Game console Nintendo switch set an absolute record for March sales in the United States in the entire history of the US market. This was reported today by the rating agency NPD.
The previous sales record in March also belonged to Nintendo Switch – on its starting month in 2017, it sold over 906,000 consoles.
In March 2023, Switch exceeded this bar.. Exact sales are not called, but they are more than two times higher than last year for the same reporting period, said NPD spokesman Matt Piscatella.
If you do not take into account the starting month of Switch, then the record holder for sales in March has remained Nintendo wii. In 2007, she found 721,000 customers this month.
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The huge demand for Nintendo Switch is due to several factors, the main one of which is the launch of the long-awaited life simulator Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
- The launch of this game in the USA became one of the largest in the history of Nintendo, losing only to the starting indicators Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2.7 million) and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (3.6 million copies). The latest “Smash” holds the title of the fastest selling exclusive in the US among all platforms in general – fighting game smog beat the record Halo 3 (3.3 million), established back in 2007.
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons has raised the series to an unprecedented level of popularity. According to the results of two weeks, the revenue from sales of this game in the USA exceeded the revenue from sales of all other parts of the series for the entire time of their existence.. As a result, New Horizons instantly became the most successful representative of the Animal Crossing franchise.
NPD operates solely on retail sales, and in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, Animal Crossing: New Horizons expects very high digital sales. With them, she must have surpassed at least Super Smash Bros. Brawl – on the Wii, this game in the “digital” did not go.
New Horizons sold 3.3 million copies in Japanese retail as of April 12.
The premiere of the greatest hit took place on March 20. Read more Nintendo will talk about the starting sales of the game in different regions with the publication of the official financial report in early May.
Read also: Selling Hot Pies: Square Enix Unveils Starting Sales of Final Fantasy VII for PlayStation 4.
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