Nintendo handheld console outperforms even the PlayStation 4

Nintendo reported that total sales of its Switch handheld game console amounted to 52.48 million.

sold in about two years and ten months. Even the popular PlayStation 4 took longer to cross the 50 million threshold. Meanwhile, the cost of the consoles is approximately equal.

It turns out that Nintendo Switch has overtaken Sony PlayStation 4 in terms of sales speed. The latter reached 50 million units sold three years and one month after launch.

Nintendo also reportedly sold over 310million copies of games for Switch. Among them, the leaders were Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (22.96 million copies), Super Smash Bros Ultimate (17.68 million copies) and Super Mario: Odyssey (16.59 million copies). These are exclusive to the console.