{"id":116742,"date":"2020-08-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/nintendo_switch_was_the_best-selling_console_in_the_us_in_july_2020"},"modified":"2020-08-14T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:00:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-was-the-best-selling-console-in-the-us-in-july-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/nintendo-switch-was-the-best-selling-console-in-the-us-in-july-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Was The Best-Selling Console In The US In July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/025562e525229\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/025562e525229\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/025562e525229\/nintendo-switch.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/025562e525229\/nintendo-switch.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"505\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The NPD Group has revealed various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/paper_mario_the_origami_king_has_the_best_us_launch_for_the_series_to_date_npd_charts_reveal\">games industry sales charts<\/a> for last month and 2020 so far. According to the industry analysts, Nintendo&#8217;s Switch was the best-selling console for July 2020, and also remains the best-selling console hardware for the year-to-date.<\/p>\n<p>NPD analyst Mat Piscatella shared the tweet below showing a small decline in industry-wide year-on-year hardware spending, as well as highlighting Nintendo&#8217;s Switch success:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">US NPD HW &#8211; Nintendo Switch was once again the best-selling hardware platform of both July and 2020 year-to-date in unit and dollar sales.<\/span>\u2014 Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatPiscatella\/status\/1294259221060435968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With the arrival of next-gen consoles before the end of the year, and with Microsoft taking a rather different approach in this coming generation (which feels more akin to <em>upgrade as-and-when you feel like it<\/em>), it&#8217;s perhaps unsurprising that sales of the other ageing consoles are being outpaced by Switch at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with Switch almost certainly having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/nintendo_switch_sales_surpass_61_million_equalling_the_mighty_nes\">overtaken lifetime sales of the mighty NES<\/a> at the time of writing&#8211;and in just over three years since launch, too&#8211;it seems there&#8217;s much to celebrate at Nintendo of America HQ, especially considering the challenges we&#8217;ve all been dealing with in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>It will be most interesting to see how Switch and the new consoles fare over in the remaining months of 2020 &#8211; and what games Nintendo has in store. They&#8217;ve got to have a couple, right?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NPD Group has revealed various games industry sales charts for last month and 2020 so far. According to the industry analysts, Nintendo&#8217;s Switch was the best-selling console for July 2020, and also remains the best-selling console hardware for the year-to-date. NPD analyst Mat Piscatella shared the tweet below showing a small decline in industry-wide [&hellip;]<\/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-116742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116742","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=116742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}