nintendo:
  • There are currently 13 first party titles with 10+ million units sold (Splatoon 2 wasn't updated this quarter, but it's on the list as well)
  • The 10th position for the Switch software (Ring Fit) is at almost the same number of sales as the lifetime Wii U hardware sales
  • Only 4 games on the 3DS sold as much to get on the top 10 for Switch software, while it's 7 for both DS and Wii.

I wonder if Minecraft has sold more than 10+ million units on the Switch?
 
Metroid Dread will never hit 5 million. All I knew was it was going to be the best selling Metroid game ever.
 
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Can we revisit the fans of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe vs all of the people in Canada thread? lol

I’m happy Metroid Dread did relatively well, but even though it was never certain I was hoping it would hit three million by this point because I’m not sure how strong the legs are given how big this quarter is for games. Anecdotally, I couldn’t convince anyone new to jump on Dread who hadn’t had previous exposure to the series even after they were interested in its initial reveal. Metroid Prime 4 definitely has more going for it, but I hope Dread can become the best selling Metroid game before it to lock in the 2D series future.

Does anyone have the Metroid series sales data? Mainly just curious what’s ahead of Dread at this point. Edit: Post 91 has this for anyone interested. Thanks Mazi!
 
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New Pokémon Snap still needs ~1m to reach the original, not sure if it's going to do that.

SSHD seems to have done okay for what it is, especially considering the game it's based on. Dread did great imo, very close to overtaking Prime.

The rest is just insane...
 
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Heron said:
I think you make a good point that this is a 2d game. It can't be compared to the Prime series, which probably have a far higher sales potential. I was taking the series as a whole and not making that distinction.

We're also in an era where 2d games are seen as lesser value, and rarely cost $60. So I was hoping this would be Metroid's "Fire Emblem Awakening" moment, where sales jump 2-3 times previous highs, but I suppose if you look solely at the 2d Metroids, this is close to that.

That's good perspective. I do hope Prime 4 (if a good game) would push 5 million. You see Luigi's Mansion, a strange, niche kind of game selling 11m+ and you feel like any critically acclaimed Nintendo game should be able to get to 5m lol

Still though. 2.3m sell through. I wanted more.
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I thought Dread hit 2.7 million?
 
I would have thought Skyward Sword had a good chance of matching Links Awakening at 5.7m.

Now I'm not so sure.
 
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