Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in the United States for the 23rd month in a row, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. This helped push total hardware sales up despite the drooping performance of what are now the last-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony. But Switch isn’t just performing well compared to the outgoing PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It’s on a near-record sales pace.
“Year-to-date dollar sales of Nintendo Switch hardware are the second highest of any platform in U.S. history,” NPD analyst Mat Piscatella said. “[It’s] trailing only the 2008 year-to-date dollar sales of Nintendo Wii.”
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