Nintendo sold 735,000 Switches last month

Nintendo Switch gross sales aren’t slowing down. The Japanese firm sold greater than 735,000 Switch and Switch Lite models within the US in October, it revealed on Thursday, as beforehand reported by Nintendo Life. The hybrid console already beat the NES’ lifetime gross sales earlier this 12 months.

The Switch’s October 2020 gross sales are the “second-highest October sales of any video game console in history” within the US. The Wii stays on prime, with gross sales of 800,000 models in October 2008.

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“Seeing encouraging sales growth like this in the fourth October of Nintendo Switch proves to us that the system has many more years and great games yet to come,”  Nintendo of America boss Doug Bowser stated in an announcement accompanying the gross sales figures.

In whole, the Switch has sold 68.30 million models, making it Nintendo’s second most profitable console. The Wii nonetheless holds the crown, with 101.63 million models sold.

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