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As recently as 2020, the company slammed the Big House Online tournament, one of the scene's largest and longest-running competitions, with a cease-and-desist order for using the Slippi emulator to allow for remote play of Melee during the pandemic. It's a shocking announcement given Nintendo's long history of ignoring or outright undermining the Super Smash Bros. Additional information for the tournament, including the official ruleset and prize pool, will be revealed at a later date. players are eligible to enter as the two companies try to determine whether or not to allow international travel for the tournament. Although it includes all of North America, as of now, only U.S. Players from the region will compete in online qualifying rounds before the in-person events take place. Nintendo and Panda's competition will support the two biggest games in the series' competitive landscape, Melee and Ultimate, for North American players.
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The announcement came via a Twitter press release on Thursday, with the unnamed tournament series planned for 2022 complete with cash prizes. Ultimate, Nintendo reversed course and is now partnering with esports organization Panda Global to host the first officially licensed competitive circuit in the game's history. competitive scene, from Super Smash Bros. 972,365 games were sold last week, generating over £35 million.After years of railing against the Super Smash Bros. Outside of Mario Kart 8: Deluxe, all games in the Top Ten dropped in sales week-on-week, as the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales period fully ends. Last week's new release, Darksiders III, has disappeared from the charts altogether. One other new launch this week was PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on PS4, which propels the action game back into the charts at No.22 (sales up 321 per cent).
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The PS4 version of Just Cause 4 accounted for 55 per cent of the sales, with the rest coming on Xbox One. It's the slowest selling Just Cause game released so far, although if digital sales were included, it may have outsold the 2006 original. The Square Enix title debuts two spaces below where Just Cause 3 landed three years ago, and sales are down 61.5 per cent compared to the launch sales of that game. The other big new release this week is Just Cause 4. Red Dead Redemption 2 holds firm at No.2 for a second consecutive week. The arrival of Smash Bros means that FIFA 19 loses its No.1 spot, and actually falls two spaces to No.3. Over Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the launch of Smash Bros, around 200,000 Switch consoles have been sold in the UK - retailers have told us. There was a Switch hardware promotion this week featuring Mario Kart 8: Deluxe, which boosted sales of that game 45 per cent week-on-week. It's worth noting that the sales only include physical numbers, so digital downloads of Ultimate have not been counted. All of which means Ultimate is the fastest-selling Smash Bros game in the franchise's UK history. Launch sales are also 62.5 per cent higher than the Wii game Super Smash Bros Brawl. The game's launch sales are 302 per cent higher than the numbers achieved by Super Smash Bros for Wii U and they're 233 per cent higher than Super Smash Bros for 3DS. It is the fastest-selling Nintendo Switch game released so far, eclipsing the combined launch sales of Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu and Pokémon: Let's Go Eevee. Super Smash Bros Ultimate breaks franchise records to become this week's No.1 UK boxed game.