Nintendo Switch, the new home gaming system that people can also take on the go, has sold faster in its launch month than any other video game system in Nintendo history. The Nintendo Switch system sold more than 906,000 units in March, according to the NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. That makes Nintendo Switch one of the fastest-selling video game systems of all time. Notably, this sales surge was accomplished in a nontraditional month for a console launch.
The Nintendo Switch system sold more than 906,000 units in March, according to the NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game sold over 1.3 million units*. That total includes more than 925,000 units sold for Nintendo Switch and nearly 460,000 units sold for the Wii U console.
That means that Nintendo sold more of this game for Nintendo Switch than it sold Nintendo Switch systems, for an attach rate of more than 100 percent. This may be attributed to people who purchased both a limited edition of the game to collect and a second version to play.
Hot damn.
Huge, major success for Nintendo. Now let's hope they keep the momentum up, and that more great games come.
Zelda's attached rate would be high since Switch's game library is very small.
I don't think the attach rate starts going down until next week, when Mario Kart 8 Deluxe comes out. The Switch is already pricey, so it's obvious that if people are only going to buy one game, it's most likely to be Zelda. But I can see some people buying the system from next week on and picking Mario Kart instead of Zelda. Splatoon 2 is going to have a big attach rate in Japan, too, so by the end of the summer, I expect the Zelda attach rate to have gone down quite a bit.
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