{"id":72003,"date":"2019-10-18T03:11:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/nintendo-switch-hits-another-sales-milestone\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T03:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:11:12","slug":"nintendo-switch-hits-another-sales-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/nintendo-switch-hits-another-sales-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch hits another sales milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo\u2019s <\/span><\/a> North American Switch unit sales have already surpassed the lifetime worldwide unit sales of the Wii U.<\/p>\n

The company announced Thursday that they had sold 15 million units of the popular handheld console in North America, further noting that the Switch had been the most popular console in the U.S. for 10 months in a row, according to the NPD Group.<\/p>\n

This number brings NA-specific sales well past the 13.56 million units sold<\/a> of the company\u2019s previous-generation console, the Wii U.<\/p>\n

While the Switch lags far behind the PS4 and Xbox One in lifetime sales, it\u2019s important to realize how old those other systems are \u2014 hardware refreshes aside. The Xbox One and PS4 were released in 2013 and the Switch was introduced in 2017.<\/p>\n

The Switch is likely still early in its life cycle \u2014 the company just released the $199 Switch Lite, which cuts down on some functionality and focuses wholly on portable gameplay.<\/p>\n

A common refrain has been that there are too few titles available on the Switch, while I still think that\u2019s definitely true, Nintendo announced that 14 titles had sold more than 1 million copies, with four of its own games (Mario Kart 8 Deluxe,\u00a0The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,\u00a0Super Mario Odyssey\u00a0and\u00a0Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) selling more than 6 million copies.<\/p>\n

As of June 30, 2019, Nintendo has sold nearly 38 million Switch consoles worldwide.<\/p>\n

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Nintendo\u2019s North American Switch unit sales have already surpassed the lifetime worldwide unit sales of the Wii U. The company announced Thursday that they had sold 15 million units of the popular handheld console in North America, further noting that the Switch had been the most popular console in the U.S. for 10 months in… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t