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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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm surprised it took that long.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

They sold a lot of Wii's, for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well there was that period when you couldn't even find switches to buy, that probably didn't help.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, the Wii also had that period, and it was even worse than the Switch’s launch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I meant around Covid, several years after the launch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess the motion controllers gimmick was a more wide-appealing thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wii sports and wii fit sold a lot of units. My mom bought a wii fit to use with my Wii and she never games. Like ever. She was one of those moms that called other game systems “Nintendo”.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Same exact thing with my mom