If all 18 million Switch units are sold by 2018, then the console will have already
surpassed lifetime sales of the Wii U, which only sold around 14 million units — in a span of five years, for the record.
According to the developer, this was around 26,000 units from
surpassing the lifetime sales of the previous game, Invisible War.
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.
Not exact matches
Splatoon is just shy of a quarter million sold and will
surpass that next week, while Super Mario Maker is on its heels with 350k
lifetime sales.
The Nintendo Switch has at last
surpassed the Wii U's total
lifetime sales in Japan.
Konami has announced in their latest financial result that the Metal Gear series has now
surpassed 49.2 million copies in worldwide
lifetime sales, as of March 2016.
Led by Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo Switch software
sales have already
surpassed more than half of the Wii U's
lifetime game
sales.
The 14 million mark is also significant, as it would mean that the Switch had
surpassed the Wii U's
lifetime sales in under a year.
Nintendo's little white plastic exercise board (AKA WiiFit) has
surpassed Bungie's Halo 3 in terms of
lifetime sales in North America.
While it may easily
surpass lifetime GameCube
sales within its second year on
sale, which sit at 21.74 million, it needs to sell another five million to match the Wii's first - year
sales.
More specifically, three months of Switch revenue
surpassed the Steam version's
lifetime sales 20 times over.
In just ten months, the Nintendo Switch has
surpassed its predecessor's
lifetime sales.
According to figures released by Famitsu and Media Create on Mar. 25, Nintendo's portable home console
surpassed the 4 million units mark for
lifetime sales within its country of origin last month.
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.
According to Reuters, which cites a Yonhap News Agency report that the site couldn't be bothered to link, Samsung expects combined
lifetime sales of its new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 + to
surpass combined
lifetime sales of its previous - generation Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge.