{"id":110305,"date":"2020-03-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/switch_is_still_the_best-selling_console_of_2020_in_the_us_tops_february_charts"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:00:00","slug":"switch-is-still-the-best-selling-console-of-2020-in-the-us-tops-february-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/13\/switch-is-still-the-best-selling-console-of-2020-in-the-us-tops-february-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Is Still The Best-Selling Console Of 2020 In The US, Tops February Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s probably to be expected as PlayStation and Xbox fans start to turn their attention towards next-generation hardware coming later this year, but the Nintendo Switch is still sitting pretty as the best-selling games console of 2020 in the US.<\/p>\n

The news comes from American market research company NPD Group; company analyst Mat Piscatella has shared the following update.<\/p>\n

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“Nintendo Switch was the best-selling hardware platform of February in both unit and dollar sales. And [it] remains the best-selling hardware platform of the year.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s not the best of times for the gaming industry as a whole, though, with hardware spending being significantly less this February compared to the same period last year. “Hardware spending in February 2020 fell 34% when compared to a year ago, to $183 million,” Piscatella says. \u201cAll in-market console platforms declined when compared to a year ago. Annual spending has dropped 35 percent, to $312 million.”<\/p>\n

The Switch has been having a harder time in Japan lately, with the coronavirus outbreak impacting the original model’s distribution. Our regular Japanese chart updates show that the original model only shifted 4,424 units<\/a> last week, despite sitting at around the 80,000-per-week mark<\/a> before any impact was felt. Interestingly, this has resulted in a rise in sales for the Switch Lite as fans grab whichever system is available to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Nintendo Life It’s probably to be expected as PlayStation and Xbox fans start to turn their attention towards next-generation hardware coming later this year, but the Nintendo Switch is still sitting pretty as the best-selling games console of 2020 in the US. The news comes from American market research company NPD Group; company analyst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}