{"id":13796,"date":"2018-02-27T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/nintendo_switch_is_now_the_fast-selling_console_in_france_with_1_million_units_sold"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:55:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-is-now-the-fast-selling-console-in-france-with-1-million-units-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/nintendo-switch-is-now-the-fast-selling-console-in-france-with-1-million-units-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Is Now The Fast-Selling Console In France With 1 Million Units Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news5.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/nintendo_switch_is_now_the_fast-selling_console_in_france_with_1_million_units_sold\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/nintendo_switch_is_now_the_fast-selling_console_in_france_with_1_million_units_sold\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news5.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo Switch is continuing to show strong sales across Europe, with news that the handheld wonder has now sold over a million units in France, making it the fastest-selling console in the region. According to French newspaper Le Figaro, the handheld machine just passed the milestone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_switch_is_seeing_record_sales_in_both_france_and_italy\">having shifted 911.000 units in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Wii still holds the record for most consoles sold in France at a whopping 6.4 million units, but Nintendo of France president\u00a0Philippe Lavou\u00e9 has plenty of faith in the console, predicting it will notch up 2 million sales by the end of 2018. It&#8217;s a big claim, but with such a stellar year for Switch on French soil, it could easily happen if the trend continues to hold.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Et sinon \u00e0 lire aussi dans le <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Figaro_Economie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Figaro_Economie<\/a> : \u00e7a y est, Nintendo a vendu un million de Switch en France <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ExgvNWmhjZ\">pic.twitter.com\/ExgvNWmhjZ<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Chlo\u00e9 Woitier \u2615 (@W_Chloe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/W_Chloe\/status\/968044885243777024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you a gamer living in France? Let us know below about the Nintendo scene in France and your experiences with the console. We&#8217;d love to hear from you&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch is continuing to show strong sales across Europe, with news that the handheld wonder has now sold over a million units in France, making it the fastest-selling console in the region. According to French newspaper Le Figaro, the handheld machine just passed the milestone having shifted 911.000 units in 2017. Nintendo Wii still [&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-13796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796","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=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}