{"id":28822,"date":"2023-05-09T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/nintendo-switch-console-sales-down-22-year-on-year\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T11:05:32","slug":"nintendo-switch-console-sales-down-22-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/nintendo-switch-console-sales-down-22-year-on-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch console sales down 22% year-on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nNintendo Switch console sales dropped by almost a quarter over the 12 months ending 31st March, though game sales remain strong.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNintendo painted a mixed picture in its latest financial results, with hardware sales now definitively past the console&#8217;s peak as the Switch enters its seventh year of life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat said, game sales remain strong &#8211; down only slightly on the console&#8217;s last two years in terms of first-party software like Pok\u00e9mon and Splatoon, and still well up on 2020 and everything before that.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-switch-console-sales-down-22-year-on-year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch console sales dropped by almost a quarter over the 12 months ending 31st March, though game sales remain strong. Nintendo painted a mixed picture in its latest financial results, with hardware sales now definitively past the console&#8217;s peak as the Switch enters its seventh year of life. 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