Nintendo Switch reaches 50 million consoles sold faster than PlayStation 4

The Nintendo Switch is one of the fastest-selling consoles ever. As part of the results for its fiscal Q3, the company announced today that it has sold 52.48 million Switch systems as of December 31. That puts its worldwide pace ahead of the PlayStation 4. PS4 recently surpassed 106 million systems sold since its November 2013 debut. But Switch launched in March 2017. And when you line both consoles up side by side, Nintendo’s hybrid console was faster to reach 50 million systems sold. Switch broke through that threshold with 52.48 million units sold through almost 34 months. PlayStation 4, meanwhile, hit 50 million consoles sold on December 6, 2016. And that’s not quite 37 months after its November 2013 debut. It’s worth noting that Microsoft doesn’t share Xbox hardware numbers, but estimates put it at around 50 million after 74 months.