Nintendo has sold 1.62M copies of Splatoon worldwide

Mario and Link need to induct some new characters into the Nintendo character club, and they are both squids and kids.

Splatoon is the latest original Nintendo property to catch on with a pretty sizable audience. The publisher said it sold 1.62 million copies of Splatoon worldwide. That is a huge number for a new idea making its debuted — especially on a system that has as few owners as the Wii U. To put this in perspective, Nintendo sold 4.55 million games in total last quarter. That means Splatoon made up 35 percent of every game sold on Nintendo’s home console from April through June — and Splatoon didn’t even debut until May.