Nintendo Switch is about to overtake NES in lifetime sales – CNET [CNET]

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Nintendo Switch and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have sold astoundingly well.

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Nintendo Switch overtook the SNES’s lifetime sales over the 2019 holiday season, and it’s about to beat the NES. The Japanese company’s latest financial earnings report revealed that the hybrid console sold 61.44 million units, compared to the 1980s console’s 61.91 million, as previously noted by Nintendo Life.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which came out in March, is now the console’s second highest selling game, with 22.40 million copies sold. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still No. 1, having sold 26.74 million copies since 2017.

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