One of the most underrated Wii U games, Xenoblade Chronicles X, has finally been given a new lease of life on Nintendo Switch, and the sci-fi JRPG has had a phenomenal debut month after dethroning Mario Kart 8 Deluxe as the console's best seller for March in the United States.
Xenoblade Chronicles X, despite being an absolute gem, had become somewhat forgotten in comparison to the main Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy. For over nine years, it was stuck on a console that sold notoriously poorly, with no other way to play it. This changed with Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, which truly lives up to its name as the best way to play the JRPG, and more importantly makes the game accessible on Switch, introducing it to a massive new audience.
Circana's data accounts for physical sales, as well as digital ones "from digital data sharing publishers," although most of the titles on here – those aforementioned three included – don't include digital sales. It's also worth noting that Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition was released on March 19, so it fought its way to the top spot in little over two weeks.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe may not always be at number one in these charts, but it's the undisputed king of Switch games as the console's best-selling title by an enormous distance. According to Nintendo's own data, by the end of last year, the racing game had racked up 67.35 million sales – almost 20 million more than the runner up, Animal Crossing: New Horizons (which had sold a very respectable 47.44 million copies at the time).
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