And so Ultimate falls behind Smash 4. By 19 points in a single day. And next week Smash 3DS really takes off and even Wii U starts to increase. With such dismal momentum coming from Ultimate, Smash 4 is safely ahead of Ultimate. 3DS will pass it next week. If Ultimate ever does gain some last minute momentum, I could see it getting 700 or 800 points, but as Marth pointed out, Splatoon 2 is well ahead of it by this point so 900 is likely out of reach as well. I know that doesn't mean Smash will fail, just that it won't do as well as COMG as Smash 4, blah blah blah, this reason that reason why it will do better, COMG is declining, console bundles, lower install base, Super Mario Odyssey passed 3DLand, etc. But while I think Ultimate will do great worldwide and possibly become the best selling Smash ever, we are here to compare pre-order sales in a Japanese game store, and speculate on the larger Japanese game market based on that, and by that metric, the numbers are discouraging, and Ultimate probably won't be as huge in Japan as Smash 4 was, or at the very least I certainly wouldn't be surprised if that ends up being the case. Switch isn't doomed, but damn, everybody focused on the raw numbers in that chart and insisted that because Ultimate was ahead by over 100 that it would end that way when you could see it wasn't gaining momentum and you could see that Smash 4 would.
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