Well, not really. It's the plug'n'play SNES Classic; and it's more of a technicality that it's a gaming console.
Still, as far as consoles go, the highest days were DS around Black Friday 2006 to 2008 where around 1M sold, and the PS4 launch which sold 1.07M, and this 1.7M is significantly ahead of that... A 26 year old console.
http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo- ... mber-30th/
Their Japanese launch the next week sold and additional 368,000 units to exceed 2M units total by early October.
Nintendo also released their quarterly results, and things are looking good.
The Switch, which launched back in March, has sold 7.63 million units. With the holiday season still to go, it'll almost certainly exceed Wii U's lifetime sales of 14M in under a year. Speaking of sales, the Wii remains the current year 1 record holder of all (home and handheld) video game consoles at Wii - 14,519,705 sales in its first year. I think Switch will almost certainly surpass it; especially with the recent launch of Super Mario Odyssey.
Nintendo also reported some impressive first party games as of September 30th (again, a few months into the console's life, and prior to the first holiday season):
Zelda Breath of the Wild: 4.90M
Mario Kart 8 DX:4.72M
Splatoon 2: 3.24M
ARMS: 1.58M
1-2 Switch: 1.55M
Nintendo's stocks shot up nearly 7%, and the market cap has hit 53.5 billion USD - stock value is about 500% higher than it was a couple of years ago. Would have been good to get in on that one.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ntdoy
Still, as far as consoles go, the highest days were DS around Black Friday 2006 to 2008 where around 1M sold, and the PS4 launch which sold 1.07M, and this 1.7M is significantly ahead of that... A 26 year old console.
http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo- ... mber-30th/
Their Japanese launch the next week sold and additional 368,000 units to exceed 2M units total by early October.
Nintendo also released their quarterly results, and things are looking good.
The Switch, which launched back in March, has sold 7.63 million units. With the holiday season still to go, it'll almost certainly exceed Wii U's lifetime sales of 14M in under a year. Speaking of sales, the Wii remains the current year 1 record holder of all (home and handheld) video game consoles at Wii - 14,519,705 sales in its first year. I think Switch will almost certainly surpass it; especially with the recent launch of Super Mario Odyssey.
Nintendo also reported some impressive first party games as of September 30th (again, a few months into the console's life, and prior to the first holiday season):
Zelda Breath of the Wild: 4.90M
Mario Kart 8 DX:4.72M
Splatoon 2: 3.24M
ARMS: 1.58M
1-2 Switch: 1.55M
Nintendo's stocks shot up nearly 7%, and the market cap has hit 53.5 billion USD - stock value is about 500% higher than it was a couple of years ago. Would have been good to get in on that one.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ntdoy
