The hybrid console manages to stay in the first position for almost two years; never had such a long domain existed.
Nintendo Switch has broken a new sales record in the United States by becoming the first console to be the best-selling hardware for 22 consecutive months. According to the latest report from the NPD Group (via NintendoLife), Nintendo’s hybrid platform was the most successful in the North American market during the month of September and, with that, they have been in that condition for 22 months without interruption.
Nintendo Switch, leader since the launch of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Therefore, it exceeds the current record of Xbox 360, which managed to be the best-selling console for 21 months; from August 2011 to April 2013. The report, which has predicted that Nintendo Switch will be the best-selling console this Christmas despite the arrival of the PS5 and Xbox Series X | S, also assumes that the sales of the machine of the Joy-Con could be better at this point in the United States during 2020, but the pandemic has prevented the supply of units from responding in line with demand, much higher than expected.
Thus, since the launch of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in December 2018, the year in which that battle to be the best-selling console was fought alongside a still powerful PS4 Slim, no month has shaken the dominance of this system as the best-selling and defendant. Mat Piscatella, market analyst at NPD, points out that the Nintendo Switch “is selling at levels never before seen in the United States.”
Nintendo Switch 2020 family of consoles: standard model (hybrid) and Nintendo Switch Lite, only portable at a reduced price.
As of June 30, Nintendo Switch had sold 61.44 million units worldwide. The forecasts are so positive that the Japanese company is expected to set a new record for annual sales and units shipped, thus exceeding the forecast of the Japanese company itself at the beginning of the fiscal year.
If this trend continues, the console should be around 70 million units at the end of this year, at the end of March 2021. At the beginning of November, we will know Nintendo’s fiscal results for the period from August to October.
