{"id":69747,"date":"2018-12-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/super_smash_bros_ultimate_shifts_3_million_copies_in_the_us_in_just_11_days"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:00:00","slug":"super-smash-bros-ultimate-shifts-3-million-copies-in-the-us-in-just-11-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/18\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-shifts-3-million-copies-in-the-us-in-just-11-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Shifts 3 Million Copies In The US In Just 11 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5001e784f2e68\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5001e784f2e68\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Smash\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5001e784f2e68\/smash.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/5001e784f2e68\/smash.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Smash\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\"><strong>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> has sold three million copies in the US after just eleven days on sale, breaking multiple records in the process.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nintendo&#8217;s internal sales data, the game has become both the fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game of all time in the region, and also the fastest-selling game in the Super Smash Bros. series. We recently reported on the fact that the very same milestone was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/uk_charts_super_smash_bros_ultimate_becomes_the_fastest-selling_smash_game_of_all_time\">also hit in the UK market<\/a>, with early sales in Japan seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/japanese_charts_smash_bros_ultimate_has_already_outsold_pokemon_and_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">similarly impressive levels of success<\/a>, too. These statistics are expected to cement the fact that Nintendo is currently the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/nintendo_switch_becomes_the_fastest-selling_console_of_this_generation_in_the_us\">top-selling US software publisher of 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the news, Nintendo has also shared some additional statistics. Bear in mind that the following data comes from Nintendo of America and is <strong>specific to the US only<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Nintendo hardware unit and dollar sales for 2018 are at their highest annual totals since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nintendo eShop sales have grown 105 percent over 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Evergreen Nintendo Switch games have set new milestones, with <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> selling over 4 million and 5 million units, respectively. <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a> has sold over 4.7 million units.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In addition to the fast-selling Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game, other recently released games that continue to make a splash include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu! and Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Eevee!<\/strong><\/a>, which together total 2 million units, and <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Super Mario Party<\/strong><\/a> at 1.4 million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Are you one of the many who have already picked up a copy of the game? Are you surprised by any of the statistics shared above? Tell us below in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has sold three million copies in the US after just eleven days on sale, breaking multiple records in the process. According to Nintendo&#8217;s internal sales data, the game has become both the fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game of all time in the region, and also the fastest-selling game in the Super Smash [&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-69747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69747","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=69747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}