{"id":5416,"date":"2017-11-16T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/309853"},"modified":"2017-11-16T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T23:27:00","slug":"nintendos-switch-and-snes-classic-topped-u-s-game-hardware-sales-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/nintendos-switch-and-snes-classic-topped-u-s-game-hardware-sales-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Switch and SNES Classic topped U.S. game hardware sales last month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20171116005572\/en\/Nintendo-News\">report<\/a> from The NPD Group, the Nintendo Switch was the best-selling game console in the U.S. last month, with\u00a0the SNES Classic Edition in second place.<\/p>\n<p>This lends a bit more credence to the notion that the Switch is selling quite well for Nintendo, which (according to\u00a0company chief Tatsumi Kimishima&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/309519\/Nintendo_sees_Switch_holiday_sales_as_the_key_to_obtaining_Wiilike_momentum.php\">recently Q&amp;A with\u00a0investors<\/a>) is\u00a0necessary this holiday season in order for the console to achieve Wii-like momentum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with the strong sales of the SNES Classic mini-console (which sold roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/308672\/SNES_Classic_and_Super_Mario_Odyssey_hit_2M_sales.php\">2 million in its first month<\/a>) and continuing sales of the &#8220;3DS family of devices&#8221;, NPD claims that Nintendo hardware accounts for roughly two-thirds of all video game hardware sold in the U.S. in both September and October.<\/p>\n<p>This was also evidently the first October since 2011 in which the NPD (which gets sales data from most major retail operations) saw over 1 million sales of video game hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report from The NPD Group, the Nintendo Switch was the best-selling game console in the U.S. last month, with\u00a0the SNES Classic Edition in second place. This lends a bit more credence to the notion that the Switch is selling quite well for Nintendo, which (according to\u00a0company chief Tatsumi Kimishima&#8217;s\u00a0recently Q&amp;A with\u00a0investors) is\u00a0necessary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5416","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\/5416","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=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}