According to Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold more than five million copies worldwide after just one week on sale.
The news comes from a short interview in Japanese newspaper Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun today (thanks, Dr. Serkan Toto). In this interview, Furukawa shared Smash Ultimate's impressive achievement alongside a statement confirming that the Switch has seen the fastest software sales so far in Nintendo home console history.
It was recently confirmed that the game has now shifted more than 2.6 million physical copies in Japan alone (with 1.2 million of those coming from just that launch week), and Nintendo also revealed that it had reached three million sales in the US in just eleven days. The five million global week-one total was to be expected thanks to all of this information, but it's still nice to have confirmation either way.
Elsewhere, Furukawa also confirms that Switch software sales started to pick up momentum in November of last year (which, again, is to be expected as November saw the release of Pokémon: Let's Go), and also noted that the Switch is currently offered in 60 countries.
Would you have ever predicted that Smash Ultimate would sell five million copies in one week? Do you think the game will continue to drive Switch sales over the next few years? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
[source twitter.com]
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Well you heard it here first folks! NINTENDOOMED! Doomed I say! Only 5 million sales in a week? There are BILLIONS of people! Clearly Nintendo is doing quite poorly. Especially this game! What atrocious sales!
#PSVITA4LIFE
But I thought Wii U ports don't sell!
😉
Great to see kicking ass again!
Probably just a rich Nintendork kid who decided he wanted it five million times to make Nintendo look good.
@Kainbrightside Further reports indicate Sakurai has not seen his friends or family in years and doctors warn that further use of stimulants to keep him awake for 3 days at a time will either kill him or drive him insane.
omg wig that's amazing. it'll eventually pass 15m+ in lifetime sales.
Nintendo's back baby!!
@Heavyarms55 Yeah, you know that joke is kinda dead now right?
Something must be wrong with me. I just traded my copy in. I'm one of the few who just didn't connect with the game I guess. This was my first time trying smash. I thought I would love it ☹️ now powerstone was my jam back in the old days 🤘
@Shambo That's some deep logic kid. Basically you assume then no one but this "one rich person" purchased the game? Clever.
@Varkster stop with that .....
Dear mother of goodness.......5 million in a week? That's a massive number.
The sales are deserved it’s a great game I’m enjoying smash way more than I thought I would
@nate83km
Woosh
5 Millions ?!
Wow !
Btw, where is Cobalt with his negativity about Switch sales ? 😁
@Nintendofan83 Sarcasm was clearly not detected.
5 million copies in one week? That is roughly 8 copies per second sold in that week. Just wow.
It's sold that much 'cos everyone wants a taste of Pirahna Plant.
Normie games tend to sell well, that's for sure.
Ok so wait 3 million sold in the US and 2.6 in Japan, only counting physical copies. That's not counting the rest of the world. How is 5 million really news?
Don't get me wrong, that's a lot sold. But with the numbers we're looking at in just physical copies, would it be far fetched to say the game is closer to 10 million sold than 5?
@Anti-Matter Hopefully permabanned and his IP address blocked.
Historically I have never been a Smash fan, put i am loving the Single Player content in this game
@ItsOKToBeOK The article is only talking about first week sales. It should be well on its way to 10 million sold by now...
Wow that's really amazing. Well deserved, it's a wonderfully put together game!
Well deserved. Well done
@JRJalapeno I feel you. The game also doesn't click with me so after 10 hours I placed it aside. First time playing Smash also.
And it's only to get better ^^ Bring on Luigi's mansion 3 and Animal Crossing!
Impressive stuff.
@Varkster you just called Smash ultimate a port?!
@RedMageLanakyn Ah yes. Normie games like....lets see my notes....
The mass media appeal of one...er...lets see... Spooderman?
@Tantani He said it was sarcasm.
@Varkster 20 million is massive and it is a pretty crazy assumption.... but almost no doubt it will hit 15 million and by that it will become the best selling fighting game ever made (which make a lot of sense since the current king is SSBB and the second place is SS4 for 3ds)
@Anti-Matter he disappeared a while ago. Maybe he will comeback with another name
@Balta666 Is this the same Sligeach_Eire person?
@Anti-Matter,
Where indeed?,although he usually fails to see facts or reason when he usually posts.
@Anti-Matter Maybe you shouldn't egg people on given your habit of also spewing toxic comments regarding anything not cute and cuddly.
Luckily this was no Capcom / Activision Blizzard title, or the series would have sold "BELOW EXPECTATIONS" and be now shelved, with planned DLC canclelled....
@nate83km http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sarcasm
What are the LTD sales of the other Smash Bros games??
That’s pretty boss, congrats to all the folks that worked on the game!
Also, some users either; don’t get sarcasm, don’t like jokes, feel like they determine ‘newsworthiness’, or like being jerks.
To quote Nigel Thornberry those sales results are "Smashing"
I would make a joke about the sales being "smashing", but I think they might run out of stocks soon 😉
@Lemmy_the_Koopa Though i would argue, if an Capcom | Activision would sell this much only on Switch, they also would call it a success and would be happy, even more if you consider it for the first week. Because as far as i remembered this "dissapointed" news are often after the game was released for awhile...
@Bizzyb super smash bro brawl hold 1st place in the series(and is the best selling fighting game ever with 13.27 million
Second place in both the series and the genre SSB4 for 3ds with 9.24 million
The 3rd place in the series is SSB Melee with 8.12 million the the 5th spot in the genre
@nate83km I enjoy beating dead horses.
@Rob3008 some expeculate so. I am not sure.
@RedMageLanakyn careful there or you might cut yourself on that edge..
@RedMageLanakyn
Hello.
Long time we haven't talk each other. 🤓
I was going to make a doomed joke but honestly...just great job Nintendo!
Good for Nintendo 👍🏾
Smash definitely deserves the success.
This game is still Smashing sales targets left and right I see.
5 million eh? I wonder what the attach rate to Switch was...?
@Tantani Any chance it will outsell Brawl...?
@Bizzyb well.... no other fighting game has ever done it, but this game is something else.... this thing sold more than 5 million in the first week, sold 3 million physical copies in the US alone in 11 days so it must have sold much much more in those 11 days in the US
And looking on the switch records so far you will see that Zelda BOTW is the best selling in the franchise and Mario Odyssey is the best seller in the 3D Mario games
This game was super hyped by fans and was brilliantly marketed
I believe it can and will do it
@Tantani Are we considering Smash a fighting game at it's core? I mean if you go by recent NL standards, almost anything could be a fighting game
I've always thought of Smash as more of a party game, which is why it sells so well. People buy it to play with their friends and family more than anything else. Lord knows not for the online.....
@RedMageLanakyn it’s a party game, but it is a 2d fighting game
Nintendo's 2020 lineup got leaked on Reddit.
Super Smash Kart
Super Smash Golf
Super Smash Tennis
Legend of Zelda: Ballad of Smash Bros.
Metroid Prime Sylux 4 Smash.
Waluigi's Road to Smash (feat. Bubsy and Glover)
The game is masterpiece. I expect it selling at least 20 million
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