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title: "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Pokemon Let’s GO launch sales"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/super-smash-bros-ultimate-and-pokemon-lets-go-launch-sales/"
description: "Media Create has published their sales data for the period between December 3 and December 9, 2018.As expected, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was No. 1"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2018-12-14 10:10:08"
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Pokemon Let’s GO launch sales | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Pokemon Let’s GO launch sales](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/super-smash-bros.-ultimate-and-pokemon-lets-go-launch-sales.jpg "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Pokemon Let’s GO launch sales")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/super-smash-bros.-ultimate-and-pokemon-lets-go-launch-sales.jpg)**Media Create** has published their sales data for the period between December 3 and December 9, 2018. As expected, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was the No. 1 bestselling game in Japan.

## [](#launch-sales)Launch sales

Media Create puts launch sales at 1,220,535 copies. Coming in at No. 2 is Pokemon Let’s GO Pikachu/Eevee, which managed to move 93,787 units to bump its lifetime sales to 1,012,247.Following closely at

**Runner ups**

No. 3 is Super Mario Party at 69,861 (figures include Joy-Con bundle), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe selling 20,995 copies at No. 4, and Splatoon 2 moving 19,083 copies at No. 5. As you can see it’s a strong week for Nintendo thanks to the spillover effect from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Similar to Famitsu, Media Create puts Nintendo Switch hardware sales at 281,222 systems sold (75.5% of the hardware market), so lifetime sales estimated by Media Create are now at 6 million.

Please be aware all of the numbers are for JUST Japan.

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