It’s time to tackle everyone’s favorite hot topic: sales reports! Specifically in Japan, where the sales chart was dominated by Nintendo Switch Sports, selling over 190,000 copies in its debut. Although this is down nearly 50% from Wii Sports Resort’s first week sales (354,000), it’s still a solid performance that we can expect to see good results. do in the future.
Japan Famitsu – “Nintendo Switch Sports” took first place with 190,000 units sold, just below the 354,000 first week sales of “Wii Sports Resort”, released in June 2009. Switch in 5 years sold 24, 6 million and exceeds 3DS which took 10 years to reach the same number, DS 32.86 m
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What’s more, the Switch surpassed the 3DS’ lifetime sales of 24.6 million in the region, earning the honor in just five years while it took the 3DS an entire decade. The Switch overtook the 3DS globally a while back (it’s at over 103 million while the 3DS family topped out at around 76 million), but it still has some way to go to surpass the original DS on both fronts (32.86 million nationally, 154 million worldwide). It’ll take some effort to do it, but the Switch was a major hit early on, so anything is possible.
That’s it for this bold and brave sales report. It’s a thankless task, but important… for someone, I suppose.
