Nintendo Switch consoles sold worldwide from launch through March 2018

What this is

Nintendo Switch consoles sold worldwide from launch through March 2018: 17.79 million.

How it’s built

1. Added the first two annual totals in Nintendo’s investor spreadsheet: 2.74 million (year to March 2017) plus 15.05 million (year to March 2018).

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

Consoles sold to retailers, not to players.

The value

• 1,779 ten-thousand units (17.79M)

Where it comes from

The line in the source

Total hardware row: FY3/2017 274 + FY3/2018 1505 (units in ten thousands) = 1,779 (17.79M); derived sum, no quarterly table published

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