Well goddamn.
I'll gladly admit I was one of the ones who underestimated it before launch.
Predicted 6,3 mil shipped for the quarterly report... At this point I think it'll be very close to doubling that.

It was already big, but made even bigger by social media.

I guess we'll be able to see how close they were pretty soon when Nintendo release its quarterly report.

Any game ever...? Including multiplats? Christ. Nintendo is something else this gen with their software sales.

SuperData is not reliable at all and anyone folowing sales data for videogames knows 5 million is highly unlikely to be the all time record.

COD sells like 6-8 million in the US alone.

Not to discredit you entirely but you're being very vague with your statements. You say 5 million is highly unlikely but then claim Call of Duty sells better, then you throw an approximate estimate of 6-8 million, which isn't clear at all, and then you don't cite in which period does Call of Duty make those numbers. 

Yeah and that 6-8 million includes digital. Sounds like you are brushing off the data because you don't like the results of a life sim beating massive multiplats.

Oh, it's Superdata....

Was excited for the success of a Nintendo franchise when I saw the source.Disregard my excitement.

Completely unreliable.They have been wrong numerous times in the past.The biggest example I can think of right now is the Switch first year sales, where they revised their numbers like three times and still got it very wrong at the end.

This basically.

No one has acess to Nintendo digital sales, not even NPD tries to do an estimate.Any company saying that they have accurate estimations are either wrong or simply delusional.