{"id":43838,"date":"2018-08-31T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/switch_retail_game_sales_in_japan_surpass_lifetime_wii_u_retail_sales_in_18_months"},"modified":"2018-08-31T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T00:40:00","slug":"switch-retail-game-sales-in-japan-surpass-lifetime-wii-u-retail-sales-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/31\/switch-retail-game-sales-in-japan-surpass-lifetime-wii-u-retail-sales-in-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Retail Game Sales In Japan Surpass Lifetime Wii U Retail Sales In 18 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b093cbf95e100\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b093cbf95e100\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch Image\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b093cbf95e100\/nintendo-switch-image.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b093cbf95e100\/nintendo-switch-image.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch Image\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Given the success of the Nintendo Switch right now, it&#8217;s no surprise it continues to break existing sales records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Game Data Library, Switch retail game sales in Japan have already smashed lifetime Wii U retail game sales within the country.\u00a0Compared to the five years it took the Wii U to reach this amount, the Switch hit this milestone in about 18 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking into account the combined retail and digital game sales for Wii U in Japan, the total is 15 million. In comparison, the Switch was already at the 16 million mark in June, and is estimated to be at anywhere between 18 &#8211; 19 million in sales by now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is only retail, including digital total software sales of Wii U in Japan are at 15m, Switch was at 16m by the end of June, should be around 18m-19m by now.<\/p>\n<p>Launch periods complicate things but at least by March Switch was outdoing NDS and 3DS software launches aligned.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Game Data Library (@GameDataLibrary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameDataLibrary\/status\/1035237820091133952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid system has made headlines in recent months for being the top-selling system and shifting more retail and digital sales than other platforms. It&#8217;s also been doing particularly well in Japan, with games like <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/octopath_traveler\"><strong>Octopath Traveler<\/strong><\/a> selling out time and time again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you surprised, impressed or even relieved by this latest milestone? Tell us below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the success of the Nintendo Switch right now, it&#8217;s no surprise it continues to break existing sales records.\u00a0 According to Game Data Library, Switch retail game sales in Japan have already smashed lifetime Wii U retail game sales within the country.\u00a0Compared to the five years it took the Wii U to reach this amount, [&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-43838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43838","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=43838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}