The record for Street Fighter II and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which came out less than a year ago, continues to make history within the fighting genre.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate begins to run out of records to overcome. The numbers of Nintendo's latest financial report already place the title at around 15.71 million copies, a figure that makes Masashiro Sakurai's work the best-selling fighting game in history, beating Street Fighter II, who so far he wore the crown with 15.5 million units sold among all its versions. A historical achievement that, for more inri, has been achieved in less than a year, it is worth remembering that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate came out on December 7, 2018.
The numbers of Nintendo's latest financial report (April to September 2019).
These numbers make the title also surpass the previous installments of the saga (Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U stayed at 15 million and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, at 13.3). In addition the franchise is consolidated as the best selling of the genre and accumulates 53.03 million units sold, taking off from the 45 and 47 million around which move names of the likes of Tekken, Dragon Ball, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. The top rival of the series now seems to be Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the only Nintendo Switch game that has sold more than Ultimate, having recently reached 19 million copies.
A long future ahead
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has not only not completed a year on sale, but has not even finished with its DLC plans and downloadable content. The fourth fighter of the first season pass of the title, which consists of five additions, is Terry Bogard and is presented on November 6. After this first Fighter Pass there are even more fighters confirmed on the way and Sakurai has already stated that he is aware that these record numbers, not only in sales, but also in relation to the number of fighters (go for 79), are impossible to repeat. How far will the Ultimate phenomenon go?
