Nintendo has high expectations for the Switch this holiday season, predicting sales totals that some viewed as overly ambitious . The company wants the system to hit 20 million units sold this fiscal year, and it helped get closer to that number with a huge Thanksgiving weekend.

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Over the five-day period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday this year, the Nintendo Switch "In fact, according to Adobe Analytics, Nintendo Switch was among the most-purchased items online on Thanksgiving Day and the overall top-selling video game product online for the Black Friday-Cyber Monday time period," Nintendo said in a press release In the United States thus far, the Switch has sold more than 8 million units, and its exclusive games continue to sell well. The combined sales of Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let's Go, Eevee! topped 1.5 million units in the U.S. in less than two weeks, and Super Mario Party has also topped 1 million units.Those numbers will likely pale in comparison to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which is already the best pre-selling game in the series and on the Switch. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate launches as a Switch exclusive on December 7, and we've also heard rumors that The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword could be coming to the system soon.Back in October, the Switch passed 22 million consoles sold worldwide. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild also managed to hit 10 million total sales at the same time.

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