Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has continued to be one of Nintendo’s best sellers. Last we heard, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was able to cross a new milestone by reaching 35.14 million units sold as of September 30, 2024 (crossing over 35 million for the first time).
Despite it being over six years since Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was released on December 7, 2018, the game has continued to sell. Indeed, the latest sales report from Nintendo has indicated that the latest entry in the Super Smash Bros. series managed to push out an additional 700,000 units as of December 31, 2024.
With these updated figures, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has now sold 35.88 million copies. At this pace, it should be able to achieve yet another new milestone at 36 million before the Nintendo Switch 2 gets released.
As a result, this game has continued to cement its place as the third best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch. Additionally, it’s still by far the best-selling entry in the entire Super Smash Bros. series.
Of course, this also means that the second and third best-selling titles on the Switch, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, have also continued to push more units worldwide.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s sales went from 64.27 million units to 67.35 million units. It’s actually incredible to see that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was able to move another 3 million units.
Meanwhile, Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ sales managed to go from 46.45 million to 47.44 million. Indeed, it was nearly able to sell an additional million units in those three months.
As for the Nintendo Switch itself, it saw an increase in sales going from about 146 million systems to 150.86 million systems. It still has a little ways to go before it’s able to catch up to the Nintendo DS (154.02 million units) and the PlayStation 2 (over 160 million units).
The new Nintendo Switch 2 trailer provided a short tease of the next Mario Kart entry that’s set to appear on that console. This suggests that Nintendo is paying attention to their best-selling games from the Switch.
Masahiro Sakurai recently revealed that he’s been working on a secret game project since April 2022. He apparently whipped up the game proposal for this project back in July 2021 “at lightning speed” when he was still juggling the development of Kazuya and Sora as DLC for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
We’ll likely get a new entry to the Super Smash Bros. series on the Nintendo Switch 2 as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has continued to be a huge success for Nintendo six years later.
Source: Event Hubs
