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Nintendo forecasts Switch will overtake Nintendo DS this year, becoming company's best-selling platform
Nintendo expects Switch to sell another 13.5m units during the coming financial year - enough that it will overtake Nin…
The console sales are slowing, with 17.97m sold over the past 12 months - down 12.6 percent on the year before. Nintendo's forecast of 13.5m units for the coming year will not be straightforward, then, especially as it does not have the same software line-up this year as it did last, when it launched Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (now on 20.61m copies sold) and Super Mario Bros. Wonder (now on 13.44m copies sold). Both Mario vs. Donkey Kong and Princess Peach: Showtime, released this year, have now sold 1m copies each.
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