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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) by crafoo on Sunday January 07 2018, @12:26PM (1 child)

    by crafoo (6639) on Sunday January 07 2018, @12:26PM (#619111)

    It's what got the zeldas and marios that all the numales grew up on.
    when is it getting real games, like Nintendogs 2?
    Well, I mean it has Butcher, so that's one good game.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @11:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 08 2018, @11:22PM (#619770)

    That's exactly why it is popular. They have far more games with actual gameplay and are fun to play on their own. You can keep all your "real" games, all the me-too FPS which are exactly the same game over and over and over. All they do is re-skin them and improve the graphics, but the gameplay is the same year after year after year. Bored fighting zombies? No problem, slap a new background and skin on it and you're fighting aliens. Or Nazis. Or cybersoldiers. They dump 90% of their budgets into high production cut scenes. Once you've played Call of Duty, you've basically played every one of those other games.

    Look, Far Cry 5 is coming out! It's still the same game as 1 through 4, "but it's wearing a new hat! [youtube.com]"! I want it, I want it, I want it!