Nintendo quarterly sales figures update, (To 31st Dec 2020) Switch 79.87m

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curl-6 said:

Some other observations:

- Smash Bros Ultimate has outsold Brawl and Melee combined

- Luigi's Mansion 3 and outsold Luigi's Mansion 1 and 2 combined

- Age of Calamity's sales outside Japan alone are already above the lifetime global sales of Hyrule Warriors 1 on Wii U, 3DS, and Switch combined

Here's a couple more:

- Super Mario Odyssey becomes just the 5th Mario platformer in history to pass 20 million units sold. The first one since New Super Mario Bros. Wii and the first 3D Mario Platformer to do it. It is now just a mere 380k away from tying Super Mario World on the SNES for 4th place on this all time list, which is ranked as follows:

1. Super Mario Bros (NES) - 40.24m

2. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) - 30.80m

3. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 30.32m

4. Super Mario World (SNES) - 20.61m

5. Super Mario Odyssey (NS) - 20.23m

- Pokemon Sword/Shield, at 20.35 million units sold, is now the 3rd pair of Pokemon games games to pass 20 million.

1. Pokemon Red/Blue/Green - 31.38m

2. Pokemon Gold/Silver - 23.10m

3. Pokemon Sword/Shield - 20.35m

It only needs an additional 2.75 million units to tie Gold/Silver. Pokemon doesn't exactly have a good track record when it comes to legs, but Sword/Shield has gotten a longer shelf life than usual thanks to the Expansion Pass and the fact that they actually skipped a year of releasing new games. So it's legs have been better than most. For comparison's sake, Pokemon X/Y sold through ~74.3% of its total lifetime sales in the FY it released. If Sword/Shield has that same trajectory, then it'll finish ~23.36 million units lifetime; Just enough to pass Gold/Silver. But we'll see.