Nintendo has raised its sales forecast for its latest console, the Switch, following another quarter of strong performance. The company now expects to ship 14 million units in its financial year ending March 2018, up from its previous prediction of 10 million.
Combined with the 2.74 million units moved in the four weeks since the Switch’s early March release, that would make for 16.74 million units in total. For comparison, Nintendo only ever shipped 13.56 million Wii U consoles over its entire lifespan — the Switch is set to sell more in one year than the Wii U managed in nearly five.
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