{"id":67995,"date":"2018-12-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/uk_charts_super_smash_bros_ultimate_becomes_the_fastest-selling_smash_game_of_all_time"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T10:00:00","slug":"uk-charts-super-smash-bros-ultimate-becomes-the-fastest-selling-smash-game-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/10\/uk-charts-super-smash-bros-ultimate-becomes-the-fastest-selling-smash-game-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Charts: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Becomes The Fastest-Selling Smash Game Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5de0d4058268\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5de0d4058268\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Smash\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5de0d4058268\/smash.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5de0d4058268\/smash.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Smash\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last Friday&#8217;s release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> has simultaneously broken records for Nintendo and made a huge impact in the UK charts. Not only did it sell enough copies to snag number one this week, but it has also become the fastest-selling Super Smash Bros. game of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Launch sales for Ultimate are 302% higher than those achieved by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/super_smash_bros_for_wii_u\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. for Wii U<\/strong><\/a>, and 233% higher than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/super_smash_bros_for_nintendo_3ds\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. for 3DS<\/strong><\/a>. As always with chart figures, it&#8217;s worth noting that only physical sales are counted for these statistics.<\/p>\n<p>If this level of success wasn&#8217;t enough, Ultimate has also become the fastest-selling game on Nintendo Switch, even managing to outsell the combined efforts of both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong> in the UK &#8211; the titles which managed to <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\">also claim that record<\/a> just three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at this week&#8217;s top ten all formats chart (physical sales only):<\/p>\n<p>1. (New) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<br \/>2. (2) <strong>Red Dead Redemption 2<\/strong><br \/>3. (1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_19\"><strong>FIFA 19<\/strong><\/a><br \/>4. (4) <strong>Battlefield V<\/strong><br \/>5. (9) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a><br \/>6. (New) <strong>Just Cause 4<\/strong><br \/>7. (3) <strong>Call of Duty: Black Ops 4<\/strong><br \/>8. (6) <strong>Spyro Reignited Trilogy<\/strong><br \/>9. (7) Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu!<br \/>10. (10) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a>: Deep Freeze Bundle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/uk_charts_pokemon_lets_go_still_clinging_onto_top_ten_now_outperforming_pokemon_x_and_y\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you buy any of these chart-topping games this week? Are you surprised at Smash Ultimate&#8217;s success? Let us know down below.<\/em><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday&#8217;s release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has simultaneously broken records for Nintendo and made a huge impact in the UK charts. Not only did it sell enough copies to snag number one this week, but it has also become the fastest-selling Super Smash Bros. game of all time. Launch sales for Ultimate are [&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-67995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995","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=67995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}