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Bofferbrauer2 said:
Marth said:

Major increases:

Octopath Traveler (NSW) - 1.90M (+400k)

I thought they announced in March that they went past 2M sales on Switch, 2.2M if you're including Steam sales.

That was total sales for the game so included Steam as the message was also on SE's twitter for the steam version, the 1.9m figure for NS and the sales on Steam would pass 2m in total back in March. 



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How the heck Yokai Watch 3 came from 2 million copies (which was already far worse than YW 2) to less than 300k copies with YW4 in less than 3 years?



Wow, I knew some Wii games kept shipping long after the console, but I thought they had stopped by now. At this rate MK Wii will outlive us all.



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The data is at 68.3Million stopping at september. So theoretically it should have passed the 69M through october and nearing the 70Million this week. VGC sales estimations should be updated.



Marth said:

Wii U

Mario Party 10: +20k since March 2020

Wind Waker HD: +20k since March 2020

New Super Luigi U: +10k since March 2020

Super Mario Maker: +10k since March 2020

Splatoon: No changes

Nintendo Land: No changes

Smash Bros WiiU: +10k since March 2020

New Super Mario Bros U: +10k since March 2020

Super Mario 3D World: +20k since March 2020

Mario Kart 8: No changes (suprisingly)

MK8 has an attach rate of over 60%, there are simply not enough consoles to sell more copies anymore.

heavenmercenary01 said:
The data is at 68.3Million stopping at september. So theoretically it should have passed the 69M through october and nearing the 70Million this week. VGC sales estimations should be updated.

Those 68.3M are shipped, while the sales numbers on VGC are sold through to customers. Since shipping takes time (op to 2 months depending of destination) and that number also includes consoles that are sitting in stores and warehouses, there's always a discrepancy of several weeks of sales between shipped and sold through.

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Marth said:

That is a very unexpected 3rd party million seller for the Switch. But to be fair it is on sale basically all the time. And a heavy discount at that.

Makes me wonder how many other million sellers there are on the Switch that we'll never find out about.



I'm happy Animal Crossing has finally got the love it deserves. My favourite Nintendo series is now near the top!



Marth said:

Monster Hunter Rise now at 7.5M via Capcom

https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e210924.html

Sales slowed down a lot.

Welp, I hope with the Sunbreak announcement sales get a boost.



Hey @Marth 

I appreciate all the work you're doing with this thread!

Just thought I should let you know that recently ResetEra updated their software sales data for the Switch. So all the other games that Nintendo hasn't shared updated figures for like Fire Emblem Three Houses, DKC Tropical Freeze, and Kirby Star Allies all got updated figures from Dec. 2019 to Jun. 2020.

Just thought it might be worth checking out.



Marth said:

Rune Factory 5 shipped 500k as of March 2022

That means that right after launch in the west it was at over 300k outside of Japan. Strong launch.