Sales were up 175.5 per cent year-on-year for the nine-month period ended December 2017, with the Switch shifting 12.13m units
Read More »Super Mario Odyssey sells 500k+ in Japan in three days
Nintendo’s Switch platformer Super Mario Odyssey was the comfortable Japanese No.1 in its debut week, according to Famitsu data. The game sold 512k units in its first three days on sale, although unlike other territories this is not a record for the series – in fact, it’s the fourth highest …
Read More »Super Mario Odyssey sets new series record in US and Europe
Switch platformer Super Mario Odyssey has broken Mario sales records on both sides of the Atlantic. Nintendo has announced that the game shifted 1.1m units in the US in its first five days, making it the fastest selling Super Mario game ever in the region – a record it claims …
Read More »Super Mario Odyssey sales hit 2m units
Nintendo has said that it estimates recent release Super Mario Odyssey has sold around 2m copies in its first two days on sale. That equates to a little more than one in every four Switch owners buying a copy. In the UK, Mario just missed out on the chart top …
Read More »Nintendo promotes Super Mario Odyssey with live action music video ahead of release
Just when you thought game trailers couldn’t get any weirder than the all-singing, all-dancing Japanese promo for Destiny 2, Nintendo has released a musical video ahead of the release of Super Mario Odyssey (see below). The song has been a key component of Nintendo’s marketing material ever since the platform holder …
Read More »Nintendo unveils Mario Switch bundle, plus Doom and Wolfenstein II
Nintendo unveiled a swathe of new Switch and 3DS titles last night, including a brand new Super Mario Odyssey-themed Switch hardware bundle and the news that Bethesda’s critically acclaimed Doom (2016) and upcoming Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus titles will also be heading to Switch over the next year. Doom …
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