Justice prevails: Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition for Switch sets record for fastest selling

An updated and expanded version of the RPG Xenoblade Chronicles for family consoles Switch set a record for the fastest selling in a series. It sold 1.32 million copies in its first month, Nintendo said.

Circulation Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for the same period of time since the debut was 1.06 million copies.

The original Xenoblade Chronicles debuted late in its lifecycle Wii and was released in the western regions with a great delay – in Europe about a year after the Japanese premiere, and in the USA almost two years later. In the US market, the game became an exclusive to GameStop, which limited its commercial potential and quickly made physical copies a rarity. There was no digital distribution of major Wii games. As a result, this version has sold less than 1 million copies – Nintendo has never announced the exact numbers.

A few years later, Xenoblade Chronicles received a portable version, but only on consoles of the line New Nintendo 3DS

Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (our review) – the first version of the game with sales of over 1 million copies and the second release in the series after Xenoblade Chronicles 2, reaching such a bar

In June 2023, Tetsuya Takahashi, creative director of Monolith Soft studio, announced work on “further strengthening the Xenoblade Chronicles brand.”… From these words it follows that now the studio Monolith Soft can create Xenoblade Chronicles 3… She also receives many requests for porting Xenoblade Chronicles X Wii U to Nintendo Switch.

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