Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the fifth game in its franchise. It is also the first game in its series to be released for Nintendo Switch. ###Premise The series is a crossover of characters from various video game franchises, such as The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario, Metroid, and Mega Man, among many others. Their famous protagonists fight each other on an arena. In accordance with its name, the game is the “ultimate” installment of the series, in that it offers the players all the characters ever featured in Super Smash Bros. The game also introduces five new characters, most famously, Castlevania's Simon Belmont. ###Gameplay Unlike most fighting games, Super Smash Bros. series is built around knocking opponents out of the arena rather than lowering their health bars. However, the damage meter increases the character's chances to be knocked out. Each fighter has a limited number of lives and loses one when he or she is knocked out. The player is eliminated when he or she loses all lives. ###Multiplayer Super Smash Bros. Ultimate includes several competitive multiplayer modes. Besides the traditional versus mode, there are several new modes not featured in the previous games. These include Tournament (the playoff mode for 32 players), Smash Squad (team multiplayer), Smashdown (a mode in which the defeated characters are eliminated).
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Sales are officially reported by Nintendo in its investor relations disclosures, which makes this one of the better-documented figures in the catalogue: 12.08 million by January 2019, 21.10 million by September 2020, 36.24 million by 31 March 2025 and 37.76 million by 31 March 2026. That places it third among all Switch titles behind Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and ahead of Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. The launch was record-setting: 1.2 million copies in Japan in three days, over 3 million in the United States in eleven days, more than 5 million shipped worldwide in the first three days, and UK physical launch sales 302% above the Wii U entry's. The 'best-selling fighting game of all time' description is press framing built on Nintendo's own unit numbers rather than a phrase Nintendo itself used. The development budget has never been disclosed — the only official comment on cost is qualitative, that pursuing the complete legacy roster drastically increased it. Time-to-beat note: the recorded hours cover the bundled single-player content, chiefly World of Light, and say nothing about the competitive multiplayer that is the game's actual core.