THREAD – Led by Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, tracked Dec sales reached $3.4B, +2% vs YA. Nintendo Switch finishes as the year’s top HW platform, while Red Dead Redemption 2 is the best-selling game of the year. Here are all the U.S. market highlights from The NPD Group! pic.twitter.com/XxSQfF4Cz9
— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) January 22, 2019
With 2018 coming to an end, new information has been released by The NPD Group, revealing that Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in the U.S. for 2018. Within the past year, Nintendo Switch generated the highest December month hardware dollar sales for a single platform since the Nintendo Wii in December 2009, and achieved the highest December unit sales for a single platform since December 2010.
Nintendo Switch ends 2018 as the year’s best-selling hardware platform in both units and dollars. Annual unit and dollar sales of Nintendo Switch are the highest annual total for any hardware platform since the PlayStation 4 in 2015, according to Mat Piscatella from the NPD Group.
We’re happy to hear Nintendo’s success with Nintendo Switch within the last year and we look forward to the future of Nintendo games. For all things, Nintendo, stay tuned to NinMobileNews!
