If you have a Nintendo Switch, you probably own "Super Mario Odyssey." That's not just hyperbole — that's mathematically true.
With 9.07 million copies of "Super Mario Odyssey" sold as of December 31, 2018 (just two months!), and 14.86 million Switch consoles in the wild, 61% of Switch owners have "Odyssey."
That's mighty impressive. Nintendo has seemingly conquered the "chicken and egg" problem of launching a new game console.
Since the Switch has only been available for about 10 months, only so many people have bought it thus far — the PlayStation 4 has been around since 2013, and there are over 70 million in the wild. If a small percentage of PlayStation 4 owners buy a game, it's still a lot of sales. If a small percentage of Switch owners buy a game, it isn't.
Nintendo, somehow, has managed to push past that issue by convincing a huge percentage of Switch owners to buy its games. Of the seven games that sold over one million copies, three games sold over six million copies each.