Nintendo ships one million Switches in China since late-2019 launch


By Pei Li

The one million Switch sales figure is bigger than the combined sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One over the same period, said analysts. — Dreamstime/TNS

HONG KONG: Nintendo Co Ltd has shipped one million Switch consoles in China since it launched the device in the world’s largest video games market at the end of 2019, its Chinese partner Tencent Holdings Ltd said on Jan 11.

The Japanese company launched its Switch console in China in December 2019 in partnership with distributor Tencent, China’s biggest video games and social media company, in a drive to expand the reach of the home-portable device.

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