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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @03:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-electrician-needed dept.

The Nintendo Switch has been named America's fastest-selling home games console.

A total of 4.8 million units were sold in the US during the 10 months following the Switch's launch there on 3 March last year.

The Switch breaks tradition with the firm's previous home consoles in allowing owners to use it as a portable console for game-playing on the move.

One analyst said Nintendo had completely turned its business around.

The previous record for the fastest-selling console in the US was Nintendo's Wii, launched in 2006, which went on to be one of the top-selling consoles in history worldwide.

However, the company's next offering - the Wii U - fared much more poorly.

As a consequence, Nintendo had been under considerable pressure to deliver a popular device this time around.

What if you don't like Mario or Zelda?


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Apparition on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:41AM

    by Apparition (6835) on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:41AM (#619025) Journal

    Sega pulled out of the console hardware business in 2001 with the Dreamcast [wikipedia.org] their last console release, for two reasons. First, the Sega Saturn was a huge pain in the rear to program for [theguardian.com], giving ground to Nintendo with the Nintendo 64 and Sony with the PlayStation. Then Sega's Dreamcast console went toe-to-toe with the Sony PlayStation 2, and it lost, leaving Sega a bloody, crumbled mess. The Dreamcast suffered major piracy issues due to ease of pirating Dreamcast games, and the PlayStation 2 was able to play original PlayStation games. The combination of Sega losing market share in the Saturn era due to the difficulty third-parties had making games for it, the ease of piracy with the Dreamcast, and the PS2 just plain being better with a huge back catalog of games dealt a death blow to Sega's console business.
     

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