The Pc Leisure Provider’s Affiliation, or CESA for brief, has launched this 12 months’s annual documentation of Nintendo’s gross sales from the earlier 12 months. The gross sales knowledge that CESA gives could be very attention-grabbing, because it gives gross sales numbers on video video games that Nintendo doesn’t often present themselves. This 12 months’s gross sales knowledge from the CESA paperwork Nintendo’s gross sales knowledge as much as December thirty first, 2021.
Plenty of the gross sales themselves aren’t that shocking. Nonetheless, there’s one recreation in there that will shock you. You see, CESA’s gross sales knowledge not solely consists of the 3-4 months previous to the top of the restricted time interval of Tremendous Mario thirty fifth anniversary video games, however something afterwards. Tremendous Mario 3D All-Stars managed to promote 750,000 models final 12 months, for a lifetime gross sales whole of 9,070,000. Nintendo’s 2021 fiscal 12 months report had lifetime gross sales of the sport at 9,010,000 as of March thirty first, 2021. That was the date when Tremendous Mario 3D All-Stars and Tremendous Mario 35’s restricted launch interval ended. It appears that evidently the sport managed to promote 60,000 extra models after the sport was not obtainable, although it isn’t recognized how this occurred.
As for different video games, the sport that acquired probably the most gross sales in 2021 was Tremendous Mario Maker 2. It managed to promote virtually 1,000,000 copies final 12 months, the one first-party recreation on the listing to come back near that milestone, for a lifetime gross sales whole of seven,890,000. Not too far behind that recreation is The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening, which bought 750,000 models in 2021 for a lifetime gross sales whole of 6,080,000. You’ll be able to see the complete listing beneath.
- Tremendous Mario 3D All-Stars – 750,000 (9,070,000)
- Tremendous Mario Maker 2 – 980,000 (7,890,000)
- The Legend of Zelda: Hyperlink’s Awakening – 750,000 (6,080,000)
- Mario Tennis Aces – 620,000 (4,280,000)
- Donkey Kong Nation: Tropical Freeze – 700,000 (4,120,000)
- Kirby Star Allies – 560,000 (3,980,000)
- Hearth Emblem: Three Homes – 420,000 (3,820,000)
- 1-2 Change – 180,000 (3,630,000)
- Paper Mario: The Origami King – 290,000 (3,340,000)
- Yoshi’s Crafted World – 450,000 (3,010,000)
- ARMS – 100,000 (2,660,000)
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – 270,000 (2,440,000)
- Pikmin 3 Deluxe – 290,000 (2,230,000)
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – 360,000 (2,130,000)
- Pokemon Thriller Dungeon: Rescue Workforce DX – 290,000 (1,890,000)
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Version – 200,000 (1,680,000)
- Mario Kart Reside: House Circuit – 500,000 (1,580,000)
- Marvel Final Alliance 3: The Black Order – 190,000 (1,500,000)
- Astral Chain – 70,000 (1,280,000)
- Dr Kawashima’s Mind Coaching – 150,000 (1,200,000)
- Bayonetta 2 – 70,000 (1,040,000)
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