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title: "Nintendo Hardware sales strongest since 2011"
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description: "NPD has released a lot of information recently and one thing to certainly note are the hardware sales of Nintendo."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2018-09-20 12:29:37"
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Nintendo Hardware sales strongest since 2011 | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![Nintendo Hardware sales strongest since 2011](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-hardware-sales-strongest-since-2011.png "Nintendo Hardware sales strongest since 2011")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-hardware-sales-strongest-since-2011.png)**NPD** has released a lot of information recently and one thing to certainly note are the hardware sales of Nintendo.

## [](#mat-piscatella-about-nintendo-hardware)Mat Piscatella about Nintendo Hardware

> Hardware spending in August 2018 grew 28 percent when compared to a year ago, to $214 million. PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Plug N Play devices such as the NES Classic Edition all posted year-on-year gains.
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> Besides that, all 3 consoles had a general tie in sales for the month of August. In fact, the difference in sales of the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and Nintendo Switch was “less than 3 percent.

However, Nintendo did have something to cheer about. According to **VentureBeat** “Nintendo hardware sales are at their strongest point year-to-date since 2011.”

And what was before the Nintendo Wii U which we al know had a really hard time getting sales. So it is a very good thing to see Nintendo is on the recovering end when it comes to hardware sales. The Nintendo Switch is still as popular ever … so we estimate that they are going to do very very well.

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