Cool! Nintendo Switch Sales Successfully Exceed Wii Sales In The US

JAKARTA - Sales of Nintendo Switch hybrid handheld devices have finally surpassed Wii's sales on the United States (US) market during July 2023.

Tidak hanya itu, data terbaru yang dibagikan oleh Circana milik Games Industry Biz juga menyebutkan bahwa penjualan seumur hidup Switch juga mengejar penjualan konsek popular di generasi sebelumnya, seperti Xbox 360 yang kurang dari satu juta unit, dan PlayStation 2 kurang dari lima juta unit.

Pursuing Nintendo Wii's sales is not easy. Given that Wii is one of the most successful consoles of all time, which has sold more than 100 million units worldwide.

CiRCana also noted that the strong development and growth of Switch performance in 2023 was assisted by the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on the platform.

On the other hand, sales of new hardware products contributed USD 7 billion (IDR 106 trillion) of total video game spending worth USD 57 billion in the US market over the past 12 months, could mean 19 percent higher than the same period last year.

In comparison, PlayStation 5 is now in a 5 percent trend above PlayStation 4 and 87 percent outperforms PlayStation 3 in terms of unit sales on time.

Meanwhile in the Xbox hardware market, Xbox Series sales were behind Xbox One sales by 10 percent, but outperformed Xbox 360 by 6 percent.