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CTOnews.com, July 10 / PRNewswire-FirstCall-Asianet /-- Switch, a console launched by Nintendo in 2017, is now in its sixth year of its career. despite poor reviews of hardware performance and quality control, sales figures prove that the vast majority of players are still willing to buy Switch consoles.

According to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun, Switch sold another 380000 machines in Japan in June, an increase of 68% over the same period the previous year, setting a new June sales record since its launch, mainly thanks to the Legend of Zelda: tears of the Kingdom.

Nippon Keizai Shimbun also pointed out that sales of Switch consoles may begin to decline after this year, and net profit for the current fiscal year is expected to fall 21% to 340 billion yen (about 17.278 billion yuan).

It is reported that the number of Switch game consoles sold in Japan is about to break through the 3000 million mark (CTOnews.com Note: 29.77 million at present). The media predict that Switch game consoles are likely to win the first place in the Japanese market next year, followed by Game Boy in 1989 (32.47 million) and NDS in 2004 (32.86 million).

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