By Emma Boyle
Like an exceptionally under-achieving older sibling, the Wii U continues to make the Nintendo Switch look like a child prodigy – in just six months the Switch has managed to sell half the number of consoles the Wii U did in its five year lifetime.
According to Reuters, the Switch has at this point sold just under 8 million units and the company is now forecasting one year sales of 14 million rather than its original 10 million.
For context, it took the Wii U five years to sell 13.56 million consoles. Managing to beat five years of sales in just one is a fairly good indication that Nintendo has created a hit with the Switch, or at the very least underlines just how much of a failure the Wii U was.
Switch success
Nintendo has recorded revenue of 219.9 billion Japanese yen ($1.9 billion) for the quarter, which is significantly more than the 174 billion yen expected.
In terms of software, in the past six months alone Nintendo has managed to sell more than 22 million Switch games, bringing the total number to over 27 million.
These numbers don’t even take the recently launched Super Mario Odyssey into …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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