The Nintendo Switch

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According to GamesIndustry.biz , SuperData used figures provided by Famitsu and GfK to come to first week sales totals for the main console regions. These estimates are for sell-through of consoles to customers, rather than just to retailers.Half a million Switch consoles were sold in the US, while 360,000 were sold in Japan. Europe "isn't far behind" - the UK had 85,000 units sold, and France had a little more with 110,000. We're now in the second week of the Switch's life, so these numbers will no doubt be bigger now.Nintendo announced last week that sales in Europe, Japan, and the Americas during the first 48 hours were the company's best ever Unsurprisingly, it appears The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is currently the driving force behind the success of the Switch. SuperData says 89 percent of those who bought a Switch have also bought the newest entry in the Zelda franchise, putting sales of the Switch version of the game in the region of 1.34 million.Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima previously said that the company planned to ship 2 million consoles to retailers by March 31 . If that remained the case, stock shortages could be ahead.If you're thinking of buying a Switch, let IGN's review help you decide. Nintendo has recently commented on the Joy-Con connectivity problems which have been reported for the past few weeks.

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