According to sales website VGChartz, as of December 26, 2020, the Nintendo Switch finally sold out the 3DS and sold an estimated 76,285,948 units. The 3DS, released in 2011, has so far sold 75,906,986 units.
The “Best Selling Consoles” list of Wikipedia has not been updated at this time, but the Switch’s increased sales at the end of last year – no doubt due to Christmas purchases – would increase The 11th Top Sellers- console of all time, behind the Game Boy, the Wii and the Nintendo DS family. The Switch still has a way to go until it reaches the top five, but 102 million units have been sold.
Since the Switch sold more than any other console combined last year, we can see the rise of a worthy successor to Wii’s life sales (101.63 million). It’s also worth noting that the 3DS has been out for almost ten years, and that the Switch was able to achieve the same number of sales in just under four years – and given the predictions that we will see a Switch Pro this year, it can only go up .
If you have read it all and you are still For more sales figures, take a look at the visualization of Nintendo’s console sales over the past 20 years, or read how Animal Crossing: New Horizons was able to help the UK video game industry succeed for £ 4 billion for the first time. If it is still not enough, it can be beyond our help.
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