Putting Nintendo Switch’s 10 million sales in context
by Kyle Orland from Ars Technica - All content on (#3AGHF)
If you've been following video game news at all this year, you're probably tired of hearing stories about how the Switch is the hottest selling console since the Sliced Bread 64. With Nintendo announcing this morning that its console has sold 10 million units in under nine months-before its first holiday season is even complete, to boot-we thought we'd skip the wordy analysis and just give you some relevant numbers that put the Switch's current sales in context. As far as recent consoles go, the Switch's sales so far put it in some pretty rarified company.
(Note that for most of these comparisons with other consoles, the time period includes an entire holiday season following a mid-November launch).
- 2.74 million: Nintendo Switch units sold in its first month on store shelves (March 2017)
- 3.91 million: Worldwide shipments for the Wii U approximately 10.5 months after launch.
- 5.63 million: Worldwide shipments for the PS3 in approximately 10.5 months of availability.
- 5.9 million: Worldwide shipments for the Xbox 360 in approximately 10.5 months of availability.
- 7 million: Approximate worldwide sales for the Xbox One in its first 10.5 months of availability.
- 8 million: Nintendo's reported initial plans for Switch production for its first full fiscal year (April 2017 through March 2018)
- 8.83 million: Worldwide shipments for the Nintendo DS in approximately 10.5 months of availability.
- 10 million: Worldwide Switch sales in just under 9 months, reported today.
- 10 million: Reported lifetime sales for the TurboGrafx-16.
- 10 million: Nintendo's expectation for Switch shipments in the entire April to May fiscal year, as announced in April (about 7.75 million sales have come in that time period so far).
- 13.17 million: Worldwide shipments of the Wii in approximately 10.5 months of availability.
- 13.5 million: Worldwide sales of the PS4 in approximately 10.5 months of availability.
- 13.56 million: Total sales of the Wii U in its four-year lifespan.
- 16.7 million: Number of Switch consoles Nintendo expects to sell worldwide by the end of March, as of October.
- 14.95 million: Worldwide shipments for the PS2 approximately 8 months after its North American release (includes about 3.52 million sales from six prior months of Japanese release)
- 25 to 30 million: Reported production plans for the Nintendo Switch's next fiscal year (April 2018 through March 2019).
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