It’s Been a Fruitful Week For The Former Plumber
Nintendo’s newest entry in their flagship franchise, Super Mario Odyssey, has been selling like crazy. Just how crazy? Around 1.1 million copies in under a week, which puts the game firmly in the lead as the fastest selling Mario game ever. Good work, Nintendo!
This news shouldn’t come as a huge surprise for anyone following Mario’s exploits as of late. Odyssey has gathered a plethora of perfect scores on Metacritic, currently sitting at around 97% on the review site. Our own review was one of those perfect scores, calling the game a masterpiece. And rightly so! A Switch owner who passes this one up is only doing themselves a disservice. 1.1 million sales almost feels a little low after playing this game.
Combine this data with the Nintendo Switch’s 2.6 million sales so far and it looks like this holiday season is going to be a pretty good one for the Japanese gaming giant. Assuming the company can get their stock-related act together for Black Friday, they should be rolling into the Christmas shopping season with a well-earned swagger in their step. Super Mario Odyssey was released for the Nintendo Switch on October 27th, 2017.