 Holy man, so Super Mario Odyssey, I knew it was selling well, Nintendo's financial briefing update said 2 million units were sold in the first 3 days, but they didn't break down where those units came from, which countries were doing best, and now we have some additional data that not only tells you that the first 3 days were amazing, we have data from the first 5 days in the United States that are extremely, extremely impressive, and now we have some information from Europe as well. So first let's cover the stuff I already knew that I didn't make a specific video about because I was waiting for more sales updates. Super Mario Odyssey is the fastest selling 3D Mario game in Japan, it sold over 500,000 copies on the first few days, and that's just amazing, the next closest one was a little over 300,000, and to put it into bigger perspective in Japan, only two games in the entire Mario franchise outpaced Super Mario Odyssey, and you guess what those are? New Super Mario Brothers, we and new Super Mario Brothers on DS, so yeah, outside of the first time bringing back 2D Mario, nothing in this sold faster than Super Mario Odyssey in Japan, and you figure out, well maybe that's where the story ends, but no, let's head on over to Europe. So Nintendo says that Super Mario Odyssey has become the fastest selling Super Mario game ever across Europe, so none of the games are ahead of it. It surpassed the launch weekend sales of Super Mario Galaxy 2, which came to Wii several years ago, Super Mario Odyssey is also the fastest selling Switch game in Europe, no numbers given, but obviously this is good news, when you're the fastest selling Mario game ever released in the whole of Europe, that's just intense. Now here's one where we do get some sales figures, and this includes two additional days that were not part of Nintendo's financial briefing at the time, because well frankly the game hadn't been out for five days at the time of that briefing. Mario Odyssey has sold apparently 1.1 million copies in the US in the first five days, and apparently now they're clarifying here it is the fastest selling Super Mario game ever, there are some mainline Mario games that aren't called Super Mario, so it's a little bit play on PR to try to get that best selling Mario game everything going, but here's the press release that they sent to my email. It says in just five days the new Super Mario Odyssey video game for the Nintendo Switch system sold more than, oh sorry, more than 1.1 million units in the US alone. That makes it the fastest selling Super Mario game ever in the United States, suppressing and this is what's really impressive, the new Super Mario Bros Wii game, Super Mario Odyssey is also the fastest selling game so far for the Nintendo Switch. The game has already been enjoyed by well over a million people and is likely to be enjoyed by many more, as those early players continue to spread their excitement for Mario. On Metacritic.com which aggregates scores from certain reviewers for example, the game currently has a critical review average of 97 with 43 perfect scores. This makes Super Mario Odyssey the best review game on Metacritic for any system of the last three years, tied only with Nintendo Switch launch game Breath of the Wild. The public continues to respond positively to Mario's latest adventures, said Reggie Fisame, Nintendo of America's president and COO. We are seeing sales momentum for Nintendo Switch thanks to an ever-growing catalogue of games from large publishers and indie developers. Nintendo has increased supplies to the Nintendo Switch to meet demand through the holidays. A total number of Nintendo Switch systems sold in the United States through the end of October now stands at 2.6 million. Oh my gosh, let me explain something to you about that 2.6 million mark. They just did that financial brief update. Through September 30th, the Switch had sold 2 million units in the United States. You know what that means for the month of October? Nintendo sold 600,000 units of the Nintendo Switch in the month of October. I'm sure Super Mario Odyssey had a big deal to do with that. People ordering the Odyssey bundle and just the fact that the Switch was just plentiful in October. In general, that's huge. That's 600,000 before we even get to the major holiday month of November. It could move in a million. No one on Nintendo updated their projections from 10 million to 14 or 16 million or whatever it was because look at what's happening. 600,000 in the very first month that the Switch was easy to get your hands on and we haven't even hit the full holiday stride. This is wow. Wow, wow, wow. Now our sale amount, we're going to continue through November. It should, thanks to the Black Friday shopping season at the end of this month. But there's also third party games and it'll be interesting to see if third party games this month can carry the load until Xenobite Chronicles 2 comes out. Now there has been some criticism of Nintendo because they haven't really been... They did that Xenobite Chronicles 2 long feature in a direct and that was nice and everything but they haven't... That kind of long feature doesn't really advertise the game well and let me explain. The one complaint I had when the last time they showed out Xenobite Chronicles 2 is it was just too much. It was information overload and when you do an information overload like that in a very complex game like a JRPG it could really be off-putting. And to be fair, I was kind of put off by Xenobite Chronicles 2 just because of how much information was thrown at you at once. It's too much. In a game like Xenobite you don't need to show off all of the complexities of it. People just need to know those complexities exist. And ever since then they really haven't said anything about the game. I haven't seen any TV ads for it which of course you know with Odyssey right now I won't expect TV ads for another couple weeks but Nintendo needs to do a better job promoting that game in this final month leading up to release. I mean we're less than a month away officially as of today for Xenobite Chronicles 2 coming out which it'll be arguably Nintendo's like biggest in terms of world and maybe even gameplay time game they've released on Switch themselves. So it would be nice to see that game. I want to see Xenobite treated like Zelda and Mario and Splatoon. I want to see Nintendo actually put a real marketing budget behind it because JRPG sell, people just need to know they exist. But yeah I'm really excited about these numbers. I mean Odyssey is just doing insane. I knew Odyssey was going to do well right. The day before release comes out we're recording this week's podcast and we're seeing all these perfect scores and all this. Okay Odyssey is going to blow up clearly these are the kind of sales numbers Zelda probably would have did if it released at this time if this number of switches were out. Man 1.1 million over that 600,000 units of the Switch selling in the United States. Fastest selling Super Mario game beating out Super Mario Wii beating out all the Mario games released in Europe beating out almost every single Mario game in Japan. This is just wow. Wow. You guys wanted some positivity on the channel. This is a pretty positive stuff right here. Odyssey could end up being the best selling 3D Mario game of all time. I think it's got a top 13 million I believe to become the best selling 3D Mario game. To become the best selling 2D Mario game it's got a long ways to go. I think I get like over 20 or 30. I can't remember the sales numbers for like the NES Mario game I think is really really high. I can't remember. I think it's at 40 million 50 million. So I don't think it could ever be I mean maybe it will become the best selling Mario game ever. I don't know but this is wow and Switch baby the Nintendo under project. I mean think about it they were just at what was it? This is just calling United States sales because we don't have full figures. What we do have full figures I think for Japan are a good idea on the figures but I believe the last figures were 7.67 million units sold just in the United States alone that got pushed over 8. If you throw Japan sales in there and European sales we could be looking at already 9 million units in sales before we get to the major selling month of November. Man oh man it's impossible by 2018 that we could be over 10 over 11 over 12 million units sold. It's possible it could be there. We obviously don't know what's going to happen in 2018 because we don't have a lineup of games with release dates yet known but oh man good on you Nintendo. Thank you thank you thank you. The Switch for all the criticisms I have I love the Switch. It is the perfect console at the perfect time. Yeah stay tuned because I'm thinking about working on a video about how Vita actually was the true precursor to Switch rather than Wii U. Like a lot of people are assuming although obviously I understand the Wii U sentiment that's a Nintendo system but there's actually a lot of similarities oddly enough between what the Vita was capable of doing and what the Switch is capable of doing not from a power perspective but like the idea behind the consoles and the functionality of those consoles and why it's working for Nintendo versus why Vita failed for Sony. I have an interesting take on that so we'll see if I can round that up and do a video today. Let me know down in the comments below if you'd be interested in seeing a quick comparison like that. I'm not going to go into every nitty gritty detail but I think there's an interesting comparison to be made about why Vita actually kind of did what Switch is doing but didn't do it good enough for certain reasons. 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