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The Switch has shipped 1 million units in China, according to official figures from Nintendo’s distribution partner Tencent.
As reported by Reuters, a Tencent spokesperson described that milestone as a “good start” for the hybrid console, adding that “games released on Nintendo Switch (China-only version) have been well received by the market.”
Those 1 million sales come just over a year after the Switch’s launch in China on December 10, 2019, and Nintendo teamed up with Tencent to bring the console along with a selection of approved titles to the lucrative Chinese market.
Although the figure could represent a remarkable start for the device in China, it is merely a drop in the bucket when you consider that the Switch has so far racked up more than 68 million sales worldwide.
For context, that’s five times the number that its predecessor, the Wii U, sold over its entire lifetime, and just 7 million sales short of the Nintendo 3DS ‘lifetime sales total of 75 million units.
