{"id":64427,"date":"2018-11-23T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/super_smash_bros_ultimate_is_the_best_pre-selling_game_of_the_series_to_date_and_on_switch"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:00:00","slug":"super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-the-best-pre-selling-game-of-the-series-to-date-and-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/23\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-is-the-best-pre-selling-game-of-the-series-to-date-and-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is The Best Pre-Selling Game Of The Series To Date, And On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/63a158c06b324\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/63a158c06b324\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Smash\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/63a158c06b324\/smash.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/63a158c06b324\/smash.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Smash\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In just a couple of weeks&#8217; time, on 7th December, a little game called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> is coming out. If you&#8217;ve seen the <em>absolutely monstrous<\/em> amount of news and coverage surrounding the game so far, you probably won&#8217;t be all that surprised to hear that it&#8217;s already starting to break records left, right and centre.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has shared a short new trailer for the game &#8211; <em>featuring a nice little quote from ourselves, we hasten to add<\/em> &#8211; sharing a couple of incredibly impressive facts in the process. As you can see for yourself, Ultimate has now become the best pre-selling game in the Super Smash Bros. series, and the best pre-selling game so far on Switch.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Super <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SmashBrosUltimate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SmashBrosUltimate<\/a> is punching its way into the record books! Thank you to all the amazing fans for your support in making this a fight for the ages! Be sure to have your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> ready to experience the action when the game launches on 12\/7.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z26JLSHE3W\">https:\/\/t.co\/z26JLSHE3W<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AqkeDlKYSb\">pic.twitter.com\/AqkeDlKYSb<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo Versus (@NintendoVS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoVS\/status\/1065983308721471489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A week ago today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/strong><\/a> started to appear in the wild, similarly smashing the record to become the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/pokemon_lets_go_sells_3_million_copies_in_first_week_becomes_fastest-selling_game_on_switch\">fastest-selling Switch game<\/a> to date. Usually, a betting gaming fan would place their money on Pok\u00e9mon outselling Smash by a comfortable distance (as this has historically been the case thanks to the Pok\u00e9mon brand&#8217;s immense pulling power), but things might actually be pretty tight this time around.<\/p>\n<p>If Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go managed to sell over three million copies in less than a week, can Smash beat that? It&#8217;s a tough challenge to take on, but if any game&#8217;s going to achieve it, Ultimate&#8217;s the one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Go on then, cast your votes in the comments below. Can Smash outsell Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s impressive week one figures?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just a couple of weeks&#8217; time, on 7th December, a little game called Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is coming out. If you&#8217;ve seen the absolutely monstrous amount of news and coverage surrounding the game so far, you probably won&#8217;t be all that surprised to hear that it&#8217;s already starting to break records left, right [&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-64427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64427","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=64427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}