The Nintendo Switch has hit an enormous gross sales milestone within the US, as EA Sports College Football 25 turns into the best-selling sports activities sport ever.
Sony’s out of the blue very obscure gross sales figures for the PlayStation 2 have made it tough to establish whether or not the Nintendo Switch will surpass it in worldwide gross sales, however in a single key nation at the least, it already has.
Following the November 2024 US gross sales information from Circana, the Nintendo Switch has now hit 46.6 million models offered, exceeding the PlayStation 2’s lifetime determine within the area.
According to video games business analyst Mat Piscatella, this implies the Switch is now the second best-selling console within the US ever, behind the Nintendo DS at 53.80 million. While the determine for the PlayStation 2 isn’t said, NPD data final reported it as 43 million in January 2009.
It’s nonetheless unclear whether or not the Switch will surpass Sony’s console in worldwide gross sales. At the time of writing, the general Switch gross sales whole is 146.04 million, behind each the Nintendo DS at 154.02 million and the PlayStation 2 with its just lately touted ‘over 160 million’ milestone – regardless of Sony earlier stating its whole was 155 million.
Switch gross sales this Christmas will likely be essential in deciding whether or not the console may have an opportunity of exceeding the PlayStation 2, nevertheless it does appear considerably formidable at this stage.
Elsewhere within the figures, EA Sports College Football 25 has turn out to be the best-selling sports activities sport in US historical past, based mostly on greenback gross sales. It’s additionally the best-selling sport of the yr to this point within the nation with solely month to go, forward of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Helldivers 2.
Overall, spending on online game {hardware}, content material, and equipment fell by 7% in November in comparison with final yr, with the launch of Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (which launched in November slightly than October that yr) cited as a part of the rationale for the decline.
On the {hardware} entrance, 2.4 million models have been offered general, a 4% improve over the two.3 million offered a yr prior. This was led by the PlayStation 5, the place greenback gross sales have been up by 15%, whereas Xbox Series X took a large 29% decline and the Switch dropped by 3%.
As for cell video games, Pokémon TCG Pocket was the massive success story, rating at quantity two in November for income worldwide, following its launch in late October.
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