This blog post will use information from multiple articles. The first one is from the News website called Forbes which the article is called "The Nintendo Switch has beaten the first year sales of the PS2 in Japan!". The article was created on January 1st, 2018 and the author is "Ollie Barder". The other articles will be sourced below in the link section. The first article is about the sales that the switch has made in Japan. It talks about the most sold game console in the industry, the PS2, being challenged by the sales of the Nintendo switch. This is huge news because previously, Nintendo has done poorly with sales with the Wii U but now they are being a contender for the most sold game console in history. It's incredible that the Switch has managed to beat the most outsold console in their first year of sales in the gaming industry. A record that hasn't been beaten since the 2000's. After the devastating fall of the Wii U, it's great to see a comeback from Nintendo with their latest console. According to the data from article 2, the Switch didn't do as well as the PS2 for the first 5 months but the Switch quickly caught up and the sales of the Switch went way above the sales of the PS2. Overall, the PS2 has sold 3,016,622 units in Japan and the Switch has sold 3,258,083 units for the first year. Even the game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has major success as well. The Legend of Zelda series has been around since the 1980's and many of the games has become favorites of the fans. Though out of the 18 main games from the series, Breath of the Wild has sold the second most with at least 4.7 million sold from the end of September in 2017 according the third article. Only being beaten by The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time which is considered by some to be the best video game of all time. Yet, this is only the first year so Breath of the wild will probably sell more and in the following years, which could make this the most sold game in the Zelda series! Nintendo has learned from the mistakes the Wii U has made. They have provided more third party games and allowed developing companies to put their games on the console, creating more games for the switch and the interest for the Switch grows. The Wii U had very low third party support which made the Wii U have a low amount of games to play on the console and people didn't have interest in the Wii U in the beginning because of that. Nintendo was never able to recover from that. They were able to make a couple successful games on the Wii U but by the time they hit the shelves, the gaming fanbase given up on the Wii U. They have clearly learned from this with the Nintendo switch. They have new releases each month and allow third party support with other companies to make more games. Thanks to that, the switch has a wonderful game library and it will continue to grow for years to come. I have stuck around during the Wii U era and had fun with some of those games that were made on that console but the Switch has definitely improved compared to the Wii U. I am glad that they learned from their mistakes and improved for the better. They have made major improvements which contributed to their major success. Without improvement, a console cannot be very successful and is doomed to failure. Luckily, Nintendo realized it before it was too late and now we have the amazing phenomena that is the Switch. Next, I will comment on Matthew's & Rachna's wonderful blog posts where you can experience their opinions on current events as well. Until next time, have a wonderful day! ~Michael Quinn Links:
1. www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2018/01/01/the-nintendo-switch-has-beaten-the-first-year-sales-of-the-ps2-in-japan/#711600d6685f 2. nintendosoup.com/nintendo-switch-surpasses-ps2s-first-year-sales-japan-thanks-huge-restock/ 3. nintendeal.com/news/breath-of-the-wild-is-japans-highest-selling-zelda-game-in-almost-20-years/
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