![]() ![]() ![]() That was enough for Nintendo to greenlight three more games in the franchise (Xenoblade DE, Xenoblade 3 and TBA) so I wouldn't write off Pikmin just yet.Īlso, the biggest game sales of the year happen at the end of this month and in early December. Xenoblade 2 was a costly endeavor and that sold 1.73 million as a new title. It wouldn't be surprising if in a couple of years, Pikmin 3 Deluxe is sitting at 2.5 million, which would be enough to get it in the top 25 best selling games on the system. That and the Wii U's downward success trajectory caused many games to die off much faster than Nintendo titles usually do, as gamers left the system in droves. Particularly when it's an enhanced port that costs mere pennies on the dollar to create compared to a new title, making it nearly pure profit. Anything that sells over a million, Nintendo sees as a successful. Also, the sales in the UK in general aren't a strong indicator of performance overall.Įven if all it ended up doing was MATCHING the sales of the original, it sold 1.27 million. Being down 18% in a world where 50-75% of game sales are digital means that it almost IRREFUTABLY outsold the Wii U release by a SUBSTANTIAL margin. First of all, when Pikmin 3 launched on the Wii U, it wasn't available digitally. Mon 2nd Nov This article seems to have left you with the wrong impression.Have you bought a copy of Pikmin 3 Deluxe? Did you buy the original on Wii U? Let us know in the usual place. Digital sales are on the up across the board, after all, even more so thanks to the current pandemic, and we're sure plenty of Pikmin fans have chosen to download a copy of the game this time around. It's worth noting that Nintendo doesn't disclose its weekly digital sales data, and if digital sales were included, that 18.5% gap likely wouldn't be quite as severe. Physical chart data shows that the game debuted in seventh place, being outperformed by plenty of other Nintendo titles which have been available for some time. reports that in terms of physical sales in the UK, the Switch version's opening week sales are down 18.5% when compared to the original Wii U release.
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