![]() ![]() "Pikmin 3 is well worth dusting off, as we wait for the series to properly end its garden leave. Pikmin 3 is the third mainline installment in the Pikmin series, released in 2013 for the Wii U. "Like its many buried riches, Nintendo's Pikmin series remains a treasure ready to be rediscovered," I wrote in Eurogamer's Pikmin 3 Deluxe review last year. While other Nintendo games have become evergreen sellers, it seems Pikmin 3 has not joined that category here. It stuck around in the UK top 40 physical games chart for only a couple of weeks after its release last year, and is nowhere to be found now even in the current Switch-specific game top 20. Seems Im close to the end in Pikmin 4.New sales figures from Famitsu show. Well enough, perhaps, that Nintendo may consider keeping the series going? Plans for a Pikmin 4 have existed for a while - but you probably know about all that.Īlas, here in the UK, it seems Pikmin 3 Deluxe fared less well. But it's still not bad for a re-release of a third game after many years of the franchise remaining dormant. Nintendo's garden strategy threequel has now shifted 513k boxed copies. Sure, half a million copies sold does not rival Mario and Zelda's numbers. Pikmin 3 Deluxe has finally become the series' best-selling game in Japan, in terms of physical copies sold. Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association. However, it is worth noting that the current sales for the game only include physical sales digital sales have yet to be counted. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Nintendo software and hardware sales data from 1983 to present, Updated as of December 2022 CESA Games White Papers. ![]() That's according to Japanese sales data from Famitsu (thanks, Gematsu) which does not count eShop downloads. Pikmin 3 Deluxe launched on the Nintendo Switch last week, and according to, the game's sales in the UK were down 18.5 when compared to the game's original launch on the Wii U. ![]() It has also more than doubled Pikmin 3's original sales total from back when it first launched on Wii U. Nintendo's garden strategy threequel has now shifted 513k boxed copies, enough to beat the original GameCube Pikmin's lifetime sales. Pikmin 3 Deluxe has finally become the series' best-selling game in Japan, in terms of physical copies sold. ![]()
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