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Nintendo Switch Console Sells 32.27 Million Units Worldwide
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forecast that it would sell 20 million units during the current fiscal year.
The console sold 9.41 million units in the three-month period from October 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018. The console sold 22.worldwide as of September.
The company reported total sales of 997.2 billion yen ($9.15 billion) for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2018, a 16% increase from the same period the previous year. Overseas sales ed for 774.9 billion yen ($7.11 billion), 77.7% of the total figure. The company had an operating profit of 220 billion yen ($2.02 billion) during the same period, and an ordinary profit of 240.2 billion yen ($2.20 billion).
The Nintendo Switch console launched worldwide on March 3, 2017, and it sured 1 million units in Japan by June 2017.
The Nintendo Switch had outsold the Wii U console, which has sold 13.56 million units worldwide, as of December 2017.
Sources: Nintendo, Nikkei (上田志晃) via Gematsu, Siliconera
