What is the best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch? ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’, which is considered to have opened a new horizon in open world games, ‘Gather in Animal Crossing’, which caused a worldwide craze and caused a shortage of Nintendo Switch, and Brawl as a Nintendo crossover fighting game. On the 29th, the game that took first place among numerous nominations, such as ‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’, which added a characteristic, was released.
On the 29th, the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA), a Japanese corporation, published the ‘2022 Game White Paper’ containing various data related to the game industry in Japan and abroad. According to the white paper, the best-selling game among Nintendo Switch games was ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’. A total of 46.82 million copies were sold as a result of a global survey of sales up to the second quarter of this year.
2nd place was occupied by ‘Gather, Animal Forest’, which was at the center of the untact craze. Considering that it has been a little over two years since it was released with 39.38 million copies, it can be seen that the sales have increased rapidly. ‘Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’, which had a gap of about 10 million copies from the second place with 28.82 million copies, took third place, and the long-awaited ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ was named in fourth place with 27.14 million copies.
Next, ‘Pokemon Sword and Shield’, ‘Super Mario Odyssey’, ‘Super Mario Party’, ‘Pokemon Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl’, and ‘Pokemon Let’s Go! ‘Pikachu Eevee’ took place in that order, and finally, ‘Ring Fit Adventure’, which became a hot topic with its original concept combining game and exercise, took 10th place.
This is not the only game that achieved a platinum seller, which means sales of more than 10 million copies, which is difficult to achieve even for AAA-level games. Although it did not make it into the top 10, ‘New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe’, ‘Splatoon 2’, ‘Pokemon Legend Arceus’, and ‘Luigi Mansion 3’ also achieved platinum sellers, and a total of 14 games achieved platinum sellers. could check that