Game News Nintendo Switch: the console’s staggering figures, a top 5 bestsellers revealed for the occasion
How far the Nintendo Switch has come! Wherever it goes, it generates phenomenal success and the numbers prove it. Almost every month, new data comes to us, each time reinforcing the idea that Big N’s hybrid console is highly popular. Moreover, in Japan, it has just reached a new level!
Japan, a fifth of sales!
Last month, thanks to the analyzes of journalist Oscar Lemaire, we took stock of Nintendo on the fiscal year that has just ended, but also on the nintendo-switch who was celebrating his fifth birthday shortly before. There were observed mind-blowing figures for a console barely five years old, despite a slight drop due to component shortages. Admittedly, Nintendo had to revise its forecasts, but that does not mean that the console does not continue to sell like hotcakes, especially in the land of the Rising Sun where the company’s latest machine has no stop screwing up.
Further proof of this success, we have just learned that the hybrid console has sold more than 25 million copies in these countries. If we stick to the total sales forecast, which is around 128.65 million, that would mean that nearly one in five machines was sold on Japanese territory. If we break down the 25 million, we count almost 18.5 million Switch (18,379,851), just over 4.5 million Switch Lite (4,754,257) and, finally, almost 2 million OLED Switches (1,876,296).
Animal Crossing very largely in the lead, the others neck and neck
Of course, the nintendo-switch wouldn’t have gotten to where she is without her handful of games” system sellers “. In this regard, Famitsu magazine not only praised the astronomical sales of the hybrid console in Japanese territory since a top 5 of the best sales was also quoted in the pages of the periodical. It won’t surprise anyone, but the monstrous success of Animal Crossing: New Horizons earned him the merit of wearing the crown with 7.26 million copies sold in Japan alone.
Famitsu reports today that the Nintendo Switch has surpassed 25 million sold units in Japan
Best selling games
– Animal Crossing NH (7.26m)
– Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (4.89m)
– Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (4.66m)
– Sword/Shield (4.34m)
– Splatoon 2 (4.08m)https://t.co/EIEnANozQK pic.twitter.com/UN7UqRTW26—Nibel (@Nibellion) June 16, 2022
His four friends have not been unworthy, however, since they have all sold at least more than four million copies. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe take second and third place respectively with 4.89 million and 4.66 million copies. However, the second best-selling installment of the Pokémon franchise, namely Sword and Shieldclose behind them with 4.34 million. Finally, on the last step, we find Splatoon 2 with 4.08 million : a great success Splatoon 3expected at the start of the school year, will have to try to equal or, better still, exceed!
