{"id":550451,"date":"2026-03-21T04:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550451\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:25:17","slug":"mario-tennis-fever-takes-out-top-spot-in-february-2026-nintendo-charts-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550451\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Tennis Fever Takes Out Top Spot In February 2026 Nintendo Charts (US)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mario<\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n

It’s been quite a busy start to the year with a lot of major games releasing on not only the Switch 2, but across all platforms. Now that February is over, Circana’s Mat Piscatella has shared data for the “Top Best-Selling Platinum Games” on Nintendo platforms in the US for this same month.<\/p>\n

The new Switch 2 exclusive Mario Tennis<\/a> game took out the top spot, with Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined<\/a> and Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/a> in second and third place. Capcom’s new releases Resident Evil Requiem<\/a> and the Generation Pack<\/a> (which also includes Requiem) also featured on the charts.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind, Nintendo’s first-party titles do not factor in digital sales, and these charts do not share specific sales data for each game.<\/p>\n

\"Nintendo<\/a> Image: via Mat Piscatella \/ Circana<\/p>\n

Across all platforms, Resident Evil Requiem led the “Top 20 Best-selling Premium Games” in the US for February 2026 and debuted as the “best-selling video game of the year”. Meanwhile, Mario Tennis Fever placed 11th on these charts, and Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A dropped from 16th place to 19th place.<\/p>\n

“Resident Evil: Requiem debuted as the best-selling video game of the year. It also ranked 1st in February across the PlayStation, Xbox and the aggregated PC storefront charts.”<\/p>\n

\"Multiplatform<\/a> Image: via Mat Piscatella \/ Circana<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Capcom announced Resident Evil Requiem had already sold more than six million units<\/a> since launching on 27th February 2026.<\/p>\n

Alongside this sales update, Piscatella has shared some additional data for February, revealing Switch 2 drove 22% year-on-year spending growth, and this offset year-on year declines across other platforms including the original Switch. In saying this, PS5 once again led the market in unit and dollar sales for the month.<\/p>\n

“Hardware – PlayStation 5 again led the hardware market in both unit and dollar sales. Nintendo Switch 2 repeated its January performance ranking 2nd across both measures.<\/p>\n

“Hardware – With nine months in market, the life-to-date installed base of Nintendo Switch 2 is trending 45% ahead of the original Nintendo Switch (November 2017 was the ninth month in market for Nintendo Switch).”<\/p>\n

Did you purchase any of these new releases in the month of February? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n

[source bsky.app<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tRelated Games<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer on Nintendo Life. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo It’s been quite a busy start to the year with a lot of major games releasing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,20056,10756,1671,82,593,182],"class_list":["post-550451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-north-america","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}