Luigi's Mansion 3 is Nintendo Switch's biggest launch this year

Mario's little brother has gone and grabbed the biggest Nintendo Switch launch of 2019 - bigger than Super Mario Maker 2 and Zelda: Link's Awakening.

Luigi's Mansion 3 arrived second in the chart this week behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but is unmistakably a success for Nintendo.

Launch week physical sales are more than double those of 3DS predecessor Luigi's Mansion 2 - and that's not counting Nintendo's now healthy split of digital sales detailed by the company to investors last week.

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