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It's been a good two years for the Nintendo Switch. Equal to Nintendo, the gaming tablet has been the bestselling enliven in the US for 23 straight months. As well-conditioned as equal to experiments from the NPD Group, it just had its all-time October ever, moving 735,926 units of both the Switch as well-conditioned as Switch Lite in the US. The visitor says that represents a 136 percent infiltrate compared to last year. To date, the Switch has sold 22.5 million units in the US, as well-conditioned as last week Nintendo revealed that increasingly than 68 million units hypothesize been sold globally. "We're gleaming injudicious our momentum," says Nick Chavez, Nintendo of America's SVP of sales as well-conditioned as marketing.

Chavez puts the company's big October gravitating to two mall factors. One is a biggest accumulation of stock; this year in particular, it's generally been infrangible to acquisition a Switch on store shelves. This has only been exasperated by more entreatment due to a combination of the pandemic as well-conditioned as the deface success of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. "Certainly the covid pandemic has created increasingly opportunities to time-out at home, increasingly comedy time at home," he tells The Verge. "We've seen unprecedented entreatment for Nintendo Switch throughout the skookumchuck of the year."

The second reasonableness is the Animal Crossing-themed Switch that was introduced early this year. "That came rearmost into the exchange effectually October 4th, as well-conditioned as many people were gleaming to get their hands on that as quickly as possible," says Chavez. "And we're going to continue to hypothesize that in bounteous accumulation throughout this joviality as well-conditioned as into 2021."

"A lot of our growth has been driven by an influx of women."

As with last year, Nintendo says that a large part of its growth comes from elongated mythicism by women as well-conditioned as families. "This year solidly a few our growth has been driven by an influx of women province Nintendo Switch, increasingly kids as well-conditioned as teenagers province Nintendo Switch, as well-conditioned as parents," says Chavez. In agreement of what hardware people are buying, he adds that "we are still seeing a strong preference for the flagship system at $299."

The timing of the ballyhooing is particularly likeable as this week likewise saw the sleet of both the PlayStation 5 as well-conditioned as two new Xbox consoles from Microsoft. Going into the ever-important joviality season, there will naturally be more competition, which could catenate Nintendo's 23-month streak to a stop. Nintendo has a few big releases to steer its joviality -- including Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and the upcoming Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity -- except the visitor likewise believes it's not necessarily in childlike contraposition with Sony as well-conditioned as Microsoft.

"It's continually exciting when new consoles enter the video game marketplace. It's immoderate to see the PS5 as well-conditioned as the Xbox Unfixedness S as well-conditioned as X coming into the marketplace," says Chavez. "But we do anticipate that the Nintendo Switch occupies a fundamentally unrepeated position, as well-conditioned as solidly has a unrepeated hypothesis for shoppers as well-conditioned as players."

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