wraggster
September 4th, 2018, 20:25
Just shows that Nintendo are back on form with the Nintendo Switch:
By the end of this week, Nintendo Switch is expected to have reach five million sales in its home market since it launched last year.
Nintendo Life (http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/09/switch_has_been_the_best-selling_console_in_japan_for_six_months_almost_5_m illion_units_sold) reports that the latest sales figure for the Japanese games market, as published by Famitsu (https://www.famitsu.com/news/201809/03163387.html), show the console-handheld hybrid has now shifted 4.966 million units to date and with its current pace of sales, that five million milestone should only take a few days to achieve.
It brings Switch's lifetime sales closer to that of PlayStation 4, which currently stands at 6.979 million units - just two million units ahead. It's a fine achievement for the Nintendo device given that Sony's console has been on the market three years longer, although it has a long way to go if it wants to beat PS4's global sales of more than 82.2 million units (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-07-31-playstation-drives-usd17-9-billion-q1-for-sony).
The updated lifetime sales followed Famistu's report for August, which was the sixth month in a row that Nintendo Switch has been Japan's biggest-selling console. The device sold 199,000 over the course of the month, compared to PlayStation 4's 86,000.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-09-04-nintendo-switch-nears-5m-sales-in-japan
By the end of this week, Nintendo Switch is expected to have reach five million sales in its home market since it launched last year.
Nintendo Life (http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/09/switch_has_been_the_best-selling_console_in_japan_for_six_months_almost_5_m illion_units_sold) reports that the latest sales figure for the Japanese games market, as published by Famitsu (https://www.famitsu.com/news/201809/03163387.html), show the console-handheld hybrid has now shifted 4.966 million units to date and with its current pace of sales, that five million milestone should only take a few days to achieve.
It brings Switch's lifetime sales closer to that of PlayStation 4, which currently stands at 6.979 million units - just two million units ahead. It's a fine achievement for the Nintendo device given that Sony's console has been on the market three years longer, although it has a long way to go if it wants to beat PS4's global sales of more than 82.2 million units (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-07-31-playstation-drives-usd17-9-billion-q1-for-sony).
The updated lifetime sales followed Famistu's report for August, which was the sixth month in a row that Nintendo Switch has been Japan's biggest-selling console. The device sold 199,000 over the course of the month, compared to PlayStation 4's 86,000.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-09-04-nintendo-switch-nears-5m-sales-in-japan