By updating Switch sales information, Nintendo also revealed the latest data on her top hits for the console today. The number one bestseller continues to be Mario kart 8 deluxe – on December 31, 2023 bought it 33.41 million times… Growth for the last quarter – 4.42 million copies… With version for Wii U the total circulation of the eighth “Mario Karta” approached the mark in 42 million…
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe breathes in the back Animal Crossing: New Horizons – this game has found 31.18 million buyers in less than nine months…
This is what the other eight places in the top ten most popular games from Nintendo itself for Switch look like (in brackets – the increase for the last quarter):
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 22,850,000 (+1,750,000)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 21,450,000 (+1,710,000)
- Pokemon Sword & Shield – 20,350,000 (+1,330,000)
- Super Mario Odyssey – 20,230,000 (+1,240,000)
- Super Mario Party – 13,820,000 (+1,720,000)
- Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! & Let’s Go, Eevee! – 13,000,000 (+510,000)
- Splatoon 2 – 11,900,000 (+630,000)
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 9,820,000 (+1,500,000)
Separately, Nintendo has updated information on a number of other projects.
- Innovative Ring Fit Adventure Reaches Sales Mark 8,680,000 copies… Growth for the last quarter – 2,840,000.
- The collection of platformers Super Mario 3D All-Stars, released in September 2023, as of the end of December sold in quantity 8,320,000 copies… Circulation for the last quarter – 3,110,000.
- The experimental Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, which is available in $ 100 packs, has reached 1,080,000 copies…
- In October 2023, Nintendo released a remaster of Pikmin 3 on Switch. By the end of December, it had a circulation 1,940,000 copies… For comparison, sales of the original on Wii U over the entire lifecycle of the platform are 1,270,000 copies.
- The adventure game Luigi’s Mansion 3, which debuted in the fall of 2019, continues to reach new audiences. It was bought 1,300,000 times during the holiday quarter, and its total sales are now 9,130,000 copies… Luigi’s Mansion 2 on Nintendo 3DS scored 6.33 million copies ever.
- Of the other games released by Nintendo last year, Clubhouse Games performed very well: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2.62 million copies (+810k per quarter), Paper Mario: The Origami King sales reached 3.05 million copies, but recently the dynamics has slowed down (+230 thousand per quarter), the Xenoblade Chronicles remaster found 1.48 million buyers by the end of the year (+80 thousand per quarter), and the action game Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity interested 2.84 million users outside Japan (with Japanese sales 3.5 million).
Many Nintendo games showed record sales on the Nintendo Switch, and in terms of total software sales from all manufacturers, the platform already bypasses Nintendo 3DS and Wii U combined…
- In the nine months of the current fiscal year, from April 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023, Switch has sold 176.1 million copies of games… By March 31, Nintendo plans to bring this figure to 205 million…
- In three quarters, 29 Nintendo Switch games sold over 1 million copies, including 9 games from third-party developers (excluding digital-only indie software).
Fiscal year should end on a high note:
Read also: Nintendo Switch Continues To Break Records With Nearly 80 Million Consoles Sold…
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