That’s up from 64.27 million sales in the last quarter. With a new Mario Kart on the horizon for the Nintendo Switch 2, it should be interesting to see if the current game’s sales take a hit. Nintendo teased the sequel in its reveal trailer for the console with 12 racers, a more open environment and a redesign for Donkey Kong.

Other notable first-party sales figures include Animal Crossing: New Horizon (47.44 million), Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (35.88 million), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (32.62 million) and Super Mario Odyssey (29.04 million). Check out the full top ten below, which includes not one but two sets of Pokemon titles.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is in second place with 46.45 million sales (from 45.85 million in the previous quarter). Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is in fourth place with 35.14 million units sold, followed by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 32.29 million sales and Super Mario Odyssey at 28.50 million.

The only real change in rankings is The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at 21.04 million sales, finally passing 2018’s Super Mario Party (20.98 million units sold) for eighth place. Check out the top ten best-selling titles for the Nintendo Switch as of September 30th below.

Sakurai recently uploaded a video to his YouTube channel. Meant as the channel’s final upload, the video also touches on the next project Sakurai and his team at Sora Ltd. 

Sakurai says he initially wrote the proposal for his next project in July 2021, and that though the project had been greenlit by October that year, the plan was to begin development by April of 2022, with time required to “assemble the right team.” As per him, the game started production on time, which means it has been in development for roughly two and a half years at this point. 

Details on what the game is are scarce, as mentioned previously. Whether it will be a new Super Smash Bros. game or something else entirely is, of course, the question on everyone’s mind. If it is the former, it should also be interesting to see what form it takes. 

Either way, in the video, Sakurai stated that the title would be “announced sooner or later”, so hopefully it won’t be too long before we have some more concrete information. 

Other noteworthy figures include Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at 34.66 million sales, followed by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 32.05 million and Super Mario Odyssey at 28.21 million. Among the recent releases are The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at 20.80 million, which launched in May 2023.

Despite impressive figures over their respective lifetimes, Nintendo noted a 41.3 percent decrease in software sales for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2025. It sold 30.64 million software units for the Switch in that period, citing a lack of “special factors” compared to the same quarter last year.

Check out the top ten best-selling Nintendo Switch titles as of June 30th below, courtesy of Nintendo’s official site.

If taken together with the original Wii U release, Mario Kart 8’s lifetime sales sit at a whopping 70.43 million. Other noteworthy milestones include Animal Crossing: New Horizons at 45.36 million sales, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at 34.22 million and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 31.85 million.

As for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it’s sold 20.61 million since launching on May 12th for the Switch, up from the previous quarter’s 20.28 million. Check out the top ten highest-selling titles on the Nintendo Switch as of March 31st, 2024, below.

On January 11, new Spirits will become available in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for players to add to their Spirit Boards. The Spirits will be available for five days, and will bring characters from several Nintendo titles that have released since support ended for Smash Ultimate. Artwork shared by Nintendo seems to suggest we’ll be getting Spirits for Rauru from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Oatchi from Pikmin 4, Noah and Mio from Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Shiver and Frye from Splatoon 3.

Though it’s been several years since the launch of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, little is known yet about what the future holds for the franchise. Back in November 2021, series creator and director Masahiro Sakurai said he hadn’t started thinking about the next Smash instalment just yet (with support for Ultimate having only just ended at the time), and later added that the next game would likely have to shrink its roster of fighters.

In July last year, Sakurai said that though it was “fair to assume” that there would be another Smash game “at some point”, it would “take some work to figure out exactly how to make that happen.”

For five days starting 1/11, new spirits from various series' latest titles, such as The Legend of #Zelda: #TearsOfTheKingdom and #Splatoon3, will be making their way to the #SmashBrosUltimate Spirit Board! Defeat them in battle to earn more gold than usual. pic.twitter.com/OlLHn3C1sm

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) January 10, 2024

Starting November 19, users will be able to purchase a Nintendo Switch OLED + Super Smash Bros. Ultimate bundle. Packaging the game with the console and a three-month individual subscription of Nintendo Switch Online, it will also come with exclusive Joy-con controllers sporting design inspired by the fighter, and will retail for a price of $349.99.

Additionally, a new red and blue Joy-con bundle that will include Super Mario Party, and will release on November 10 for a price of $99.99.

In addition to that, through select retailers, the company will also offer discounts on various first party titles starting November 19, with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Luigi’s Mansion 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Super Mario Odyssey retailing for $39.99, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe, and Minecraft Legends: Deluxe Edition for $29.99, and Everybody 1-2-Switch for $19.99. A day later, on November 20, Nintendo will start offering additional discounts for first and third party titles on the eShop.

Following Pikmin 4‘s sales in Japan is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, followed by Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, which sold 39,845 copies on the PS5 for the month of September. The rest of the top 10 list is largely populated by Nintendo’s titles, with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet taking up fourth place, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom taking up seventh place.

Pikmin 1 + 2 is also present in the monthly sales figures for September, sitting at sixth place. Armored Core 6 itself is also impressive, with the game’s PS4 release taking up the ninth spot on the list, followed by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Check out the top ten best selling games for the period between August 28 to September 24, according to Famitsu, below.

1. Pikmin 4
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
3. Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon (PS5)
4. Pocket Monsters Scarlet and Violet
5. Minecraft: Switch Edition
6. Pikmin 1 + 2
7. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
8. Ring Fit Adventure
9. Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon (PS4)
10. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

For starters, the evergreen Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has continued to enjoy strong sales. With over 1.67 million units sold during Q1 (April-June) of FY 23/24, the kart racer now sits at 55.46 million units worldwide. Alongside The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it was the only first party Nintendo title to sell over a million units over the course of the three-month period. 

Speaking of which, Tears of the Kingdom, which has sold over 18.5 million units as of June 30, has instantly entered the Switch’s first party top 10 as well, entering at No. 9 above New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe and pushing Ring Fit Adventure out of the top 10. Its predecessor, Breath of the Wild, has also enjoyed steady sales, and has now sold 30.65 million units, up from 29.81 million units as of the end of the previous quarter. 

Meanwhile, Animal Crossing: New Horizons now stans at 42.79 million units sold, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at 31.77 million units, and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet at 22.66 million units. You can check out the full top 10 and their updated sales figures below. 

Nintendo has also announced that the Switch’s worldwide sales have surpassed 129.5 million units.

Top 10 highest-selling first party Nintendo Switch titles (as of June 30, 2023):

That’s a question that has been asked more than a few times in recent years, not only by fans and critics, but also by series creator Masahiro Sakurai himself. In a recent video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Sakurai touched on the topic once again, saying that, at least as things stand right now, it’s hard for him to imagine Smash Bros. continuing without him, since there’s no one available yet who can serve as a suitable replacement- which is something he’s mentioned in the past as well.

“The question is, what happens next time? I mean whatever comes after Smash Bros. Ultimate,” Sakurai said (transcription via Nintendo Everything). “One option would be to separate the series itself from the original creator. But for now, at least, I can’t really imagine a Smash Bros. title without me. You might think that’s a natural stance for someone in my role, but I say so speaking objectively. I feel the same way president Iwata did when we formed the team for Smash Bros. Brawl. At present, we don’t have someone who can simply take the reigns.”

Sakurai went on to muse on what the next Smash Bros. game might look like. After acknowledging that, given the massive popularity and success the series enjoys, it’s fair to assume that there probably will be another new Smash game at some point in the future, he said that it’s hard to nail down right now just what it’ll end up being. According to Sakurai, it’s going to be a while before he and his team can figure out just what comes next for Smash.

“Smash Bros. is a massive, important title for Nintendo, so it’s fair to assume there will be another one at some point, but it’s going to take some work to figure out exactly how to make that happen,” he said. “For my part, I’d like to keep working with Nintendo however I’m able.”

In the past, Sakurai has said a few times that the next Super Smash Bros. game is likely going to have a much smaller roster of fighters than Ultimate did.

How long it’ll be before we hear something concrete about the future of Smash remains to be seen, but with it now having been nearly two years since the release of the last DLC fighter for Ultimate, the apetite for more Smash Bros. is certainly increasing amongst the audiences once more. Either way, as Sakurai himself says, sooner or later, it’s fair to assume that there almost definitely will be a new Smash game at some point in the future.