As the video game industry gears for the holiday season rush, the Nintendo Switch is quickly becoming the best selling console of 2017.

According to the NPD Group, the Switch has outsold Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 in five of the seven months since its launch. It has sold more than 2 million units in the U.S. alone and 4.7 million worldwide.

The Switch is about to enter its first holiday season, and with flagship titles like Super Mario Odyssey and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 launching in the next few months, the system should see a major surge in sales.

The numbers are impressive for the console/handheld hybrid when compared to its predecessor, the Wii U. Lifetime sales for that system finished at only 13.5 million units as of December of 2016, making it Nintendo's worst selling system. Though the Switch is rapidly closing in on that number, it doesn't match the meteoric rise of the original Wii, which had sold nearly twice as many units as the Switch by this point in its lifetime.

The question remains whether there will be enough supply to keep up with the inevitable demand of the Switch this holiday season.

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Ivan Favelevic is Blast Magazine's Associate Gaming Editor. He knows he would be a nobody in Westeros and is ok with that. Follow him on Twitter @FlyingBags to hear random thoughts on games plus some soccer and basketball rants.

6 Responses

  1. Tutuapp

    People has been acclaiming Nintendo Switch to be a big threat to PS4. But it’s just not do there’s a VAST vast difference between their sales.

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  2. Tweakbox

    Yes, true! PS4 has sold nearly around 70 million units this year comparing to only 5 mil units of Nintendo Switch. I am not saying switch is bad but guys stop comparing them as rivals they are playing their own legacy in the game.

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