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Since it was released in March, the Switch has been that the sales numbers for the a sales powerhouse for NinPS4 steadily declined in its tendo. This is especially true first sixteen weeks, falling to in Japan, where the Switch’s just over 8,000 in its sixteenth sales over its first sixteen week, while the Switch’s weeks are beating Sony’s weekly sales haven’t dipped PlayStation 4 sales numbers below 24,000 units. Addicompared to the same period. tionally, the PS4 took nearly In its seventeenth week, an entire year (49 weeks) to however, the innovative con-surpass the one-million mark. sole topped the one-million units sold mark, per a report siblings, the Switch falls by Eurogamer. Its most pop-somewhere in the middle: the ular title has been Mario Kart Wii U sold 820,000 units in 8 Deluxe, which has sold its first sixteen weeks, while over half a million copies. By the Wii sold 1.85 million units. comparison, in its first six-Even though the Wii U also teen weeks, the competing outsold the PS4 in its first six-Sony PS4 sold 605,551 units teen weeks in Japan, sales of in Japan.

the Wii U eventually slowed. What’s important to note is This milestone is especially impressive considering the Switch is selling out every shipment due to a shortage of production materials, making it near impossible to find. If we extrapolate the current sales rate, the Nintendo Switch is on pace to sell almost two million units before the end of Compared to its Nintendo the year in Japan - and that’s at current production levels. Should Nintendo get it together and ramp up production of its ultrahot-seller, it may only be a matter of time before the Switch can not just outpace the original Wii, but become the company’s biggest selling console ever.