{"id":16156,"date":"2018-03-29T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_4_million_units_in_japan"},"modified":"2018-03-29T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T11:30:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-has-now-sold-4-million-units-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/29\/nintendo-switch-has-now-sold-4-million-units-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Has Now Sold 4 Million Units In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside \/>\n<p class=\"description\">4,037,144, to be precise<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/794\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Damo\" \/><\/li>\n<li>by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Damo\">Damien McFerran<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><span>5 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Punching up!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_4_million_units_in_japan\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_4_million_units_in_japan\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Punching up!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In just over a year on sale, the Switch has pushed past the 4 million units sold marker in its homeland, according to Famistu.<\/p>\n<p>As of 25th March 2018, 4,037,144 Switch consoles are now safely in the hands of Japanese players. When you consider that&#8217;s the total for a <em>single<\/em> territory after a little more than 12 months, it&#8217;s quite an achievement &#8211; and goes to show just how successful Nintendo&#8217;s new console has been in its homeland.<\/p>\n<p>As of December last year, the Switch had sold\u00a014.86 million units worldwide &#8211; we&#8217;d imagine that figure is now well out of date as Switch continues to shift like hotcakes all over the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Can Nintendo <em>really<\/em> ship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_president_aims_for_20_million_switch_units_to_be_shipped_next_year\">20 million consoles<\/a> in this financial year? We wouldn&#8217;t bet against it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: http:\/\/www.japanesenintendo.com\/post\/172364540734\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesenintendo.com\/post\/172364540734\">japanesenintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4,037,144, to be precise by Damien McFerran 5 hours ago In just over a year on sale, the Switch has pushed past the 4 million units sold marker in its homeland, according to Famistu. As of 25th March 2018, 4,037,144 Switch consoles are now safely in the hands of Japanese players. When you consider that&#8217;s [&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-16156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156","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=16156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}