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title: "Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze sales crush Wii U in Japan"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/donkey-kong-country-tropical-freeze-sales-crush-wii-u-in-japan/"
description: "Releasing Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze seems to have been a golden move. What is not a total surprise of course because it is a super good game!"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2018-05-25 12:40:30"
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Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze sales crush Wii U in Japan | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze sales crush Wii U in Japan](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/donkey-kong-country-tropical-freeze-verkopen-verpletteren-wii-u-in-japan.jpg "Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze sales crush Wii U in Japan")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/donkey-kong-country-tropical-freeze-verkopen-verpletteren-wii-u-in-japan.jpg)Releasing Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze seems to have been a golden move. What is not a total surprise of course because it is a super good game!

## [](#sales-in-japan)Sales in Japan

D**engeki online** reports that the Tropical Freeze sales ratio on the Nintendo Switch is no less than 65% after the first week. Almost a doubling of the Wii U version at the time, which had sold only 35% of the shipped numbers in the same period.

Earlier we saw in the Japanese sales figures that this translated into 88,412 copies – a very strong start for Donkey Kong. For comparison: on the Wii U, this was just over 35,000 in the first week.

Donkey Kong Country – Tropical Freeze has been available on the Nintendo Switch since May 4th.

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