Japanese video game maker Nintendo has today published its sales data for the fourth quarter of 2021. The data shows that the company sold a total of 103.54 million units of the Switch game console which is knocks of the Wii console as the best-selling console ever. For com[arison, the brand sold a total of 101.63 million units of the Wii console before it was discontinued in 2013.
Nintendo first launched the Switch gaming console in March 2013. Thus, it took just five years for the console to achieve this enormous feat of becoming Nintendo’s best-selling console. Apart from the Wii, the Switch also surpassed the original Playstation which had a total sales of 102.5 million. jumped to fifth place in the history of game console sales.
Sales of the Switch slumped in the fourth quarter of 2021, though, with the company only able to ship 10.67 million units, a year-on-year decrease of nearly 8%. However, when compared with the latest PlayStation 5 which recorded just 3.9 million units, the Switch is still quite popular for a gadget that has been on sale for 5 years.
However, Nintendo did lower its forecast for the Switch’s shipments this fiscal year by a further 1 million units. It now expects shipments of 23 million, down from the 24 million it forecast in November.
Just as the console is popular, the Switch games are equally popular with figures reaching 760 million copies. The iconic Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition alone saw a cumulative sales of 43.35 million copies, making it the best-selling game from the brand.
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