Nintendo Switch Still Matching PS4 With 10 Million Sold in 9 Months

Nintendo's latest is keeping pace.

News by Mike Williams, Reviews Editor

Updated on 12 December 2017

Nintendo announced this morning that the Nintendo Switch is continuing its great first year of sales as we wrap up the holiday season. The Switch has apparently sold 10 million systems in the nine months since launch.

Thanks to you, #NintendoSwitch has sold 10 million units worldwide in 9 months! Here’s to an amazing 2018! pic.twitter.com/wTuojUxE5h
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) December 12, 2017

This puts the Switch on pace to potentially best the Wii U's lifetime sales, 13.56 million, within its first year. It's also slightly ahead of the the Wii, which sold around 9.27 million units from its October 2011 launch until June 30, 2007. It ultimately went on to sell 101.63 million systems worldwide.

The sales pace is roughly even with the PlayStation 4, which sold 10 million systems worldwide from its November 2013 launch until August 10, 2014. At the time, Sony called that the "fastest and strongest growth in PlayStation hardware history". The PS4 is still nearly matching the PlayStation 2's sales pace, a system that went on to sell over 155 million worldwide.

That puts the Switch in very good company.

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Mike Williams

Reviews Editor

M.H. Williams is new to the journalism game, but he's been a gamer since the NES first graced American shores. Third-person action-adventure games are his personal poison: Uncharted, Infamous, and Assassin's Creed just to name a few. If you see him around a convention, he's not hard to spot: Black guy, glasses, and a tie.

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