Joker in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate punches out 13.8 million copies

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo reported today that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was a smash hit of the holiday season, with 13.81 million copies sold to date on the Nintendo Switch hybrid game console.

Nintendo reported those numbers with its earnings for the full fiscal year ended March 31, 2019.

But Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still the top seller on the Switch, with 16.69 million copies sold, followed by Super Mario Odyssey with 14.44 million copies sold.

Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu! and Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee! sold 10.63 million units, while Super Mario Party sold 6.4 million units.

 

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.