Splatoon 3 sells 3.45 million at launch in Japan (shipped + digital)

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Kakadu18 said:

kopstudent89 said:

What in the name of Wario

surely this is an all time record for Japan?

Yes it is.

The previously biggest launch that we have concrete numbers on is Pokémon Black/White, which sold 2.63mil according to Famitsu. Animal Crossing: New Horizons probably sold more than that too though with digital, since it sold 1.88mil physical at launch and a 30% digital share (it was definitely higher than that) would have put it at 2.68mil.

Actually I think ~30 % seems about right. We know from their quarterly report that shipped + digital in Japan were at 3.84 mil after 11 days, and it sold 700k in physical sales alone in the second week, so 2.68 mil for the first week sounds reasonable enough.

Seems Splatoon 3 got it beat by well over half a million, which is insane. I wonder if any future Switch games can possibly beat it? I doubt Scarlet/Violet can do it, though they will obviously have a huge launch as well.