Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has Sold 3 Million Copies in the US

Nintendo has said in a press release that their recent game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has sold 3 million copies in the US in just under 2 weeks after the launch of the game, breaking multiple records in the process.

In the press release and according to the internal sales data, Super Smash Bro. Ultimate has not only become the fastest selling Nintendo Switch game of all time in the US, but has become the fastest selling game in the Super Smash Bros series.

The records are not only being broken in the US, as the game recently shared the same milestones in the UK and Japan markets.

To celebrate the achievement, Nintendo added some statistics that show the data of the US sales:

Nintendo hardware unit and dollar sales for 2018 are at their highest annual totals since 2011.
Nintendo eShop sales have grown 105 percent over 2017.
Evergreen Nintendo Switch games have set new milestones, with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe selling over 4 million and 5 million units, respectively. Super Mario Odyssey has sold over 4.7 million units.
In addition to the fast-selling Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game, other recently released games that continue to make a splash include Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!, which together total 2 million units, and Super Mario Party at 1.4 million.

The press release also states that the Nintendo Switch has become the fastest selling video game console of this hardware generation less than 2 years, according to NPD data, which is a group that tracks video game sales in the US.

The data also notes that Nintendo’s portable console has sole more than 8.7 million units, outpacing US sales of all other current generation systems at the same point in their life cycles.

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