{"id":103093,"date":"2019-11-04T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/super_smash_bros_ultimate_is_now_the_best-selling_fighting_game_in_history"},"modified":"2019-11-04T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:45:00","slug":"super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-now-the-best-selling-fighting-game-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/04\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-now-the-best-selling-fighting-game-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Now The Best-Selling Fighting Game In History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the release of Nintendo’s latest financial results, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> was confirmed not only to be the best-selling entry in the fighting series<\/a>, having sold 15.71 million units as of 30th September 2019, but it also climbed to number 2 on the Switch all-time best seller list, with only Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> keeping it from the top spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If that feat wasn’t impressive enough, these sales numbers also<\/em> take the game past a genre milestone; Smash Bros. Ultimate is now the best-selling fighting game ever, taking over both the seminal Street Fighter II<\/a><\/strong> (in all its myriad guises) and the combined total of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U<\/a><\/strong> and 3DS<\/a><\/strong> which were standing in its way when it dethroned Super Smash Bros. Brawl<\/a><\/strong> as the best-selling individual<\/em> fighting game release back in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Totting up Street Fighter II figures<\/a> can cause headaches thanks to the huge number of versions that have appeared across arcade and home hardware since 1991. Indeed, if you counted<\/a> the copies on over 5 million Super NES \/ Famicom Classic Mini consoles around the world, Street Fighter II would still hold the crown with over 20 million unit sales. That would be weird, though.<\/p>\n

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Smash Bros. Ultimate’s performance is a remarkable feat. The game got off to a flying start and quickly became the fastest-selling entry in the series<\/a> and set peak viewership records at Evo 2019<\/a>, but to have become the best selling fighter ever<\/em> after less than a year on sale is an accomplishment befitting the biggest video game crossover in history.<\/p>\n

And there’s still more to come, with Terry Bogard waiting in the wings and Challenger #5 yet to be revealed, plus more DLC fighters to follow. Mr Sakurai, your team and every single Smash Brother and Sister, we salute you! *Master Hand and Crazy Hand<\/a> slow clap*<\/em><\/p>\n

“Yeah, whatever – Smash isn’t even a fighting game anyway.” Ooo, who said that? Let us know your thoughts and if you think the copies of a game included on a Mini Console should count towards its overall unit sales below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the release of Nintendo’s latest financial results, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was confirmed not only to be the best-selling entry in the fighting series, having sold 15.71 million units as of 30th September 2019, but it also climbed to number 2 on the Switch all-time best seller list, with only Mario Kart 8 Deluxe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}