Nintendo Switch surpasses 1m in sales

since it was released in march, the switch has been a sales powerhouse for Nintendo. this is especially true in Japan, where the switch’s sales over its first sixteen weeks are beating sony’s playstation 4 sales numbers compared to the same period. In its seventeenth week, however, the innovative console topped the one-million units sold mark, per a report by eurogamer. Its most popular title has been mario kart 8 Deluxe, which has sold over half a million copies. by comparison, in its first sixteen weeks, the competing sony ps4 sold 605,551 units in Japan.since it was released in march, the switch has been a sales powerhouse for Nintendo. this is especially true in Japan, where the switch’s sales over its first sixteen weeks are beating sony’s playstation 4 sales numbers compared to the same period. In its seventeenth week, however, the innovative console topped the one-million units sold mark, per a report by eurogamer. Its most popular title has been mario kart 8 Deluxe, which has sold over half a million copies. by comparison, in its first sixteen weeks, the competing sony ps4 sold 605,551 units in Japan.

What’s important to note is that the sales numbers for the ps4 steadily declined in its first sixteen weeks, falling to just over 8,000 in its sixteenth week, while the switch’s weekly sales haven’t dipped below 24,000 units. additionally, the ps4 took nearly an entire year (49 weeks) to surpass the one-million mark.

compared to its Nintendo siblings, the switch falls somewhere in the middle: the Wii U sold 820,000 units in its first sixteen weeks, while the Wii sold 1.85 million units. even though the Wii U also outsold the PS4 in its first sixteen weeks in Japan, sales of the Wii U eventually slowed.

this milestone is especially impressive considering the switch is selling out every shipment due to a shortage of production materials, making it near impossible to find. If we extrapolate the current sales rate, the Nintendo switch is on pace to sell almost two million units before the end of the year in Japan – and that’s at current production levels. should Nintendo get it together and ramp up production of its ultrahot-seller, it may only be a matter of time before the switch can not just outpace the original Wii, but become the company’s biggest selling console ever.