{"id":2848,"date":"2017-10-19T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/307921"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:17:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-surpasses-2m-sales-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/19\/nintendo-switch-surpasses-2m-sales-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch surpasses 2M sales in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong> The Nintendo Switch has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20171019005513\/en\/\">sold over 2 million units in the U.S. alone<\/a>, according to the latest NPD figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>September also marked the Switch&#8217;s third straight month as the best-selling current-gen\u00a0console in the States, which is the fifth time it&#8217;s\u00a0held the top spot since launching in\u00a0March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an impressive achievement for the hybrid console, especially when you consider it&#8217;s yet to see its\u00a0first (presumably bumper) holiday season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Nintendo&#8217;s official figures, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/302482\/Sales_up_at_Nintendo_as_Switch_sells_47M_units_worldwide.php\">worldwide Switch sales totaled\u00a04.7 million units<\/a>\u00a0as of June 30, 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, those numbers are over three months old, and if the console has already surpassed 2M sales in the States, it&#8217;d be fair to assume worldwide sales have also seen a healthy rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: The Nintendo Switch has sold over 2 million units in the U.S. alone, according to the latest NPD figures.\u00a0 September also marked the Switch&#8217;s third straight month as the best-selling current-gen\u00a0console in the States, which is the fifth time it&#8217;s\u00a0held the top spot since launching in\u00a0March.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an impressive achievement for the hybrid console, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","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=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}