Switch had 23 million-selling games last fiscal year
Smash Bros. Ultimate nears 14 million sales, Pokémon Let’s Go 11 million sales
Nintendo has said 23 Switch games sold over one million copies during its fiscal year ending March 31, 2019.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate led the way with 13.81 million units sold following its early December release, making it the third bestselling Switch game to date.
It was followed by Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, which sold 10.63 million units after its mid-November release, making it the fifth bestselling Switch game.
October release Super Mario Party sold 6.4 million copies by the end of March.
Switch’s bestselling game to date, April 2017 release Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, sold 7.47 million units during the financial year, taking lifetime sales to 16.69 million.
Second and fourth on Switch’s all-time bestseller list are Super Mario Odyssey with 14.44 million sales and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 12.77 million sales.
In total, 118.55 million Switch software units were sold during Nintendo’s most recent fiscal year, up 86.7% year-on-year.
Switch digital revenue from software sales and Nintendo Switch Online memberships increased 95.4% to ¥118.8 billion ($1.1 billion/£825,000).
On the handheld front, total 3DS software sales were down 62.9% year-on-year to 13.22 million units.
Mario Kart 7 was Nintendo’s only million-selling title for 3DS. It moved 1.21 million copies to extend its lead as the portable system’s bestselling game to date with 18.26 lifetime sales.
In terms of hardware, sales of the eight-year-old 3DS continued to decline, while Switch surpassed lifetime N64 sales.
