Some heated battles in here.

As far as I see the 8.2m is the number Nintendo up until then knew 100% the had hit, and there’s a still unknown number it sold om top. I’d just wait for NPD or better yet Nintendo’s financial briefing before throwing any hard statements around, but that’s me. Can’t really make much of these bits of information.

What happened to 6-8 million? Now it's 10 million, what made you change your mind? 

I recall another post by you where you stated both Pokemon and Smash would be disappointments, still hold to that theory? 

it depends what the expectations were for those people, we will know soon enough. 

Talking about December sales in US

Not only is Super Smash Bros Ultimate tracking well ahead of Pokemon Let's Go! in the US, it's also having a stronger impact on selling hardware.

Switch sales tracking very strong in early December pic.twitter.com/da4eS1zneT

— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) December 9, 2018

Nothing surprising, but we still don't know how well Pokemon sold in US in November. But yes, Switch was always going to sell around 2M in December in USA so of course Smash Bros was going to be the responsible of that. If Switch goes from 1'0-1'1M sold in November to 2'0M in December it should be around a 100% growth month over month.

And if Sony doesn't surprise us with a good bundle for PS4 in December (and it seems is not going to do it), Switch will end as the best selling console of the year in USA.

Thanks for sharing! Gonna be a good December! Looking forward to see where switch ends up! 

Bumping for the lolz. Switch sold 1.35mil+ all this arguing for nothing lol

Some users in this thread were taking Nintendo PR bullshit numbers too seriously after MK8D PR numbers. 

It was like many pointed out a misunderstanding. Nitendo didnt clarify enough info but in the end the most logical opinion was that Nintendo only was talking about BF week

I guess it sold 400,000-500,000 in five days!