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xMetroid on 14 June 2021

The first game was really charming and had a lot of personality. Great music, gameplay and a nice level of difficulty surprisingly. I really wanted more of this crossover and we got more than i wished for. This looks a LOT more ambitious and big than i thought. Afterall, M+R is like one of their best selling games now. So it makes sense. I think their team went from 100 on the first to 300 on this one. It is going to be a pretty major release.



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Wyrdness on 14 June 2021

Jesus it's up there with MH Rise.



IcaroRibeiro on 14 June 2021

What a weird thing to announce. Are they ashamed of sales to state such a meaningless claim ?

Someone who own the game, can answer if you can have multiple saves in the same profile?

Talking about myself, I have played Zelda BOTW with 4 different profiles because each profile can have only one save



KLXVER on 14 June 2021

Whatever it sold, it was obviously good enough for a sequel. Im sure the DK expansion brought in some cash too. Great news.



Mr.GameCrazy on 14 June 2021

Good to hear that 7.5 million people have played the game!



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Mnementh on 14 June 2021
Kakadu18 said:
pikashoe said:

I'm pretty sure you're wrong 

Went to Wikipedia, found a link to a gaming bolt article, where it was stated that Ubisoft explicitly said "players", not sales. They were noted this on the talk page of the Wiki article "best selling Switch games".

It didn't actually sell 7.5 million copies. That's what Ubisoft said.

This actually raises more questions than it answers. How does Ubisoft get this number? Because, you know, Mario+Rabbids isn't an online game. it can be played on Switches that never go online at all.

And differs this number so much from actual sales? Because, how many people per household/switch do play it? It isn't your usual party game or something that is shared between the family. These tactics games have usually a smaller fanbase, which means often only one person per household. Overall a strange thing to announce.



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Kakadu18 on 14 June 2021
Mnementh said:
Kakadu18 said:

Went to Wikipedia, found a link to a gaming bolt article, where it was stated that Ubisoft explicitly said "players", not sales. They were noted this on the talk page of the Wiki article "best selling Switch games".

It didn't actually sell 7.5 million copies. That's what Ubisoft said.

This actually raises more questions than it answers. How does Ubisoft get this number? Because, you know, Mario+Rabbids isn't an online game. it can be played on Switches that never go online at all.

And differs this number so much from actual sales? Because, how many people per household/switch do play it? It isn't your usual party game or something that is shared between the family. These tactics games have usually a smaller fanbase, which means often only one person per household. Overall a strange thing to announce.

I guess it probably sold more than half of the player number.

This also includes people who played it with used copies.



Mnementh on 14 June 2021
Kakadu18 said:
Mnementh said:

This actually raises more questions than it answers. How does Ubisoft get this number? Because, you know, Mario+Rabbids isn't an online game. it can be played on Switches that never go online at all.

And differs this number so much from actual sales? Because, how many people per household/switch do play it? It isn't your usual party game or something that is shared between the family. These tactics games have usually a smaller fanbase, which means often only one person per household. Overall a strange thing to announce.

I guess it probably sold more than half of the player number.

This also includes people who played it with used copies.

Good point with the used copies, I didn't think about that, but that might happen.



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10 years greatest game event!

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Slownenberg on 14 June 2021

So probably more like 3+ mil



IcaroRibeiro on 14 June 2021
Mnementh said:
Kakadu18 said:

Went to Wikipedia, found a link to a gaming bolt article, where it was stated that Ubisoft explicitly said "players", not sales. They were noted this on the talk page of the Wiki article "best selling Switch games".

It didn't actually sell 7.5 million copies. That's what Ubisoft said.

This actually raises more questions than it answers. How does Ubisoft get this number? Because, you know, Mario+Rabbids isn't an online game. it can be played on Switches that never go online at all.

And differs this number so much from actual sales? Because, how many people per household/switch do play it? It isn't your usual party game or something that is shared between the family. These tactics games have usually a smaller fanbase, which means often only one person per household. Overall a strange thing to announce.

I'm sure the number of Switch consoles that never connect to internet aren't statistically relevant in this day and age. 

Even if don't play online, Nintendo surely have a background process to map your offline activity, it's an standard process in Big Data world. This data is then send to Nintendo servers once you connect to internet  

But you are right  that might be some number of profiles that never went online so Nintendo couldn't send reports of their gaming activity