{"id":125997,"date":"2022-08-04T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125997"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T09:58:10","slug":"nintendo-switch-global-sales-approach-playstation-4-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/125997-nintendo-switch-global-sales-approach-playstation-4-levels","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch global sales approach PlayStation 4 levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2022\/220803_2e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>quarterly financial results<\/strong><\/a> show that its Switch console is close to overtaking the PlayStation 4 in total global sales.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese company revealed that its console has surpassed 111 million unit sales worldwide since it was released in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the PlayStation 4 was launched in 2013 and is estimated to have sold around 117 million units in its lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo explained that while its quarterly unit sales have decreased from 4.45 million to 3.43 million year-on-year, this was due to the semiconductor shortage rather than a lack of demand.<\/p>\n<p>The company still expects to sell 21 million units in the 2022\/23 financial year as demand has remained stable for the popular console across all regions.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch software sales totalled 41.41 million units &#8211; down by 8.6% year-on-year<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a title=\"Permalink to Logitech to launch handheld cloud gaming device in 2022\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/125991-logitech-to-launch-handheld-cloud-gaming-device-in-2022\" rel=\"bookmark\">Logitech to launch handheld cloud gaming device in 2022<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s quarterly financial results show that its Switch console is close to overtaking the PlayStation 4 in total global sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":108855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73,22983,1239],"class_list":["post-125997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-playstation-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125998,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125997\/revisions\/125998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}