PAOerfulone said:
A couple of takeaways:
Switch falls just short of 90 million in this quarter. At 4.45 million units in Q1 of this fiscal year, it is already trailing last fiscal year by 1.22 million after the Q1 of last year did 5.67 million units.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is now just a mere 300k away from tying Mario Kart Wii for the best selling Mario Kart single SKU in franchise history. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe also widened its gap over Animal Crossing New Horizons for best selling Nintendo Switch game. Sorry, Animal Crossing fans, but it looks like it's going to fall just short. Mario is still the king.
Smash Ultimate, Breath of the Wild, and Super Mario Party are all selling at around the same pace. With Super Mario Party passing 15 million, it should have a very good shot of reaching 20 million some time next year. That should be a very good sign for Mario Party Superstars.
Pokemon Sword/Shield continues its steady march towards Gold/Silver for the 2nd best selling Pokemon games of all time. At its current pace, it should pass Gold/Silver just in time for the release of Bright Diamond/Shining Pearl. (So much for the boycott.)
Ring Fit Adventure, I mean just wow. |
Mario Kart 8 Delux is done. There is no way Nintendo comes out with more content for it, and I suspect 9 is only a couple years away (I predict it is a Switch 2 launch title coming in 2023). 8 Delux sales will drop off considerably after 9 is announced, and even more so after it comes out. ACNH, however, is young in its life and just had additional content announced that is in development. That game won't be replaced probably until, minimum, 2025, and it will sell well again once that new content drops. If Nintendo commits to constantly pumping out new content for AC ever year (whether free or not) it will easily crush MK8D. If the new content is a joke and they don't ever add more meaningful content (which would be extremely stupid considering how popular the game is) then MK8D will win the battle lifetime.
