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As of the end of March, the Switch has now sold more than the lifetime sales of the N64, which is an impressive feat.

To understand why this is so impressive, the N64 was released back in 1996 and was discontinued in 2002. In that time it sold 32.93 million units.

By contrast, the Switch was released in March of 2017 and in two years has sold 34.74 units.

In short, the Switch beat the lifetime sales of the N64 in a third of the time, which is quite amazing really.

Obviously, the switch blew past the lifetime sales of the Wii U and GameCube pretty quickly after its launch but to overtake the N64 means we are entering into serious console gaming territory, especially of the Nintendo variety.

The next big milestone will be the lifetime sales of the SNES, which amassed 49.10 million units sold across the world.

What’s more, Nintendo as a whole had a very good financial year with its net sales increased to 1.2005 trillion yen (around $10.7 billion), up by 13.7% of the previous year. The operating profits also had a large boost to 249.7 billion yen (around $2.232 billion), up by 40.6% from the previous year.

Overall, the Switch continues to do incredibly well across the world and what with the recent news of a release in China, the future continues to look very bright indeed for the portable hybrid console.

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