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Sales Data Nintendo France CY 2023: NSW HW 855K, 7.81M LTD, Zelda TotK No.1 with 968K at retail

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Nintendo France: Zelda was the best-selling game of 2023, record year for Mario and more...​

Nintendo France's President, Philippe Lavoué, took part to the tradition January interview with French media and shared several tibdits on Nintendo's excellent year
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Zelda et Super Mario, le duo gagnant de Nintendo France en 2023​

Super Mario Wonder, Kart, Party, Deluxe... Les jeux vidéo mettant en scène la mascotte se sont écoulés à 2,7 millions d’exemplaires l’an passé. Et avec Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo France revendique la meilleure vente de l’année.
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Nintendo France's President, Philippe Lavoué, took part to the tradition January interview with French media and shared several tibdits on Nintendo's excellent year:

  • Super Mario Bros. Movie was #1 in the French Box Office in 2023 with 7.3M admissions.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had a launch many thought was impossible to have nowadays at retail (500.000 units)
  • >1M units in France for Zelda with digital sales
  • Wonder had the best start for a Mario game in France.
  • The game managed to attract a wider audience than initially planned.
  • 2.7M units of Mario games have been sold last year in France
  • 855.000 Switch sold in 2023 (down from 987.000 last year)
  • 8M milestone will be crossed by the Switch in 2024
  • 55% of retail games sold last year were on Switch
  • Zelda #1 the best-selling game (not just for switch but for all platforms)
He also shared the top 10 Switch games at retail in 2023:
  1. Zelda : Tears of the Kindgom : 968.000 units NEW
  2. Super Mario Bros Wonder : 747.500 units NEW
  3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe : 383.500 units (total 3.452.900 units)
  4. Minecraft : 230.900 units (total 1.509.200 units)
  5. EA Sports FC 24 : 167.500 units NEW
  6. Nintendo Switch Sports : 154.600 units (total 587.300 units)
  7. Mario Party Superstars : 153.800 units (total 676.800 units)
  8. Hogwarts Legacy : 153.300 units NEW
  9. Animal Crossing New Horizons : 153.100 units (total 1.922.200 units)
  10. New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe : 132.500 units (total 1.084.300 units)
Best selling Switch games in 2022 at retail for comparison
  1. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet : 717.000 units NEW (300.500 Scarlet + 416.500 Violet)
  2. Pokemon Legends Arceus : 589.400 units NEW
  3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe : 451.200 units (total 3.069.400 units)
  4. Nintendo Switch Sports : 432.700 units NEW
  5. FIFA 23 Legacy Edition : 272.000 units NEW
  6. Mario Strikers Battle League : 270.800 units NEW
  7. Splatoon 3 : 257.300 units NEW
  8. Animal Crossing New Horizons : 256.600 units (total 1.769.100 units)
  9. Minecraft : 253.000 units (total 1.278.300 units)
  10. Mario Party Superstars : 246.300 units (total 523.000 units)
Other. Kirby and the Forgotten Land : 218.500 units NEW

Calendar Year Switch sales in France

2017: 911K (total 911K)
2018: 1130K (total 2041K)
2019: 1250K (total 3291k)
2020: 1445K (total 4736K)
2021: 1231K (total 5967K)
2022: 987K (total 6954K)
2023: 855K (total 7809K)
 
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Nintendo Switch compared to lifetime sales of other platforms in France, the list is missing a few platforms that i couldn't find Lifetime sales for.
(millions of units):

Nintendo DS - 10.60
Nintendo Switch - 7.81
Gameboy - 6.50
Nintendo Wii - 6.40
Playstation 4 - 6.07
Nintendo 3DS - 5.75
Playstation 2 - 5.70
Playstation 1 - 5.28
Playstation 3 - 5.23
Playstation Portable - 3.58
Xbox 360 - 3.37
GBA - 3.00
NES - 2.40
Xbox One - 1.80
Master System - 1.60
Gamecube - 1.50
Megadrive - 1.30
Nintendo Wii U - 0.83
Playstation Vita - 0.53
Sega Saturn - 0.30
 
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Surprised at no Pokémon in the top 10 despite it being released by the end of 2022. Usually Pokémon ruled the French charts but I guess times have changed.
 
9-Volt said:
Surprised at no Pokémon in the top 10 despite it being released by the end of 2022. Usually Pokémon ruled the French charts but I guess times have changed.
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They split them up and class them as 2 different games, for the 2022 chart i combined them and put them at No.1, they were originally placed at 5 and 6 for 2022. If they were combined then they would definitely be in the top 10 for 2023 but individually neither Scarlet or Violet sold as much as NSMBU Deluxe.
 
I saw it yesterday and was wondering how many times it would take to the interview to come here. These figures are pretty impressive even though Nintendo has always been pretty popular in there.

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[*]8M milestone will be crossed by the Switch in 2024
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I didn't read the interview but I read a summary and I remember seeing that it will actually be crossed by the end of january, and I'm not wrong after verifying.
 
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Coco98bisFR said:
I saw it yesterday and was wondering how many times it would take to the interview to come here. These figures are pretty impressive even though Nintendo has always been pretty popular in there.



I didn't read the interview but I read a summary and I remember seeing that it will actually be crossed by the end of january, and I'm not wrong after verifying.
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Total Lifetime it has a chance to reach 9 million, if Nintendo cut it's price significantly when the successor comes out then 9 million is happening.
 
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So for the big European Markets France is number 1 for Switch. The numbers for Germany and Italy are from a year ago, today Germany will probably be close to 7 million and Italy close to 3 million.

France: 7.81M
UK: 6.79M
Germany : 6.00M (as of Dec 2022)
Spain: 3.04M
Italy: 2.50M (as of Dec 2022)
 
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