The U.S. best selling product on Black Friday, Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday was...

The U.S. best selling product on Black Friday, Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday was...

The U.S. best selling product on Black Friday, Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday was the Nintendo Switch

2017-11-29 16:30:00 by Chris Moyse

Nintendo have much to be thankful for

There seems to be no stopping the good news for legendary game developers Nintendo. It is being reported that, in the United States, the highest selling item over the Thanksgiving weekend was the company's Switch console.

According to the digital sales stats, tracked by Adobe Insights, Nintendo's hybrid-platform topped the sales charts on Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This is despite the fact that many retailers chose not to discount the machine's price, though still featured it in marketing campaigns. Pretty sneaky, sis.

The Switch beat out other popular items including Chromecast, Roku units and Hatchimals, I'm not hip enough to be aware of the latter. The news of the console's Thanksgiving success comes in the same week that Nintendo were named the richest company in Japan, by business journal Toyo Keizai.

While no-one truly knows what the future holds, especially in an industry and an economy that can turn on a dime, it seems that for now, Nintendo are most assuredly not doomed.

Nintendo Switch best-selling item of Thanksgiving weekend [Adobe Insights]

I actually want one too but i'll personally wait on that Pokemon announcement then i'll surely get myself a Switch.

Awesome! It's a great console and this is very well deserved! Nintendo is back, so let's party :)

bu..but...PS4 bestest black friday eva!!! :(

what is this??

In your face @techhog89

What are Hatchimals & Colleggtibles? This is the first time I heard of these items?

@Jag85: Stop it! You're killing the all the haters!

Nintendo will keep dominating unless MS and Sony start teasing for a full gen upgrade (or try to create a me too product)

@onesiphorus: Think kinder eggs, but without the chocolate.

Top product and without going on sale, impressive.

It makes me happy to see the Nintendo Switch do so well. It an incredible system and deserves the success that it is having.

@Jag85: This just goes to prove how consumerism has rotted people's brains. Not even on sale lol.

That's impossible. People on SW said they saw piles of them in stores and the better consoles were flying off shelves.

Yeah! I thought Nintendo Switch shortages were artificial and now will be another Wii U? LOL

Best selling product online*. I think that's a big distinction people shouldn't ignore.

LOL ?

This is funny sheeot

@Nonstop-Madness: Even so, major news outlets have been reporting that out of all the Stores, Amazon was the one that came out on Top on Black Friday-Cyber Monday.

Cows are salty

But that's impossible... I was at a best buy and I saw a guy buy a ps4. This must be fake news

And to think that lemmings thought XB1x would be the winner . I guess no one wants the most powerful brick ever created and woot to Nintendo

@onesiphorus: If you're old enough to remember what a Furby was - they are pretty much the same stupid thing, except these ones are supposed to hatch from an egg.

Half, or so I heard, that sold last year stopped working a day or two after they hatched. I didn't follow up on what I heard, so it may have just been an exaggeration.

Congrats to the Switch.

Since this is SWs, lol at Cows and Lems.

Called it, despite cows claiming they had won.

The Switch is the hottest item this season.

This only counts online and has spotty accuracy. You'll see soon that PS4 won NPD, followed by XB1, then Switch, then SNES Classic, and finally 3DS.

I've seen people in stores asking for "fingerlings"

Yes, that's real.

LOL, keep on denying it!

Well, since this doesn't include retail it checks out.

Well, pretty much everybody has PS/XB, so it’s not a surprise.

@neatfeatguy: You know your stuff, would you mind explaining what the heck a pj mask is?

Another Switch celebration thread, yay.

@FLOPPAGE_50: Hmm that... only raises more questions lol. O_o

You mad bro?

We had a one day price here in AUS at $399, which is unheard of. Sold out within a few hours. Insane. So hyped for Nintendo!

Yeah, it's gonna be the hot-ticket item this Christmas.

@techhog89: lol, fair point

Good news for the fans...congrats

Was it even on sale anywhere? I didn't see it if it was...

IGN agrees with TC and adobe..guess we'll see.

NPD October 2017: Nintendo Systems Top October Hardware Sales

According to NPD, the Nintendo Switch system was the #1 video game hardware in October, followed by the Super NES Classic Edition at #2. Combined with the 3DS family of systems, Nintendo hardware accounted for two-thirds of all video game hardware sold in the United States for the second month in a row.

@KBFloYd said:

@FireEmblem_Man said:

@GameboyTroy said:

Another Switch celebration thread, yay.

You mad bro?

It's nice to see Nintendo do well again but I don't like how they did it and I like motion controls. They have to come up with a better gimmick next time.

@GameboyTroy said:

@KBFloYd said:

@FireEmblem_Man said:

You mad bro?

It's nice to see Nintendo do well again but I don't like how they did it and I like motion controls. They have to come up with a better gimmick next time.

So, what better gimmick can they do? It's working, and it's selling! Stop being an entitled gamer!

Sadly, I do know about some of this junk....having little kids does this to me.

Switch won "online" sales.

PS4 won "Retail store" sales.

PS4 won Overall when both are combined.

PS4 won, so LOL at nintendo fanboys who can't use reading comprehension.

Congratulations to Nintendo!

Xbox Fanatics hiding behind the Switch is absolutely pathetic.

Oh my, idiots saying the Switch isn't doomed must be ashamed. Just number one? What a joke.