Super Smash Bros. Ultimate smashes sales records to become highest selling fighting game
New fiscal reports are in, meaning that the time has come once more to pore over dozens of official documents and pieces of information about how the game industry is doing. Nintendo has released their financial briefing for the past fiscal year, with one of the major reveals being that the Nintendo Switch has outsold the Nintendo 64. Another interesting tidbit stems from the sales document, showing the incredible popularity of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Since its release in December, the game has sold 13.81 million copies. Living up to the name of “Ultimate”, the latest Smash Bros. game has surpassed even Super Smash Bros. Brawl as the highest selling franchise entry. Brawl previously held the record at 13.30 million units. And if you’re going by a single video game release, Ultimate is also now the highest selling fighting game of all time. Super Street Fighter II sits at a higher 14.05 million, though this counts every major re-release of the title, as opposed to Ultimate’s single release, while Super Smash Bros for Wii U/3DS combined achieved a whopping 14.85 million sales, though when separated, they’re at 5.36 mil (Wii U) and 9.49 mil (3DS). Nintendo itself considers these games to be separate entities, due to differing content between the two.
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