{"id":54334,"date":"2018-10-12T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/smash_bros_ultimate_is_second_most_anticipated_holiday_release_according_to_us_survey"},"modified":"2018-10-12T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T05:13:00","slug":"smash-bros-ultimate-is-second-most-anticipated-holiday-release-according-to-us-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/smash-bros-ultimate-is-second-most-anticipated-holiday-release-according-to-us-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Second Most Anticipated Holiday Release, According To US Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff9ae27addf2d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff9ae27addf2d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Super Smash Bros Ultimate Image\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff9ae27addf2d\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-image.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff9ae27addf2d\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-image.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Super Smash Bros Ultimate Image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Data measurement specialist Nielsen has released rankings for 2018&#8217;s most anticipated holiday games. The US survey was conducted with the assistance of nearly 6,000 people. In terms of games that have not yet launched, Nintendo&#8217;s <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> placed second, right behind Activision&#8217;s <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/call_of_duty_black_ops_4\">Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII<\/a><\/strong> which is due out early next month.<\/p>\n<p>When taking into consideration games that are already out, but are still likely to gain additional sales during this period, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/marvels_spider-man\">Marvel&#8217;s Spider-Man<\/a><\/strong> on PlayStation 4 was technically at the top. The recently released <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\">Super Mario Party<\/a><\/strong> on Switch also tied with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.<\/p>\n<p>As for Nintendo&#8217;s other upcoming releases, it turns out Pikachu is still the favourite &#8211; with <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu!<\/a><\/strong> achieving a rating of 88 and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong> at 86. Other games like <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_19\">FIFA 19<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nba_2k19\">NBA 2K19<\/a><\/strong> scored 87 and 84, while Ubisoft&#8217;s <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/assassins_creed_odyssey\">Assasin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> was at 91.<\/p>\n<p>The survey featured 82 different games released between 1st September and 31st December of this year. It covered metrics like awareness, purchase interest and consumer ratings. Below is the official graphic, courtesy of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2018-10-10-call-of-duty-black-ops-iiii-a-more-anticipated-game-barely-this-holiday-than-red-dead-redemption-2\">gamesindustry.biz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nielsen Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/069cc1fa4bce9\/nielsen-survey.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/069cc1fa4bce9\/nielsen-survey.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nielsen Survey\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Is Smash Bros. Ultimate your most anticipated release of the holiday season or perhaps even this year? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data measurement specialist Nielsen has released rankings for 2018&#8217;s most anticipated holiday games. The US survey was conducted with the assistance of nearly 6,000 people. In terms of games that have not yet launched, Nintendo&#8217;s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate placed second, right behind Activision&#8217;s Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII which is due out early [&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-54334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54334","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=54334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}