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Nintendo Switch Has Surpassed The Wii's Lifetime Sales In The US (www.nintendolife.com)
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Nintendo's Switch has just achieved another sales milestone. Although worldwide hardware sales of the hybrid system surpassed Wii sales some time ago, there's been an update in the US.

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[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, duh. Is this really news?

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to new data from Circana... system achieved this feat in July 2023

newish

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Sponsored by Circana Contributor
Published on Aug. 28, 2023

1 day old now, so pretty new. Sales data doesn't release on August 1st, it needs to be compiled from its various sources, sorted, and composited together.

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It’s actually an ad.

[–] pbsds@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You forget that the Wii was advertised to even grandparents. They aimed way beyond the gamer demography, at the cost of developing "too easy" or too hand-holding games for the system