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Nintendo Boasts Big Gains After Cyber Monday Sales

Published Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:10:22 -0600

Last updated Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:11:11 -0600

Nintendo sent out some stats this morning following Cyber Monday's sales, boasting that the company his some major milestones this past weekend. We have some of the finer stats below from the company, but in short, they made over $250 million between Thanksgiving and this past Monday alone, which gave them a 45% growth over last year's results. And that figure doesn't even include all the pre-orders for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Essentially, this is one of the best weekends Nintendo has ever had during the holidays, going all the way back to the '90s.

Nintendo Switch

Nintendo Switch hardware sales grew 115 percent compared to the same period in 2017.

Lifetime sales of Nintendo Switch, which is entering only its second holiday season, have reached more than 8.2 million units.

Sales of first-party games, including digital downloads, topped 1 million units Nov. 22-26, beating 2017's totals by 78 percent.

Nintendo Switch games Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! have hit combined U.S. sales of more than 1.5 million units since their Nov. 16 launch.

Super Mario Party surpassed lifetime U.S. sales of 1 million units, becoming the fastest-selling game in the Mario Party series and the fifth million-selling first-party Nintendo Switch game in the U.S. alone, joining The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey and Splatoon 2.

Nintendo 3DS

Thanks in part to strong Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday sales, the total installed base for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has hit 22 million.

Additionally, after 12 months of availability, lifetime combined sales of the Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon games crossed 2.2 million.

Classic Gaming Systems

Also aided by strong Nov. 22-26 sales, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition system surpassed lifetime sales of 2.5 million.

And the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition system surpassed lifetime sales of 2 million.