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title: "Nintendo Switch now has outsold the PS3"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/nintendo-switch-now-has-outsold-the-ps3/"
description: "New video game data released for Japan has shown that the Nintendo Switch systems have now outsold Sony’s legacy system, the PlayStation 3 in Japan."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2019-12-08 18:40:15"
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Nintendo Switch now has outsold the PS3 | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Nintendo Switch now has outsold the PS3](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-switch-now-has-outsold-the-ps3.jpg "Nintendo Switch now has outsold the PS3")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/nintendo-switch-now-has-outsold-the-ps3.jpg)New video game data released for Japan has shown that the Nintendo Switch systems have now outsold Sony’s legacy system, the PlayStation 3 in Japan.

While we are talking about Japan this is still really damn soon.

## [](#numbers)Numbers

The Nintendo Switch has now sold 10,432,570 units in Japan, and as of 2016, the PlayStation 3 had sold 10,248,867 units. The next target for the Nintendo Switch is for it to outsell the Wii which is at 12,739,119 units.

Well with the momentum the system has … that is probably going to happen bu the end of the year because we still have a holiday season to go.

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