By Leif Johnson
If you’ve been thinking that Nintendo is having a great year, its latest financial report proves you haven’t been wrong.
We’ve already written about the sales of the new Nintendo Switch console, which have been so outstanding that the device is on track to overtake the lifetime sales of the Wii U within a year.
But the games are selling well, too. The newly released Super Mario Odyssey reached sales of 2 million in just three days, which is a wild improvement over the month it took the critically acclaimed Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to reach 2.7 million sales. In our review, we called Odyssey one of Mario’s “most inventive adventures yet.”
Nintendo also dropped in some numbers about the SNES Classic Edition. Even with the shortages that followed almost immediately after its release, Nintendo managed to sell more than 2 million units within a month of release. That number is likely to go up much higher now that fresh shipments are starting to go out to GameStop and other stores.
It’s not all rainbow roads, however. Super Mario Run is proof that popularity doesn’t always mean success, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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