Nintendo Switch Now The Fastest-Selling Console in History to Reach 100 Million Mark and Nintendo’s Best-Selling Home Console Ever

The Nintendo Switch is now officially the fastest-selling console in history to attain the 100 one thousand thousand units marker, beating Sony's PS4.

Nintendo today published its latest earnings results, and despite not being able to meet demand due to shortages, it managed to sell 10.67m Switch units over the vacation menses, thereby bringing total global Switch sales to 103.54 million units sold since the platform's launch back in 2017.

With the Switch now passing the 100 million units sold mark as of Dec 31, 2021, Nintendo'southward platform has become the visitor's acknowledged home panel to date, and also the fastest-selling home console in video game history. Prior to this impressive feat, Sony's PS4 was the fastest-selling console to achieve the 100 meg mark, equally revealed back in July of 2019. Sony launched its PS4 back in November of 2013.

Now that the Switch has beaten both the original PlayStation (more 102.4 million
as of March 31, 2012) and the Nintendo Wii (101.63 meg lifetime), next on track is the PlayStation four, which has currently sold more than 116.nine million units globally. For reference – Nintendo managed to sell merely 13.56 million units of the Switch predecessor, the Wii U.

As reported late last year, Nintendo is also suffering from shortages and Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa has warned that his company won't be able to meet demand in the coming months. Dorsum in Nov of last year, Nintendo already lowered its Switch sales forecast by ane.5 million following flake shortages.

"For Nintendo Switch hardware, we reduced our forecast past 1.50 meg units to 24.00 million units", the visitor said. "Our shipment forecast for the second one-half was reduced because of the change in our production plan due to the effects of the global semiconductor shortages. On the other hand, we revised the Nintendo Switch software forecast upwardly by 10.00 million units to 200.00 million units based on the sales performance of the first half."