The Wii U Extended Edition on Nintendo Switch becomes the series’ best-selling title in Japan. Beats the original GameCube.
Pikmin 3 Deluxe has become the best-selling title of the entire series in Japan, including reissues and spin-offs. After its discreet premiere last October, whose announcement was made directly on the social network Twitter, the original Wii U video game is attracting more interest than ever in Japan. The work for Nintendo Switch already exceeds 513,225 units sold this January.
With these numbers, not only is it the fastest-selling of the series, as we see in the graph provided by Game Data Library (sales figures according to Famitsu), but it improves the 502,996 copies of the original Pikmin published in 2001 for the GameCube. Without being too high numbers, since no delivery is even close to a million copies, this reference serves to make it clear that there is still interest in Pikmin, at least in the Japanese archipelago.
Direct comparison with the other games.
2 months of Pikmin 3 Deluxe surpasses 1+ year sales of Pikmin & Pikmin 2. pic.twitter.com/HdhWa2nJBo
– Game Data Library (@GameDataLibrary) January 14, 2021
This edition, Pikmin 3 Deluxe for Nintendo Switch, includes additional content compared to the original Wii U game published in 2013, such as cooperative mode and extra missions with Olimar and Luís, among other details of quality of life in playable matter. In our Reviews we rate it 8.5 out of 100.
Nintendo Switch in 2021, an increasingly crowded calendar
Although 2020 ended with many unknowns around the catalog of exclusive Nintendo Switch releases in 2021, the agenda with specific dates is taking more and more shape. To begin with, on February 12, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, the most ambitious Wii U port to date, will be released; followed by Bravely Default II on February 26. A month later, on March 26, it will be the turn of Monster Hunter Rise, while on April 30 highlights the arrival of New Pokémon Snap, a sequel to the original Nintendo 64 video game published in 1999. Later, in summer, it will be released Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, while No More Heroes III remains undated, but has been committed to arriving in 2021.
In addition, February 27 is the 25th anniversary of Pokémon, a date to be considered by all fans of the saga; especially taking into account the precedents regarding large-scale announcements on that day. For this occasion, to this day, there is nothing anticipated. It will be a “very special” year, they said in November.
