Everyone Cares About Splatoon 3 More Than You Think
Splatoon 3 hasn’t just climbed to the top of the charts, it’s absolutely demolishing them, at least in Japan. Nintendo...
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Splatoon 3 hasn’t just climbed to the top of the charts, it’s absolutely demolishing them, at least in Japan. Nintendo announced the latest sequel in its party shooter series has already sold over 3 million copies in just three days there, making Splatoon 3‘s launch bigger than The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Pokémon Sword and Shield, and any other Switch game you can think of. “[D]omestic sales of the Splatoon 3 game for the Nintendo Switch system have surpassed 3.45 million units in the first three days since its launch on September 9, 2022,” Nintendo wrote in a press release today. To put that number in perspective, it’s more than the combined launch sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Pokémon Legends: Arceus in Japan. Here are the top four Switch game launches according to Famitsu:- Splatoon 3: 3.45 million units (September 9, 2022)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons: 1.888 million units (March 20, 2020)
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus: 1.425 million units (January 28, 2022)
- Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl: 1.396 (November 19, 2021)
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