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Switch worldwide sales top 41.67 million, he Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening sales top 3.13 million

4.8 million Switch hardware sold in the last three months.

Nintendo Switch has sold 41.67 million units worldwide as of September 30, 2019, Nintendo announced in its latest earnings release.

A total of 4.8 million Switch hardware and 35.88 million software were sold during the three months ended September 30. The September 20-released Switch Lite accounts for 1.95 million hardware unit sales.

Nintendo did not make any revisions to its previously announced forecast that it will sell 18 million Switch units between April 2019 and March 2020.

Nintendo also shared updated sales numbers for its first-party Switch titles, revealing the first official numbers for The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. The 10 best-selling first-party Switch titles are:

1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 19.01 million
2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 15.71 million
3. Super Mario Odyssey – 15.38 million
4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 14.54 million
5. Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee! – 11.28 million
6. Splatoon 2 – 9.28 million
7. Super Mario Party – 7.59 million
8. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 4.59 million
9. Super Mario Maker 2 – 3.93 million
10. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening – 3.13 million (released September 20)

Nintendo also announced that the July 26-released Fire Emblem: Three Houses has sold 2.29 million units.

More than 246.01 million Switch games have been sold worldwide.

Source: Gematsu

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Awesome, it was a great game in 93 and it's a great game now

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

Great numbers, and here comes the holiday season + Switch Lite and the first real Pokemon game.

Wasn't a fan of Links Awakenings art style. Grezzo literally used the gameboy's artstyle as the basis rather than re imagined it.
Still glad it sold well though.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Crazy that I haven't played this new one but I've had my eye on it. I'm jumping on the first black Friday deal I see. From what I garner the sales are definitely deserved.

 

[WildBoy]

This makes me fuzzy inside What a stellar stream of output from Nintendo - and botw 2 and prime 4 to come! Oh yeh and pokemon...

 

[Gavin Stevens]

I've not played it since launch where I beat it stupidly fast.

Anyway, was it ever patched to fix the stupid double buffering?

 

[-Arcadia-]

It's kind of crazy that Link's Awakening sold for ten days, and made the all-time top ten Switch sellers.

 

[Codes 208]

Crazy that the switch has caught up (if notable surpassed) the XBO in lifetime sales in roughly 1/3 the time.

It's kind of crazy that Link's Awakening sold for ten days, and made the all-time top ten Switch sellers.

Nostalgia sells. Its a super easy game but hell if it doesnt bring back a lot of good memories. Kinda hope they make a similar remake of the oracle games next.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

i enjoyed playing it but as soon as i finished i sold it. doubt i'd ever want to go back to it. it's fun but just something about it made me never want to touch it again.

 

[Airbus Jr]

I already played Wind Waker and curently Breath of the Wild

This one is on my list after im done with botw

Any plans for Nintendo to remaster Skyward Sword to Switch?

 

[-Arcadia-]

I already played Wind Waker and curently Breath of the Wild

This one is on my list after im done with botw

Any plans for Nintendo to remaster Skyward Sword to Switch?

None at this time, I'm afraid. Would love to see that game get a second, HD lease on life, and touch-ups. The thing kind of looked Disney movie on the Wii alone, and I think a remaster could be absolutely beautiful.

Controversial opinion: Not nearly my favorite Zelda game, but one that I had so much fun playing. Something about Skyward felt very classic, and old-school, in the very best way.

 

[Max_Po]

it is pretty awesome.. I finished it.

Congrats to Nintendo....

 

[-Arcadia-]

Crazy that the switch has caught up (if notable surpassed) the XBO in lifetime sales in roughly 1/3 the time.

Nostalgia sells. Its a super easy game but hell if it doesnt bring back a lot of good memories. Kinda hope they make a similar remake of the oracle games next.

If it really has surpassed Xbone, that's a testament to how much Nintendo has done everything right, while Microsoft (at launch) floundered. Absolutely love what they're doing with Xbox these days, but it seems that specter hasn't been something they've been able to get rid of.

I love this version of LA, so I'm not quite on the same page, although I think we mostly are, but I agree that doing the Oracles next, and taking advantage of the technology they have set up, would be pretty awesome. Oracle of Ages is such a great game.