Nintendo quarterly sales update (Switch 61.44m, Animal Crossing 22.4m)

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axumblade said:
I wish they'd reveal the data for all of their first party. IIRC, Luigi's Mansion was supposedly somewhere between 5-10 million. Just wanted to see where it fell.

I wish they would do this too, but I'm sure we'll get it eventually.  Luigi's Mansion is what I would call an A Tier Evergreen because I think it will ship more than 1 million units this fiscal year (and it isn't their launch year).  Pokemon, Mario Party, Splatoon and all the 2d/3d Mario platformers are all A Tier Evergreens, because they are all going to ship more than 1 million units this fiscal year (maybe even several million each).

On the other hand Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, Smash, Zelda and RFA are S Tier Evergreens.  They are all shipping over 1 million units in a non-holiday, non-launch quarter, and will probably continue to sell impressive numbers for the rest of the Switch's life.  Switch has so many evergreens at this point, that they kind of need to be divided into two tiers.  Just shipping over 1 million per fiscal year on a system like the 3DS would be enough to be called evergreen before, but a few Switch titles have gone far beyond that.

Something else I would really like to know is which third party games shipped over 1 million this quarter.  Minecraft is one obvious candidate.  The other candidates would be games that charted on the NPD top 10 Switch games this quarter.

Just Dance 2020*
Trials of Mana
The Outer Worlds

Just Dance 2020 charted in the NPD top 10 all 3 months (for Switch).  I'd say that it definitely sold 1m+.  The other candidates are Minecraft, Trials of Mana and The Outer Worlds.  It might be any of those 3, but Minecraft is the most likely since it's an S Tier Evergreen itself.