Super Mario Odyssey has achieved yet another significant milestone, this time in the United Kingdom. Following its release in October last year, the Switch title has since shifted more than 500,000 physical copies locally. It's quite a feat for a game that's only been available for just over a year.
As pointed out in the tweet below by Game Industry publisher Christopher Dring, Odyssey is now the second Nintendo Switch game in this location to sell more than half a million copies physically. The only one ahead of it is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
This is rather impressive when you consider games released well before Odyssey like Splatoon 2 and system launch title The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild haven't shifted this amount in-store.
Odyssey is what Nintendo defines as one of its evergreen titles, which are titles that maintain sales consistency and are often sold alongside new systems. Earlier in April this year, it was revealed Odyssey had sold more than 10 million units worldwide. We also know it has been right at the top of the global Switch sales charts in more recent times. At the time, this figure covered more than half of the Switch userbase.
Are you impressed by Odyssey's latest sales milestone? Have you got this game in your own Switch collection? Tell us below.
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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Congrats! That's awesome to hear.
Impressive numbers for a Nintendo game in the UK.
It’s impressive for a single platform game in general there.
I'd say that this success is well deserved too, it's the best Mario game in a decade.
Did someone say Odyssey 2?
Hail to the king baby
@PringleMuffin that and BOTW 2 are smart money making ideas that should’ve been greenlit immediately but it depends if they still have that zany mindset that made getting a Galaxy sequel an anomaly, those two games set a great foundation for direct sequels that expand without reinventing the wheel or focusing on some wacky concept but you never know with people like Aonuma still around.
Good. This game deserves it.
Seriously UK charts bore me to death. It's mostly Fifa and nothing else
I stay up nights wondering about the sales numbers of this game in the UK. /s
Mario Odyssey sold 340,000 retail copies in 2017 in the UK, which means it sold 160,000 retail copies during the first 11 months of 2018. It should sell ~200,000 retail copies during the entirety of 2018.
Mario Kart 8 DX will probably reach 600,000 retail copies sold by the end of the year.
@arpaktiko in the US it is always Madden and NBA 2K
Great news keep it up Big N
The Nintendo system with the fastest growing game library also has the fastest selling Mario and Zelda games.
People really do like videogames <3
And merging their home console and handheld effort really does seem to have paid off, as many said for years that it might. Though only very few amoung us expected the form it would take.
Wahuuuu
I’m number one
Very impressive and it’s very much deserved it’s a great game still playing now
@arpaktiko yeah I’m sure the Greek charts are so different and edgy.....
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is already well past 600,000
Believe me its depressing seeing nothing but sports, racing and shooters at all my local gaming outlets. And then the switch and crash came along and changed that for (hopefully) a while. Popular supermarket tesco only ever has those mentioned above cause they sell but they recently stocked the switch and a few select games for it but its just so refreshing to see.
Where are those lovely UK charts for this week? Interested to see where Pokemon is week two. You know anything @westman98?
@Captain_EO
Pokemon Let's Go UK retail sales:
> Week 1: ~120,000
> Week 2: ~60,000
Pikachu is outselling Eevee by a lot.
The 19 month old Mario Kart 8 DX sold ~30,000 retail copies in the UK during Black Friday week. I find that more impressive TBH.
@ReaderRagfish The details on Mario since Odyssey are overall crazy. I mean, look at his overalls, his hair and mustache. He was never that detailed before.
@arpaktiko people in the UK also love themselves some Crash Bandicoot.
Bare in mind though that as the UK hates Nintendo so much, all these copies were bought just so we could burn them.
@westman98 where are you finding these numbers?
@westman98 thank you
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