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Sales Data Updated sales numbers for Switch titles: Pikmin 4 (2.61M), Tears of the Kingdom (19.50M), and more

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Phendrift said:
I don’t think Aonuma was lying about being done with BotW/TotK Hyrule, so the question of new content to TotK becomes much more interesting.

Zelda is the biggest mystery for the Switch 2 launch year right now. It’s such an important IP to Nintendo now that they’ve got to have something, but the release times don’t line up well to make it easily predictable. Like how with Mario we’re all pretty much on the 3D Mario train because… it’s time, and it’s been time for a while.

There’s multiple ways they could take it, TotK performance-boosted seems like a given but I feel like they’d want even more. I think they’re done with this Hyrule for real, so maybe a separate, smaller, Bowser’s Fury-like side game that takes place in a different area and throws some experimental new mechanics in?

They could also go in the direction of a Demon’s Souls PS5-esque remake for one of the classic 3D Zeldas that’s not as demanding on the game side as the open air games, but really pushes visuals/performance as kind of a showcase for the new hardware.
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Yeah I like to imagine them doing a shorter side game; Link being stranded on an (sky-)island (once again) and there is some cool mechanic (time loop hehe) that is tied in a story of a small village that gets threatened by something dark.
 
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While BotW was originally a Wii U game, it sold more on Switch since it was a launch title, and thus can be considered to be more of a Switch title instead. TotK (aswell as Splatoon 3) are games that released as Switch original titles in the last 2 years of the Switch lifespan. They are guaranteed to sell less, + the fact that most people probably don't need another Splatoon and Zelda on the Switch, if they already had BotW and Splatoon 2. I would've bet that TotK and Splatoon 3 would've sold so much better if they were released on the Switch 2/successor then what they are released on now. But that's my take.
 
that like half of Pikmin's entire sales are from Japan feels a little silly

it does feel like it's like not going to catch on as anything mainstream but solid numbers for a franchise nonetheless

(already more than ARMS in 6 years😭)
 
People on this forum lost sight of just how big an ask it was going to be for TOTK to to surpass BOTW's sales so we shouldn't be surprised that there's been a slowdown in sales. It's still a great number and it should keep on selling a million or so every quarter, but it's incredibly unlikely it'll catch its predecessor.

A good result for Pikmin 4, definitely places it in the Kirby/Metroid tier of Nintendo franchises now.
 
Revolsin said:
that half of Pikmin's entire sales from Japan feels a little silly

it does feel like it's like not going to catch on as anything mainstream but solid numbers for a franchise nonetheless

(already more than ARMS in 6 years😭)
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RTS is a very niche genre, the fact that P4 will sell over 3 million lifetime is a huge accomplishment all in all. Maybe it'll even get a new Smash character now!

The Japanese/international split is pretty funny though. Feel like we almost never see that split nowadays outside of series like Dragon Quest.
 
AngryAlchemist said:
Worth nothing about Tears of the Kingdom's steep drop - when it was announced it sold 18.5 million, that was shipped, and it's sell-through was reported at something like 15 to 15.5 million. That means there were 3.5 million copies on the shelf at the end of that reported quarter. So this doesn't necessarily mean people stopped by Tears in its second quarter, it means there wasn't many new shipments / digital sales.

Pikmin 4 almost exactly on track with Metroid Dread (2.61 mil in 71 days vs 2.74 mil in 84 days)
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Came here to say this and I'm signal boosting this post in an attempt to stop this thread from devolving into "omg Zelda legs bad, here's y".

Tears of the Kingdom is a rare case where we actually have sell-through figures as well as shipment figures from Nintendo in their last sales report. Roughly 3 million copies were either in transit to retailers, in warehouses or on store shelves at the end of the last quarter. In the current quarter, Nintendo shipped an additional 990k (including digital sales direct to consumers); for context, 330k per month would give Tears of the Kingdom almost twice the pace of every other evergreen Nintendo title bar Mario Kart right now. However, the key point here is that second quarter had several million copies of Tears on shelves to sell through to consumers. We don't know anything much about the game's legs yet because we don't have any real data, and retailers weren't going to purchase more copies when millions were already on the market ready to be sold.

This is a phenomenon we've seen with lots of second quarter reporting for Nintendo titles in the last couple of years; lots of people roaring 'legs bad' without really thinking through what we're seeing, whereby Nintendo will have shipped many copies for launch and then not necessarily needed to ship many more the next quarter. Tears is no doubt an exaggerated case; few, if any Nintendo titles would have had several million copies shipped but not yet sold in such a short space of time. I know it's far less fun to actually wait for a meaningful amount of data before prognosticating on the Internet, but we're really not going to get a clear idea of how Tears is doing until next spring when Nintendo share fiscal year numbers. By that point it'll have had the first holiday quarter and another regular quarter on the market.

Anyway, super launch figures for Pikmin 4, and Switch Sports confirmed in the 10 million plus club. Super Mario Party and Tears will join the 20 million plus club in the next update, too.
 
Software Top 10

Total sales followed by sales added to the total in Q2

  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 57.01m + 1.55m
  • Animal Crossing New Horizons: 43.38m + 590k
  • Super Smash Bros Ultimate: 32.44m + 670k
  • Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild: 31.15m + 500k
  • Super Mario Odyssey: 26.95m + 510k
  • Pokémon Sword/Shield: 26.02m + 100k
  • Pokémon Scarlet/Violet: 23.23m + 570k
  • Super Mario Party: 19.66m + 270k
  • Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: 19.50 + 990k
  • New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe: 16.70m + 530k

New Release + Others

  • Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury: 12.58m + 1.20m (Q1+Q2)
  • Mario Party Superstars: 11.44m + 1.27m (Q1+Q2)
  • Nintendo Switch Sports: 10.77m + 1.17m (Q1+Q2)
  • Pikmin 4: 2.61M New

Million Sellers not updated this Quarter (1st party published)

  • Ring Fit Adventure: 15.38m
  • Pokémon Let's Go: 15.07m
  • Pokémon BD/SP: 15.06m
  • Pokémon Legends Arceus: 14.83m
  • Splatoon 2: 13.60m
  • Luigi's Mansion 3: 12.82m
  • Splatoon 3: 10.67m
  • Super Mario 3D All-Stars: 9.07m
  • Super Mario Maker 2: 8.42m
  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land: 6.46m
  • Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening: 6.46m
  • Clubhouse Games: 4.64m
  • Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze: 4.62m
  • Mario Tennis Aces: 4.50m
  • Kirby Star Allies: 4.38m
  • Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword HD: 4.15m
  • Fire Emblem Three Houses: 4.12m
  • Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity: 4.00m
  • 1-2 Switch: 3.74m
  • Paper Mario Origami King: 3.47m
  • Yoshi's Crafted World: 3.35m
  • Metroid Dread: 3.07m
  • New Pokémon Snap!: 2.74m
  • Arms: 2.72m
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2: 2.70m
  • Mario Strikers Battle League: 2.54m
  • Mario Golf Super Rush: 2.48m
  • Pikmin 3 Deluxe: 2.40m
  • Captain Toad Treasure Tracker: 2.35m
  • Octopath Traveller: 2.08m
  • Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: 2.00m
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon DX: 1.99m
  • Big Brain Academy Brain vs Brain: 1.94m
  • Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition: 1.88m
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3: 1.86m
  • Miitopia: 1.79m
  • Mario Kart Live Home Circuit: 1.73m
  • Fire Emblem Engage: 1.61m
  • Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: 1.60m
  • Pokkén Tournament DX: 1.54m
  • Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe: 1.46m
  • Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01 Variety Kit: 1.42m
  • Wario Ware Get it Together!: 1.34m
  • Astral Chain: 1.33m
  • Dr Kawashima's Brain training: 1.27m
  • Bayonetta: 1.24m
  • Bayonetta 2: 1.23m
  • Game Builder Garage: 1.15m
  • Metroid Prime Remastered: 1.09m
  • Bayonetta 3: 1.07m
  • Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes: 1.00m
 
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I don't understand people that are shocked by TotK and where it's at.
The game hasn't even seen a holiday yet, so it will continue to sell well into the next year...
 
Revolsin said:
that like half of Pikmin's entire sales are from Japan feels a little silly

it does feel like it's like not going to catch on as anything mainstream but solid numbers for a franchise nonetheless

(already more than ARMS in 6 years😭)
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Keep in mind this is one quarter before holidays, I think 3-4 mil is very realistic still

Anyway it’s nice to see scarlet and violet doing well, say what you will about the quality but the gameplay is a giant departure for mainline Pokémon, as well as having the most courage in it out of a msot any Pokémon game, that ending is one of a kind in the series.

So I think it’s good that this wasn’t a lot lower than swsh, which were lazy slop in everything but the ost, it’s Pokémon at its most safeand generic.


Tidy up the tech issues and make the whole next game like a giant area zero and that’ll be the best Pokémon game made (and hopefully the best selling)
 
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Pikmin 3 Deluxe, from the far weaker Pikmin series, at 2,4M units sold. Its sequel, Pikmin 4, at 2,61M.

1-2-Switch, from the far stronger and critically aclaimed 1-2-Switch series, at 3,74M. Its sequel, Everybody's Bojack, not even accounting for a million. A sad day for videogames as an art.
 
Looks like Pikmin has established itself as a "strong Japan" series similar to Splatoon, since most of the sales came from there. I guess it will cross at least 3M once all is said and done.
 
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Apenknul said:
While BotW was originally a Wii U game, it sold more on Switch since it was a launch title, and thus can be considered to be more of a Switch title instead. TotK (aswell as Splatoon 3) are games that released as Switch original titles in the last 2 years of the Switch lifespan. They are guaranteed to sell less, + the fact that most people probably don't need another Splatoon and Zelda on the Switch, if they already had BotW and Splatoon 2. I would've bet that TotK and Splatoon 3 would've sold so much better if they were released on the Switch 2/successor then what they are released on now. But that's my take.
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TOTK has sold aprox 5X more than BOTW in its first 5 months on the market. It's done alright for itself so far.
 
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wel the big question now is how many of these are kept on sale when the switch 2 is the only focus.

The switch will proabably see stuff till 2026ish but I wonder if they keep games like wonder and Zelda around anyway, it’s not like there’s going to be an entry any time soon for those two.
 
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Kreese said:
TOTK has sold aprox 5X more than BOTW in it's first 5 months on the market. It's done alright for itself so far.
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This is expected as BOTW was bounded by Switch install base. Even so, in the same timeframe, the game managed to sell 3.92 millions while Switch was at 4.7 million.
 
balgajo said:
This is expected as BOTW was bounded by Switch install base. Even so, in the same timeframe, the game managed to sell 3.92 millions while Switch was at 4.7 million.
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There are a lot of variables but both titles will just keep on selling. Two evergreens. I just expect TOTK to have the lions share of all sales moving forward as it's the newer and more desirable instalment. The same will hold true next quarter and likely all quarters thereafter. It should eventually pass BOTW as we are years into next gen.
 
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Kreese said:
There are a lot of variables but both titles will just keep on selling. Two evergreens. I just expect TOTK to have the lions share of all sales moving forward as it's the newer and more desirable instalment. The same will hold true next quarter and likely all quarters thereafter. It should eventually pass BOTW as we are years into next gen.
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We can say with absolute certainty now that It will never under any circumstances pass BOTW.

The start and following quarter was far too weak for that to be possible. We've seen that categorically across Nintendo's first party library that games are far more frontloaded , which is the most obvious thing in the world to explain because the audience already all have the console. Even in the most optimistic scenarios, there's only about 30m or so possible sales the hardware could possibly get, and if those were specifically holding out for totk, they'd already have bought it.

And this shouldn't surprise anyone; BOTW reinvented an entire genre and reinvigorated a series, TOTK didn't do any of that, because the groundwork was already there.

It's the same way a ton of people have a lot of good things to say about OOT despite the sequels all mechanically and graphically being improvements, only one of them got there in sales, and the rest far short. And twilight Princess only got there because of the massive success of the Wii, and being the flagship game, an advantage that can't be held over Botw because it was also both of those things.
 
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IR Information : Sales Data - Top Selling Title Sales Units

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updated sales numbers as of September 30, 2023 (+sales in the last quarter):
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 57.01M (+1.55M)
  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 43.38M (+590K)
  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 32.44M (+670K)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 31.15M (+500K)
  • Super Mario Odyssey - 26.95M (+510K)
  • Pokémon Sword and Shield - 26.02M (+100K)
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet - 23.23M (+570K)
  • Super Mario Party - 19.66M (+270K)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - 19.50M (+990K)
  • New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 16.70M (+530K)
  • Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury - 12.58M (+1.2M since March 2023)
  • Mario Party Superstars - 11.44M (+1.27M since March 2023)
  • Nintendo Switch Sports - 10.77M (+1.17M since March 2023)
  • Pikmin 4 - 2.61M
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WOW Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is almost at 60 milions units sold.
 
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Phendrift said:
I don’t think Aonuma was lying about being done with BotW/TotK Hyrule, so the question of new content to TotK becomes much more interesting.

Zelda is the biggest mystery for the Switch 2 launch year right now. It’s such an important IP to Nintendo now that they’ve got to have something, but the release times don’t line up well to make it easily predictable. Like how with Mario we’re all pretty much on the 3D Mario train because… it’s time, and it’s been time for a while.

There’s multiple ways they could take it, TotK performance-boosted seems like a given but I feel like they’d want even more. I think they’re done with this Hyrule for real, so maybe a separate, smaller, Bowser’s Fury-like side game that takes place in a different area and throws some experimental new mechanics in?

They could also go in the direction of a Demon’s Souls PS5-esque remake for one of the classic 3D Zeldas that’s not as demanding on the game side as the open air games, but really pushes visuals/performance as kind of a showcase for the new hardware.
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what if Jeff Grubb/Serkan Toto claims about a new Legend of Zelda are true, and is a brand new 2D Legend of Zelda or a remake of a well beloved Zelda(a very ambitous Ocarina of Time/Twilight Princess remake, i doubt about this rumors, but a brand new 2D Legend of Zelda would be excelent for Nintendo next hardware)
 
NineTailSage said:
I don't understand people that are shocked by TotK and where it's at.
The game hasn't even seen a holiday yet, so it will continue to sell well into the next year...
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It sold through 15.7 million of those 18.5 million shipped and reported last quarter so there was a gap of 2.8 million between shipped and sold through, that is a lot of unsold inventory leftover from last quarter. So even though they only shipped 990k in Q2 they probably sold far more.
 
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I sadly can’t find the pikmin 4 sell prediction thread so I’ll just write here.
Pikmin 4 launch was above fe threehouses (2.61 vs 2.21) with the same launch window, 3mil+ is guaranteed and it can easily go past 4mil even if we’ll probably have to wait for the white papers for that. 5mil is probably a stretch but it will probably outsell both pikmin 3 versions combined.
 
Luminoth9090 said:
It sold through 15.7 million of those 18.5 million shipped reported last quarter so there was a gap of 2.8 million between shipped and sold through, that is a lot of unsold inventory leftover from last quarter. So even though they only shipped 990k in Q2 they probably sold far more.
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Keep fighting the good fight so we can put the 'weak second quarter' to bed, compadre.

Here's a link to that report, if people want to see the numbers for themselves; skip to page 12 to see confirmation of Tears of the Kingdom sell-through.
 
Kreese said:
There are a lot of variables but both titles will just keep on selling. Two evergreens. I just expect TOTK to have the lions share of all sales moving forward as it's the newer and more desirable instalment. The same will hold true next quarter and likely all quarters thereafter. It should eventually pass BOTW as we are years into next gen.
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Even if BOTW starts selling 0 copies from now on - which won't happen - TOTK could sell a million copies each quarter and it would still take 3 years to reach it. Sorry but it's a huge mountain it has to climb, BOTW has just had too big a head start and TOTK just doesn't have the time to catch up. Let's not forget (because everyone always does) that BOTW also sold an additional 2 million units(ish) via the Wii U version, which makes TOTK's task even harder.

TOTK will comfortably sell 25 million+ and we should be very happy with this, but expecting it to surpass its predecessor is unrealistic.
 
Luminoth9090 said:
It sold through 15.7 million of those 18.5 million shipped reported last quarter so there was a gap of 2.8 million between shipped and sold through, that is a lot of unsold inventory leftover from last quarter. So even though they only shipped 990k in Q2 they probably sold far more.
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Ahhh, that's a good point, too. Yeah, this is the quarter where it moved the unsold launch quarter stock.
 
more updated numbers
  • Index
    • We've got some potential surprise bonus updates for certain games as of June 2023 (not September like the officially presented numbers today) courtesy of Pierre, it seems.


    • Pokémon Legends: Arceus - 15.00m (+170k since March 2023)
    • Splatoon 3 - 11.02m (+350k since March 2023)
    • Kirby and the Forgotten Land - 6.70m (+240k since March 2023)
    • The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - 6.63m (+170k since December 2022)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 2.74m (+40k since December 2022)
    • Mario Strikers: Battle League - 2.63m (+90k since March 2023)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - 1.91m (+30k since December 2022)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 1.91m (+50k since March 2023)
    • Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe - 1.82m (+360k since March 2023)
    • Fire Emblem Engage - 1.68m (+70k since March 2023)
    • Metroid Prime Remastered - 1.36m (+270k since March 2023)
    • Bayonetta 3 - 1.09m (+20k since March 2023)
    One notable milestone from this: Link's Awakening remake would be the best selling 2D Zelda of all time (passing Zelda 1 at 6.51m).
     
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    • Overall Zelda will be fine. From what I can see & read they seem to have overshipped. We’ll probably need to wait until next FYQ1 to have an idea of what legs may look like.
    • Pikmin 4 did good with what looks like JP becoming a stable region for it, if it remains at these levels.
    • Splatoon 3 editing with the post above did fine as well. With Side Order & further DLC legs will continue to truck on
     
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    Galgavias said:
    Even if BOTW starts selling 0 copies from now on - which won't happen - TOTK could sell a million copies each quarter and it would still take 3 years to reach it. Sorry but it's a huge mountain it has to climb, BOTW has just had too big a head start and TOTK just doesn't have the time to catch up. Let's not forget (because everyone always does) that BOTW also sold an additional 2 million units(ish) via the Wii U version, which makes TOTK's task even harder.

    TOTK will comfortably sell 25 million+ and we should be very happy with this, but expecting it to surpass its predecessor is unrealistic.
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    Why are you allotting a time frame when both of these games will be legging it out for the next decade? They're not going to stop selling if Switch 2 has BC and doubly so if there are new iterations released.
     
    Linkstrikesback said:
    We can say with absolute certainty now that It will never under any circumstances pass BOTW.

    The start and following quarter was far too weak for that to be possible. We've seen that categorically across Nintendo's first party library that games are far more frontloaded , which is the most obvious thing in the world to explain because the audience already all have the console. Even in the most optimistic scenarios, there's only about 30m or so possible sales the hardware could possibly get, and if those were specifically holding out for totk, they'd already have bought it.

    And this shouldn't surprise anyone; BOTW reinvented an entire genre and reinvigorated a series, TOTK didn't do any of that, because the groundwork was already there.

    It's the same way a ton of people have a lot of good things to say about OOT despite the sequels all mechanically and graphically being improvements, only one of them got there in sales, and the rest far short. And twilight Princess only got there because of the massive success of the Wii, and being the flagship game, an advantage that can't be held over Botw because it was also both of those things.
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    No... no we can't.
    Luminoth9090 said:
    It sold through 15.7 million of those 18.5 million shipped reported last quarter so there was a gap of 2.8 million between shipped and sold through, that is a lot of unsold inventory leftover from last quarter. So even though they only shipped 990k in Q2 they probably sold far more.
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    MondoMega said:
    We've got some surprise bonus updates for certain games as of June 2023 (not September like the officially presented numbers today) courtesy of Pierre, it seems.


    • Pokémon Legends: Arceus - 15.00m (+170k since March 2023)
    • Splatoon 3 - 11.02m (+350k since March 2023)
    • Kirby and the Forgotten Land - 6.70m (+240k since March 2023)
    • The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - 6.63m (+170k since December 2022)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 2.74m (+40k since December 2022)
    • Mario Strikers: Battle League - 2.63m (+90k since March 2023)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - 1.91m (+30k since December 2022)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 1.91m (+50k since March 2023)
    • Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe - 1.82m (+360k since March 2023)
    • Fire Emblem Engage - 1.68m (+70k since March 2023)
    • Metroid Prime Remastered - 1.36m (+270k since March 2023)
    • Bayonetta 3 - 1.09m (+20k since March 2023)
    One notable milestone from this: Link's Awakening remake is now the best selling 2D Zelda of all time (passing Zelda 1 at 6.51m).
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    Still annoyed with the way Nintendo handled Metroid Prime Remastered. Especially since this year didn't bring any Prime 4 news.
     
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    Assuming Switch 2 will be backward compatible, TOTK is going to be selling for years and years until the next Zelda drops, and we're entering its first holiday period after the last quarter had to sort through its significant unsold inventory. Its success story is far from over.

    Anyway, Super fucking Mario!!!!
     
    Decoyman said:
    Assuming Switch 2 will be backward compatible, TOTK is going to be selling for years and years until the next Zelda drops, and we're entering its first holiday period after the last quarter had to sort through its significant unsold inventory. Its success story is far from over.

    Anyway, Super fucking Mario!!!!
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    So is BOTW, which is a large part of the discussion. BOTW shoved another half a million units in to the market despite ostensibly being replaced by a sequel that on paper is better than it.
     
    MondoMega said:
    We've got some surprise bonus updates for certain games as of June 2023 (not September like the officially presented numbers today) courtesy of Pierre, it seems.


    • Pokémon Legends: Arceus - 15.00m (+170k since March 2023)
    • Splatoon 3 - 11.02m (+350k since March 2023)
    • Kirby and the Forgotten Land - 6.70m (+240k since March 2023)
    • The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - 6.63m (+170k since December 2022)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 2.74m (+40k since December 2022)
    • Mario Strikers: Battle League - 2.63m (+90k since March 2023)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - 1.91m (+30k since December 2022)
    • Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 1.91m (+50k since March 2023)
    • Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe - 1.82m (+360k since March 2023)
    • Fire Emblem Engage - 1.68m (+70k since March 2023)
    • Metroid Prime Remastered - 1.36m (+270k since March 2023)
    • Bayonetta 3 - 1.09m (+20k since March 2023)
    One notable milestone from this: Link's Awakening remake is now the best selling 2D Zelda of all time (passing Zelda 1 at 6.51m).
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    nice, added these to the OP as well.
     
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    Linkstrikesback said:
    So is BOTW, which is a large part of the discussion. BOTW shoved another half a million units in to the market despite ostensibly being replaced by a sequel that on paper is better than it.
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    Good for BOTW, both of the games deserve the strong numbers they're seeing.
     
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    As a Nintendo shareholder, I am pleased with TOTK, Pikmin 4 and Kirby. However Mario kart 8 deluxe continues to blow my socks clean off. Its practically viral. Could it be we have created a monster?

    Let it roll over the world baby
     
    Nintendo will not rest until MK8DX has surpassed Wii Sports (82.9 mio) in sales.

    No Switch 2 and no new Mario Kart until then, sorry.
     
    Kreese said:
    Why are you allotting a time frame when both of these games will be legging it out for the next decade? They're not going to stop selling if Switch 2 has BC and doubly so if there are new iterations released.
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    Because the rate TOTK needs to reach to outsell BOTW isn't realistic. If you take the results from this financial quarter for instance, TOTK only gained 500K on BOTW. If that rate held then it would take TOTK around 7 years to catch up. There will be fluctuations sure - I'd expect TOTK to have a good holiday season this year for instance - but eventually the rate at which TOTK outsells its predecessor will tighten until any gains it makes on BOTW will be negligible. That's before we consider the impact future Zelda's and consoles will have on their legs.

    I've said before and I'll say it again, the only chance TOTK has to become the best selling of the two is if we see an updated version released on the next Nintendo console with significant additional content to give the game's sales a shot in the arm.
     
    Gingerbread Man said:
    BotW already had that price worldwide except for North America.
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    In Europe, even if the price is €70, like with TotK, BotW and Smash, retailers almost never have it for that price. It's not like the US where there is a set price, retailers here can set their own prices. I got my copy day 1 for €55.
     
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    MissingNo. said:
    Nintendo will not rest until MK8DX has surpassed Wii Sports (82.9 mio) in sales.

    No Switch 2 and no new Mario Kart until then, sorry.
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    I’m starting to believe, this game is not slowing down and adding the WiiU version it’s at 65 mil copies sold with no sign of stopping, it’s only 17 mil away and I don’t expect a new mario kart at least until 2025 maybe even 2026. Can’t wait for the next switch to be bundled with mk8 deluxe
     
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