Pikmin 3 Deluxe sales grow to series' best in Japan

Pikmin 3 Deluxe has finally become the series' best-selling game in Japan, in terms of physical copies sold.

Nintendo's garden strategy threequel has now shifted 513k boxed copies, enough to beat the original GameCube Pikmin's lifetime sales. It has also more than doubled Pikmin 3's original sales total from back when it first launched on Wii U.

That's according to Japanese sales data from Famitsu (thanks, Gematsu) which does not count eShop downloads.

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