14 DAY TRIAL // Nintendo's Switch is undoubtedly one of the best-selling gaming consoles this year and the Japanese company has the number to prove it. In a statement released earlier today, Nintendo announced that the Switch family of consoles has just hit a major sales milestone in Europe.
Following the recent launch of Nintendo Switch Lite alongside the flagship Nintendo Switch console, the company confirmed that more than 10 million consoles in the Nintendo Switch family have been sold across Europe.
Across the continent as a whole, Nintendo Switch hardware sales continue to grow each year. Hardware sales in 2019 are almost 30% higher year-on-year, and more than 40% higher than this time in 2017.
The strong lineup of games playable on the Nintendo Switch family is one of the reasons that the console achieved incredible results sales-wise. Evergreen classics like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, as well as this year’s releases including Super Mario Maker 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening boosted Nintendo Switch sales more than in previous years.
Nintendo also revealed that since the launch of Nintendo Switch in March 2017, Switch players in Europe have bought more than 36 million Nintendo-published titles, with a total of nine Nintendo-published games exceeding the one-million sales mark in Europe: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Party, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, and 1-2-Switch.
Certainly, it's not just Nintendo-published titles achieving high sales, with multiple titles from third-party publishers including Minecraft, Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and Stardew Valley all selling more than half a million copies each across Europe.
And there are still a couple of nice surprises left for Nintendo Switch owners for the rest of the year, including Luigi’s Mansion 3, Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, and Ring Fit Adventure.