Japan Sales Week 2 Media Create - January 07-13, 2019

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Medisti said:

Kai_Mao said:
Not a bad hold for Switch and Smash Bros had an expected drop. But damn what a run it had in December. Smash Bros. Ultimate is already in the Splatoon and Monster Hunter World tier for this generation in Japan. It really vindicates Nintendo for promoting Ultimate as their big title of the year despite some naysayers.

"It's a port of the Wii U game!"
"There're too many Smash Directs!"
"Smash Bros. isn't a system seller like Mario or Zelda or Pokemon"
"Why is Nintendo relying on Smash (and Pokemon Let's Go) to carry them through the holidays?"

Well there's your answer.

People actually said Smash isn't a system seller?

Oh yes, very much so.

Many in fact argued that the series peaked saleswise with Brawl and would sell less than it's 13M: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/dev2016/post.php?id=8955521