Nintendo passes the milestone of 100 million Switches sold

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With 103.5 million Switches sold worldwide at the end of 2021, Nintendo has just passed a symbolic milestone for its hybrid console. The Kyoto firm reported a record last quarter of 2021 during a report announced this Thursday, February 3.

Just for the period from October to December last, Nintendo sold 10.6 million Switches across the planet. The manufacturer specifies that the distribution is as follows: 81.6 million for the classic model launched in March 2017, 17.8 million for the Switch Lite and 4 million for the recent Switch OLED launched last October. In view of these sales, the Switch can now boast of having exceeded the success of the Wii, which sold more than 101.6 million copies, and the PlayStation (102.4 million) in the same period of time. .

Nintendo tells its investors that the console has sold 40 million copies in the Americas alone, 26.9 million in Europe and 24.3 million in Japan. In mid-January Nintendo France announced that it had passed the milestone of 6.1 million units sold in France.

A top 10 of the best-selling games

Journalist Oscar Lemaire, a specialist in video game economics, also announced the top 10 best-selling games on the console. The Japanese company also specifies that it has sold more than 766.41 million Switch games.

However, if the figures announced by Nintendo are generally encouraging for the future of the Switch, sales fell by 13% in 2021 for the console.

Nevertheless, the company is optimistic and has revised upwards its forecast for its fiscal year which will end at the end of March. It is counting on a turnover of 12.74 billion euros, as well as an operating profit of 4.32 billion euros and a net profit of 3.09 billion euros.





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