Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

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curl-6 said:

Zippy6 said:

NSMB Wii had a staggered launch. Nov 15 in USA, Nov 20 in EU and Dec 3 in Japan. So slightly less than a month in USA, a month in EU and 2 weeks more than a month advantage in Japan for Wonder.

The sales are good, it's just not anything like the boost other series have enjoyed on Switch. While a lot of Series have had their best selling title on the Switch (Zelda, AC, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Party) it doesn't look like Wonder will compete with NSMB Wii/DS LTD figures to me.

Saying a title with 10m+ sales in a little over 2 months underperformed doesn't sit right. But I understand saying it didn't quite reach as high as they had expected/hoped.

For those that remember Tbone and his "bold predictions". He predicted 20m shipped first quarter. I don't know if we had a prediction thread on this site but Installbase users for example greatly overestimated Mario Wonder.

On the flipside of those predictions though were all the equally off-base claims that it underperformed as soon as the charts rolled in.

It had been 11 years since the last time a new 2D Mario came out, people simply forgot that they sell through long legs rather than huge openings.

This is true but that's also why I didn't/don't expect that big lifetime sales for Wonder because it's simply launching too late to get the full value of that, not counting a potential Deluxe edition on the next system. Unlikely as it was it needed a huge opening if it was to reach those massive 30m+ numbers that many were predicting. It's pretty damn safe to say at this point that won't happen, but it should be able to break into the Top 10 which is still something.