Smash Bros. Ultimate Reaches 13.81 Million Sales, Outsells Wii U's Lifetime Console Sales

Pffft come back to me when you hit 20 million. 13 mill is Bush league son, bush league.

Bloody hell that's impressive! Even moreso there aren't many copies lining pre-owned shelves meaning owner retention is likely higher than other big selling games.

Solid software sales for FY2019. Kind of disappointed of the hardware sales numbers though. i expected it to be closer to 18mio instead of 16.95mio. 2.47 mio in last quarter of which almost 1mio alone in Japan means sales have really slowed down in Europe (seeing that switch was best selling console in US for last quarter according to NPD data i expect it was not too bad in US)..

Blimey!

It would be great to see some stats from Nintendo. How many smashes in total, which characters are played the most, the win/loss ratios and so forth.

I'm super impressed that lets go has sold 11m ... That's astounding for a B grade Pokemon title.

Another weird headline...

Well deserved!

@Drussa
Q1 2019 Switch shipments by territory:
Japan: 0.49 million
America: 1.08 million
Other (Europe + Australia + rest of the world): 0.90 million

Seems like Nintendo is trying to clear out inventory in Japan, seeing as Q1 2019 shipments weren't even half of Q1 2019 sell-through in Japan.

Q1 2019 shipments were also below Q1 2019 sell-through in the Americas and the rest of the world, though not to the same degree as in Japan.

The software sales are seriously impressive. Yoshi is already a million seller.

@ryancraddock Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is at 16.69 million sales, not 7.47.

The list is showing the Switch is a winner for multiplayer/party games that support couch co-op as well as online play. And of course Pokemon.

Personally I expected Zelda BotW and Mario Odyssey to be higher but maybe that is just because they are my favourite games on the console.

It might show the audience. For example, our Switch is enjoyed by my whole family whereas the PS4 is only used by me and my son. The wife and daughter aren’t interested unless it has cute characters or we can all scream at each other like maniacs whilst playing together on the sofa... or both.

What a comparison

Super Smash Bros (N64): 5.55 million
Super Smash Bros Melee: 7.41 million
Super Smash Bros Brawl: 13.30 million
Super Smash Bros 3DS: 9.49 million
Super Smash Bros Wii U: 5.36 million
Super Smash Bros Ultimate: 13.81 million

Ultimate sold more in 4 months than what Brawl sold in 11 years.

In less than 2 years, Mario Kart 8 DX is only ~1.6 million copies away from outselling Mario Kart 7.

Insane. It looks to be Nintendo's first 20 million seller since New Super Mario Bros Wii from back in 2009/2010.

@westman98 That would explain a lot indeed (did not yet have a chance to look at the IR reports yet). would also provide some shred of probability that the rumor of a new switch version is valid. Clearing out inventories to make some space for new model.

One interesting financial stat:

Digital sales doubled last year and now make about 10% of total sales (around $1bn).

Mobile sales are around half of the total digital sales.

I don't know if that's saying digital sales are still "weak" or mobile sales are booming...

@Kienda these figures are only for the financial year. Odyssey is on 14.44m lifetime sales and BOTW on 12.77m (which is only the Switch version I think)

@ryancraddock Ah right, sorry about that I missed the dates above the list.

I know this is a Smash Ultimate thread, but seeing Super Mario Party numbers, how has this game not received any updates similarly to Tennis Aces!?!
6.4Mil is a good number.
Need some extra boards dude!

well deserved. the game has so much content! you really get your moneys worth

Ordered Smash for my son last business there’s another sale.

23 million sellers is a good number to shut up everyone that says third parties don't sell well on switch MUAHAHA

It's got a long way to go before it catches up to the number of Big Macs sold.

@Drussa
So according to Famitsu, the Switch sold-through 7.86 million units by the end of March 2019 in Japan.
According to Nintendo, the Switch shipped 8.23 million units by the end of March 2019 in Japan.

That means Nintendo has sold-through a whopping 95.5% of all Switch shipments in Japan by the end of the last quarter.

Yep...it's obvious that Nintendo is preparing to make space for a new Switch revision in the not-too-distant future. You don't suddenly short out your supply that drastically during a single quarter for no good reason.

@westman98 we will know more soon. They have no plans to announce anything during E3, but that does not mean they can dedicate a direct to such an announcement

And people still believe we are only getting 5 DLC packs, no more after that.

It's a matter of time for a second Fighters Pass, with some characters who were Spirits getting promoted, and maybe even Assist Trophies.

This is an odd article NL. We’re talking about a $60 game vs a $300 system. Might as well say Mario Kart and Odyssey did the same thing.

It already passed Brawl, that's mighty impressive.

@westman98 Yeah. I can’t imagine Nintendo would not have a cheaper unit out for Pokémon and Animal Crossing. Those are two huge sellers which have typically been played only on cheaper handheld systems.

It passed brawl in 4 months, and that is impressive enough

@RadioHedgeFund
Owner retention for the likes of Smash Bros. and Mario Kart has always been ubsurdly high.

Yeesh. I expected Smash Ultimate to do very well, but even these numbers are pleasantly surprising.