Capcom's Japanese - exclusive Nintendo 3DS title, Monster Hunter X, has only been available for less than four days, yet it has already managed to outsell Monster Hunter 4G's eShop
lifetime sales numbers — since October 11, 2014 — according to Nintendo Japan's eShop rankings.
Nintendo has not released official
lifetime sales numbers for the 3DS since June 30th, 2017.
The Switch already became the fastest - selling console in the U.S. over a ten - month period back in January and has already skyrocketed past its predecessor's
lifetime sales numbers, but the most recent NPD report shows that Switch sales aren't slowing down.
That is
its lifetime sales number.
Not exact matches
If it hits that
number, the one - year
sales of Switch will top the
lifetime sales of Wii U, its previous home console.
Sales have exceeded initial estimates, on track to beat the
lifetime numbers of its predecessor Wii U, leaving suppliers scrambling for parts.
You can check out the software chart below, with the second
number for each game indicating
lifetime sales.
And yet even if we assume that all book
sales will eventually be electronic (they won't — at least not in our
lifetime), the
numbers still aren't all that attractive for the self - publishers.
Now, taking into consideration the fact that the average self - published book sells a mere 75 copies in it's entire
lifetime, and the fact that paper is supposed to be dead, and add to that the fact that the
number she gave me didn't even include
sales she made through Amazon or other online distribution channels, but only books she ordered and sold directly herself, your jaw should be dropping at this
number, too.
A growing
number of trad - pub new books sell less than 1,000 copies in their first year (which usually means in their
lifetime, since print books make most of their
sales on the first couple of months since release).
In addition, the folks over at Roberts Space Industries have begun a final week - long
sale for the newly revealed ship, with a
number of options available depending on how players wish to proceed, but this will be the final opportunity to buy a ship with
lifetime insurance (ie.
- 670,955 copies sold within its first three days - biggest debut for a Switch title - highest selling Switch title to date -
number includes physical game copies, download cards, and Splatoon 2 Switch hardware bundles - does not include digital
sales - Splatoon for Wii U sold 156,610 units within its first four days of release, and achieved
lifetime sales of 1,512,789 units - total Switch hardware
sales in Japan at 1,205,087
The
number of 8th generation consoles sold to date is lower than the
number of consoles sold last generation in the same timeframe and many market research firms are pegging
lifetime 8th generation console
sales at around the 150 million mark, which again is lower than the last two generations.
Lifetime sales of the Wii U, which Nintendo describes as enjoying «improved
sales momentum», now stand at 7.29 m, which places it behind the PS4's 10m + but possibly ahead of Microsoft's unconfirmed Xbox One
sales number.
Resident Evil 7 «s release also pushes up
numbers for
lifetime series
sales.
Below you can read the top - twenty, keeping in mind that the second
number associated with each game represents its
lifetime sales.
The second
number for each game represents its
lifetime sales at brick and mortar stores.
The second
number for each game represents its local
lifetime sales.
Seeing how far behind Sony it was falling in
lifetime - to - date
sales, Microsoft stopped publicly reporting Xbox One
sales numbers in October 2015, so it's unlikely the public will ever know just how many units Microsoft moved last month.
The
number of Switch units sold is not only impressive on its own, but also because how easily and how quickly it was able to surpass the
lifetime sales of the Wii U.
Total quarterly global smartwatch
sales are still said to
number in the hundreds of thousands at this point, so Apple will almost certainly surpass
lifetime smartwatch
sales of any given rival during the Apple Watch's first few months of availability.