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Nintendo France: Zelda was the best-selling game of 2023, record year for Mario and more...

Nintendo France's President, Philippe Lavoué, took part to the tradition January interview with French media and shared several tibdits on Nintendo's excellent year: Super Mario Bros. Movie was #1 in the French BO in 2023 with 7,3M admissions. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had a...

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Zelda et Super Mario, le duo gagnant de Nintendo France en 2023

Super Mario Wonder, Kart, Party, Deluxe... Les jeux vidéo mettant en scène la mascotte se sont écoulés à 2,7 millions d’exemplaires l’an passé. Et avec Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo France revendique la meilleure vente de l’année.

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Nintendo France's President, Philippe Lavoué, took part to the tradition January interview with French media and shared several tibdits on Nintendo's excellent year:

• Super Mario Bros. Movie was #1 in the French Box Office in 2023 with 7.3M admissions.
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had a launch many thought was impossible to have nowadays at retail (500.000 units)
• >1M units in France for Zelda with digital sales
• Wonder had the best start for a Mario game in France.
• The game managed to attract a wider audience than initially planned.
• 2.7M units of Mario games have been sold last year in France
• 855.000 Switch sold in 2023 (down from 987.000 last year)
• 8M milestone will be crossed by the Switch in 2024
• 55% of retail games sold last year were on Switch
• Zelda #1 the best-selling game (not just for switch but for all platforms)

He also shared the top 10 Switch games at retail in 2023:

1. Zelda : Tears of the Kindgom : 968.000 units NEW
2. Super Mario Bros Wonder : 747.500 units NEW
3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe : 383.500 units (total 3.452.900 units)
4. Minecraft : 230.900 units (total 1.509.200 units)
5. EA Sports FC 24 : 167.500 units NEW
6. Nintendo Switch Sports : 154.600 units (total 587.300 units)
7. Mario Party Superstars : 153.800 units (total 676.800 units)
8. Hogwarts Legacy : 153.300 units NEW
9. Animal Crossing New Horizons : 153.100 units (total 1.922.200 units)
10. New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe : 132.500 units (total 1.084.300 units)

Best selling Switch games in 2022 at retail for comparison

1. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet : 717.000 units NEW (300.500 Scarlet + 416.500 Violet)
2. Pokemon Legends Arceus : 589.400 units NEW
3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe : 451.200 units (total 3.069.400 units)
4. Nintendo Switch Sports : 432.700 units NEW
5. FIFA 23 Legacy Edition : 272.000 units NEW
6. Mario Strikers Battle League : 270.800 units NEW
7. Splatoon 3 : 257.300 units NEW
8. Animal Crossing New Horizons : 256.600 units (total 1.769.100 units)
9. Minecraft : 253.000 units (total 1.278.300 units)
10. Mario Party Superstars : 246.300 units (total 523.000 units)

Other. Kirby and the Forgotten Land : 218.500 units NEW

Calendar Year Switch sales in France

2017: 911K (total 911K)
2018: 1130K (total 2041K)
2019: 1250K (total 3291k)
2020: 1445K (total 4736K)
2021: 1231K (total 5967K)
2022: 987K (total 6954K)
2023: 855K (total 7809K)

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Zelda TotK selling ~1M physical copies just in France is insane. All digital bros BTFO.

 

[Bernoulli]

The Nintendo train

 

[mckmas8808]

So to all the people that want the whole video gaming world to go digital only..............DO YOU SEE WHY THAT'S STUPID NOW?!

 

[Mr Hyde]

Super Mario Wonder already trailing Tears at 750 k copies despite being released almost six months after.

 

[Luminoth-4545]

Nintendo Switch compared to lifetime sales of other platforms in France, the list is missing a few platforms that i couldn't find lifetime sales for.
(millions of units):

Nintendo DS - 10.60
Nintendo Switch - 7.81
Gameboy - 6.50
Nintendo Wii - 6.40
Playstation 4 - 6.07
Playstation 2 - 5.90
Nintendo 3DS - 5.75
Playstation 1 - 5.28
Playstation 3 - 5.23
Playstation Portable - 3.58
Xbox 360 - 3.37
GBA - 3.00
NES - 2.40
Xbox One - 1.80
Master System - 1.60
Gamecube - 1.50
Megadrive - 1.30
Nintendo Wii U - 0.83
Playstation Vita - 0.53
Sega Saturn - 0.30

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

France is Nintendo country. Even during Wii U it was fascinating to see how the French market outperformed the rest of Europe.

As a point of interest, I'd be fascinated to know the individual sales of Mario Kart 8, not included with the Switch every holiday in the year-end bundle at no extra cost. How many people bought MK8 on Switch for $50-$60? Millions, for sure, including me. But it would be interesting to know the real number, and not the super-inflated holiday bundle number.

 

[Luminoth-4545]

France is Nintendo country. Even during Wii U it was fascinating to see how the French market outperformed the rest of Europe.

As a point of interest, I'd be fascinated to know the individual sales of Mario Kart 8, not included with the Switch every holiday in the year-end bundle at no extra cost. How many people bought MK8 on Switch for $50-$60? Millions, for sure, including me. But it would be interesting to know the real number, and not the super-inflated holiday bundle number.

Nintendo has revealed how much software they have bundled since FY 2019/20.

FY 2019/20: 8.08 million MK8D, 3.4million bundled software
FY 2020/21: 10.62 million MK8D, 3.8 million bundled software
FY 2021/22: 9.94 million MK8D, 1.5 million bundled software
FY 2022/23: 8.46 million MK8D, 1.25 million bundled software
FY 2023/24 Q1+Q2: 3.22 million MK8D, 0.21 million bundled software

The bundled software figure includes all bundled software combined and not just MK8 Deluxe. Nintendo has reduced the number of bundled software in the last 2 years yet MK8 Deluxe sales haven't taken much of a hit which suggest the bundles don't contribute that much to the total sales, my guess would be 1 million per year. Last FY even if every bundle was MK8D then it would only make up 1.25 million which is just a fraction of it's sales Last FY.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Nintendo has revealed how much software they have bundled since FY 2019/20.

FY 2019/20: 8.08 million MK8D, 3.4million bundled software
FY 2020/21: 10.62 million MK8D, 3.8 million bundled software
FY 2021/22: 9.94 million MK8D, 1.5 million bundled software
FY 2022/23: 8.46 million MK8D, 1.25 million bundled software
FY 2023/24 Q1+Q2: 3.22 million MK8D, 0.21 million bundled software

The bundled software figure includes all bundled software combined and not just MK8 Deluxe. Nintendo has reduced the number of bundled software in the last 2 years yet MK8 Deluxe sales haven't taken much of a hit which suggest the bundles don't contribute that much to the total sales, my guess would be 1 million per year. Last FY even if every bundle was MK8D then it would only make up 1.25 million which is just a fraction of it's sales Last FYI

Yeah, so they've bundled MK8D like every single holiday season for 6 years, so it is definitely a signifcant number. Not to mention it's never increased the MSRP of the bundle over the base price of the Switch consoles without a pack-in. And since holiday year-end sales account for such a large portion of Nintendo's annual sales, MK8D-specific sales not including any hardware bundles would surely be quite significant.