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Switch at 4.7 million | ARMS: 1.18 Million, Zelda: 3.92M, Mario Kart 3.54M
- Thread starter JoeM86
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These numbers are shipment + digital, so they also include a) stock still sitting on shelves and b) untracked eShop sales.
Godzilla's Left Toe
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Nintendo handhelds have been pretty much healthy third party destination's.
PS4 did 6 million in 4 months. XBO was probably around 3 million.
If only there were notable third party releases....
Yoshimitsu126
Member
Zelda and Mario Kart with huge attach rate and the new IP ARMS already at 1 million plus during the summer season? Oh man I'm afraid and excited to see Odyssey's LTD sale.
Splatoon 2 likely already sold a million units in its launch week.
Um, considering the recent thread about how it sold in Japan alone, seems like an odd statement to make.
Lol... Pretty sure splatoon 2 will out sell arms in Japan alone
OriginalPoe
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Waiting on US numbers.
Eolz
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There's no big third party game on Switch yet tbh. Either old ports, indies, Bomberman or similar mid tier games.
Edit: nothing similar to what was on 3DS yet too.
I was talking about Street Fighter as a franchise, not just Street Fighter V, which has issues which is why it failed to chart. If you want a recent example, used Tekken.
We're talking about Bomberman R as the biggest 3rd party game so far.
Not a great sign for it no--consider that with these 4 games alone, 72.5% of all software sales are tied up by Nintendo-exclusive games. Kinda goes without saying but this is not the case for any other platform. Uncharted or Halo will always sell a cool few million or more, but the best selling games (let alone a majority of all software sold) aren't exclusives.
Point being here, and what may prove problematic later on, is what happens if there are Nintendo droughts or if games like Rabbids or FE Warriors don't review/do well. It's one thing when you have ace after ace like with BotW and Splatoon, and eventually Mario Odyssey, but we'll see if they can maintain momentum into December.
Can I ask you why? All sales indication tell us it'LL be massive, and in Japan alone it sold 671k in 3 days, which is over half of ARMS' sales for two weeks already.
The original game sold massively over there as well. We don't have Splatoon 2 numbers for US, and won't until halfway througg August at the earliest, but amazon US ranking shows it as the 18th best selling gaming product of the year, a massive achievement for any game. It's really not going to bomb there.
MetalliCabombination
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Can we take a moment to talk about those 1-2 switch sales?
You maniacs what have you done!
You maniacs what have you done!
You cant buy or sell what doesn't exist. Unless I'm missing some big games that Capcom, SE, EA, Activision or Ubi have launched on Switch.
In addition Wii U had a holiday period which for Switch is yet to come.
jts
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It's not a sequel, and it's definitely not lazy.
They took the best Mario Kart to date, polished the hell out of it, fixed the shortcomings, added content and made it better. Hell, I wish that would happen to so many games I love.
Now, unfortunately it's also not cheap. That's my main complain about it. Clearly it panned out for them but as a MK8 owner on Wii U, the single player experience for MK8D was definitely not as enjoyable as any other Mario Kart, because I knew all of the tracks already. For that, I feel a bit burned for paying full price (in all fairness, it was a bit cheaper by getting it from Amazon.jp eShop code).
Mediking
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Mario Rabbids is selling a million... easily. It looks like a very high quality game.
Garrett Hawke
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MK8's eternal power and impact.
Arms'... um. Not-splatoon impact, I guess. 🤡
Anyway... Spla2oon coming for wigs
Arms'... um. Not-splatoon impact, I guess. 🤡
Anyway... Spla2oon coming for wigs
Nintendo sticks to their forecast, is another notesworthy news: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-sticks-to-its-switch-sales-forecast-1501054000
Splatoon 2 JP will outsell ARMS WW by mid-August, but you do you.
The PS4 is a beast. But Switch might have been on the same pace without supply constraints, which is crazy.
In recent years? The only thing I can think of 3DS getting in the last couple years that mattered was Monster Hunter.
As it stands, no third party games out on the Switch right now were going to draw in a massive crowd. Even Minecraft's audience is limited on the system.
Oh ok, the numbers are shipped?
In that case people might want to hold off calling ARMS a big success just yet because the figures we actually know don't support it being close to that 1.18 million number just yet (and remember that the US 250k number DOES include digital).
I could see several million.
my only hangup is if being a SRPG would negatively affect it.
....but it's a co-op SRPG. Hm, we'll see how it's advertised.
Mbolibombo
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I'd say Minecraft is the biggest third party game released on the Switch by far.
As for sales.. didnt Bomberman surpass half a million in sales?
FreedomFighter
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It's a paradox!
superdeluxe
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Those attach rates
Didn't PS4 launch during November so it also had Holiday sells, while the Switch launch n March which is a low period for console sells?
Eolz
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Which is a good thing imo.
Will allow them to have a better production and see how it goes from there. It'll still be great if it's only that forecast, and they'll have good news if it's better.
Judging from the proportion of sold software made up of exclusives, this doesn't seem to be the case for the larger market. The best-selling third party game on this system is Bomberman, a game that released with god awful performance and so-so reviews.
MetalliCabombination
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Could the switch do it if it launched with knack instead of zelda lol?
Important to remember that PS4 didn't launch at the same time in all territories. In Japan it launched in February 2014, for example.
I'm just kidding about Bomberman R. Just saying there's really not much noteworthy 3rd party games released so far other than the few mentioned.
We still have to wait for the other games to get released before we can see a much clearer picture about 3rd party sales on the Switch.
Godzilla's Left Toe
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Until fall we really can't say if Switch can't sell 3rd party games.
MetalliCabombination
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What are we getting fall?
But Japan was also the weakest area for the PS4. I think it surpassed the Wii U just last year.
CaviarMeths
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Looking at the 3DS and Wii U software lists now, it looks like Super Mario 3D Land and World could overtake NSMB2 and NSMBU. That would be the first time that 3D Mario has ever outsold 2D Mario.
Pokemon SuMo still steaming along too. Will likely be the best selling Pokemon game since GS nearly 2 decades ago.
Switch 1st party software is doing pretty good without a holiday season yet. ARMS at 1.1m after two weeks, it should clear 2-3m by the end of the fiscal year pretty easily. Breath of the Wild could be the best selling Zelda game ever after the holidays.
Mario Kart 8 has now moved 11.89m units. You may recognize this number as about 10x what Polygon predicted in their infamous article.
Pokemon SuMo still steaming along too. Will likely be the best selling Pokemon game since GS nearly 2 decades ago.
Switch 1st party software is doing pretty good without a holiday season yet. ARMS at 1.1m after two weeks, it should clear 2-3m by the end of the fiscal year pretty easily. Breath of the Wild could be the best selling Zelda game ever after the holidays.
Mario Kart 8 has now moved 11.89m units. You may recognize this number as about 10x what Polygon predicted in their infamous article.
Mediking
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Chittagong
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Sticking to 10 million by next March is absurd considering they are already halfway through the figure in March-July, a new Super Mario is coming, Monter Hunter is coming, Christmas is coming, Splatoon is barely off the starting line...
I guess that Mario rabbit thing? Is FIFA or WWE 2k due this fall?
MrCookiepants
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Those are Switch only Zelda sales btw.
The Wii U version should put it over 5 million. Already outsold Wind Waker, Majora's Mask and Skyward Sword.
The Wii U version should put it over 5 million. Already outsold Wind Waker, Majora's Mask and Skyward Sword.
NintendosBooger
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Yeah, good call, it could have only sold 100 copies in the US, best to be wait and see