The Nintendo Switch has officially outsold the GameBoy AdvanceNext on the list of console sales to overtake is the Nintendo Wii.
What you need to know
The Nintendo Switch has sold 84.59 million copies in the fiscal year 2021 which lasted from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021.
Software sales raised by 36.8% from FY20 to 230.88 million units in FY21.
This puts the console ahead of the GameBoy Advance, which sold 81.51 million units.
Nintendo's latest financial data has laid-out all the information on their hardware and software sales over the past financial year. Nintendo's financial years don't run in the same way that the calendar year does, but rather each FY for Nintendo starts on April 1 and ends on March 31 of the following year. This means that FY21, or the Financial Year ending in 2021, ran from April 1, 2020 until March 31, 2021.
Here are some highlights of the data:
Sales and profit
Net sales — 1,758.9 billion JPY, up 34.4% year-on-year.
From dedicated video game platforms — 1,700 billion JPY, up 35.6% year-on-year.
From m...
Source:
The Nintendo Switch has officially outsold the GameBoy Advance
