{"id":44320,"date":"2018-09-02T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/mario_plus_rabbids_on_nintendo_switch_has_sold_more_than_two_million_copies"},"modified":"2018-09-02T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T02:00:00","slug":"mario-rabbids-on-nintendo-switch-has-sold-more-than-two-million-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/02\/mario-rabbids-on-nintendo-switch-has-sold-more-than-two-million-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario + Rabbids On Nintendo Switch Has Sold More Than Two Million Copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/33064791b56e2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/33064791b56e2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside \/>\n<p class=\"description\">Third-party success<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\" \/><\/li>\n<li>by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><span class=\"icon icon-time\" \/> <span>2 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Mario And Rabbids\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/33064791b56e2\/mario-and-rabbids.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/33064791b56e2\/mario-and-rabbids.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario And Rabbids\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Earlier this year, Ubisoft&#8217;s third quarter financial briefing <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/ubisoft_is_the_leading_third-party_publisher_on_nintendo_switch\">revealed<\/a> <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a><\/strong> had been the highest selling third-party game on the Switch &#8211; placing the French-based publisher in the overall lead in terms of third-party sales on the platform. More <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_switch_only_accounted_for_7_percent_of_ubisofts_yearly_revenue\">recently<\/a>, Ubisoft&#8217;s full-year sales and earnings figures for the 2017-18 period showed a total of seven percent of the company&#8217;s sales were on Switch, with sales predominantly accredited to the Mario and Rabbid cross-over game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft Milan Creative Director Davide Soliani recently shed a bit more light on exact sales figures for the popular tactical turn-based RPG via <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavideSoliani\/status\/1035957060939276288\">Twitter<\/a>, confirming the title has now sold more than two million copies on the Nintendo Switch. It&#8217;s great to see a third-party company&#8217;s hard efforts pay off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you bought Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle on the Switch yet? Do you enjoy Ubisoft games in general? Would you like to see more of them on Nintendo&#8217;s latest system?\u00a0Tell us below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle-sells-over-two-million-copies\/\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle-sells-over-two-million-copies\/\">nintendoeverything.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/7bb13a7bf72407488cb8d0be8362cf7d @ 2018-09-02T03:54:48+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\" \/>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third-party success by Liam Doolan 2 hours ago Earlier this year, Ubisoft&#8217;s third quarter financial briefing revealed Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle had been the highest selling third-party game on the Switch &#8211; placing the French-based publisher in the overall lead in terms of third-party sales on the platform. More recently, Ubisoft&#8217;s full-year sales and [&hellip;]<\/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-44320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44320","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=44320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}