Nintendo has sold 10 million Switch consoles in nine months
The Switch continues to rack up strong sales, with Nintendo announcing today that the console has sold more than 10 million units globally in nine months. This is up from sales of 7.63 million at the end of September.
The $300 Switch was released this spring, and Nintendo predicts that it will sell some 14 million units by the end of the fiscal year in March 2018. This estimate was raised from 10 million units in October, and would put the Switch on a path to beat the lifetime sales of the company’s previous console — the Wii U — in less than 12 months. (The Wii U sold 13.6 million units over five years.)
The Switch still has a long way to go, though, if it wants to challenge Nintendo’s best-selling home console, the Wii; which sold...