Pokemon X/Y is now the highest selling 3DS game!

[Aielyn]

007BondAgent said:

Aielyn said:
You can't be quite certain that it's actually the highest-selling 3DS game. The best that can be said is that it's the 3DS game that has sold best at retail.

As surprising as it may sound, my suspicion is that New Leaf might actually be the best-selling title. Why? Because amongst all retail 3DS games released so far, it's the game best suited to digital download, and Nintendo did push digital download for that game particularly. I could honestly see it having 50% digital and 50% retail, while the others (not counting copies obtained through deals like the "buy one of these games and a 3DS XL, and download Super Mario 3D Land for free") I'd expect to be somewhere around 10-15% digital.

LOL Get real, animal crossing didn't sell 3 million digital

I suggest you review basic mathematics, since my description does work out to 6 million digital, as supernihilist notes.

That being said, I was working purely off intuition. Didn't think to look at actual numbers from previous quarters. Examination of the actual numbers gives us a better estimate of percentages, and I was overly optimistic.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2013/131031e.pdf

By the end of September, New Leaf had sold 6.35 million copies total. It was under 5 million retail according to VGChartz. This represents roughly 21% digital. Noting that its retail Christmas sales were a little slower than you'd expect, I think you'll find that the proportion of digital downloads will be somewhat higher since then. I'd guess somewhere around 25%. So I'd actually estimate New Leaf, assuming VGChartz hasn't mistracked (in either direction), to be somewhere around 8 million with digital included.

My main point, that digital sales mean that we don't know which one is actually ahead, remains valid.