I have updated my big spreadsheet with the recent financial data through December 31, 2023!
MK8 DX crossed 60m while SSBU surpassed Wii Sports Resort and is now #6. BOTW surpassed RGB. Mario Odyssey continues its journey to 30m. I do have faith that it can at least surpass NSMB & NSMB Wii. SV surpassed SWSH. Whether or not it surpasses SWSH remains to be seen, but SWSH has cratered and is the worst performing in the Top 10.
Super Mario Party & TOTK both crossed 20m and hopefully TOTK will over take SMP proper. TOTK's legs are definitely weaker than I thought, although the game did open much higher than I thought as well and at least it crossed 20m by the end of the year. It's still the second best selling Zelda game by a wide margin.
NSMBU DX is now right below Mario 3. Luigi's Mansion 3 continues its journey, and 3D World has now surpassed 3D Land & Mario Galaxy. It is now the second best selling 3D Mario game. Switch Sports continues to put in good numbers while Superstars seems to have slowed down a bit, which makes sense because Nintendo has made the bizarre decision not to do DLC. I was really hoping for at least one board from 4-8 each.
Mario Wonder opens at nearly 12m. I was admittedly hoping for a lot more. Since Pokemon & Zelda did well over 15m in debut quarters for their recent games, I thought a new 2D Mario game right after the Mario movie would do similar numbers. Maybe the legs will be better than Zelda though. I had hopes that it would surpass NSMB & NSMB Wii, but I don't see that happening. It should comfortably surpass 20m in its life though.
Switch now has 21 10m sellers, of which 9 are 20m sellers. I think that both NSMB U DX & Mario Wonder could pass 20m, giving us potentially at least 11 20m sellers. Even though Switch has more 10m sellers than DS & Wii combined, the sales for DS & Wii combined are still slightly higher, but that lead will end in Switch's favor soon enough!
I can't see any of the announced 2024 titles making it onto this list. I do see Kirby & Mario Maker 2 (possibly) making it to the list in due time. And there's probably at least one more set of Pokemon games.
