{"id":79796,"date":"2019-02-02T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/super_smash_bros_ultimate_surpasses_five_million_sales_in_the_us"},"modified":"2019-02-02T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T13:30:00","slug":"super-smash-bros-ultimate-surpasses-five-million-sales-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-surpasses-five-million-sales-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Surpasses Five Million Sales In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9517c656ce89c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9517c656ce89c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Smash Bros IMG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9517c656ce89c\/smash-bros-img.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9517c656ce89c\/smash-bros-img.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Smash Bros IMG\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>If you hadn\u2019t heard, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> is <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/smash_ultimate_exceeds_12_million_worldwide_sales_top_ten_best-selling_switch_games_revealed\">already<\/a> the third best-selling Switch game as of 31st December 2018. It managed to shift 12.08 million copies worldwide in a single month, placing it right underneath <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> on 13.76 million and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> on 15.02 million.<\/p>\n<p>With these global sales figures &#8211; combing digital, physical and bundle transactions &#8211; now out in the wild, Nintendo of America has taken to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/1091157940302684160\">Twitter<\/a> to thank fans for helping local sales of the game surpass the five million mark.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thank you to all the fans for your strong support of Super #SmashBrosUltimate! Because of you, the game has now sold over 5 million copies in the U.S alone. Everyone is here, let&#8217;s keep the fight going through 2019 and beyond!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Thank You US\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7eb339cda389e\/thank-you-us.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7eb339cda389e\/thank-you-us.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Thank You US\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><em>Are you at all surprised by this? Is there anyone here who doesn&#8217;t own this game yet? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you hadn\u2019t heard, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is already the third best-selling Switch game as of 31st December 2018. It managed to shift 12.08 million copies worldwide in a single month, placing it right underneath Super Mario Odyssey on 13.76 million and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on 15.02 million. With these global sales figures [&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-79796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79796","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=79796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}