Pikmin 4 sells 2.61 million units making it the best-selling game in the series
Nintendo has revealed Pikmin 4 It has sold 2.61 million copies, meaning every title in the series has sold more.
According to Nintendo’s latest financial information for the second quarter of its fiscal year – the last six months ending September 2023 – since its launch on July 21 for the Nintendo Switch, Pikmin 4 has managed to sell almost three million copies, making it the best-selling game of the series (via VGC).
That’s just over two months since release, beating the previous bestseller in the franchise: Pikmin 3 Deluxe which launched in October 2020 and had amassed 2.4 million copies by December 2022.
Nintendo confirmed that there are 1.36 million copies Pikmin 4 were sold in Japan, which is about nine percent more than in any other region, where it has reportedly been the best-selling title in the country for some time.
The game also remains a bestseller on the market, regularly ranking in the top five physical software charts and having sold approximately 930,000 physical copies in Japan alone.
In our four-star review of Pikmin 4Kara Phillips said the latest title breathed new life into the time-losing franchise, adding that it “welcomes new players to a beloved but underrated Nintendo series, while at the same time reminding older players why exactly they fell in love.” have become involved in the crazy world of Pikmin in the first place.”
In other related news, the Nintendo Switch continues to show its popularity as it has now sold 132.46 million units since its release in March 2017. This is from the Investor Relations (IR) page of Nintendo’s Japanese sitewith the milestone covering every version of the handheld, such as the base Nintendo Switch model, the upgraded Nintendo Switch OLED and the cheaper Nintendo Switch Lite.
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