Welcome. Hello and welcome to NBC IGN's Nintendo podcast this week we will be talking about

Nintendo you guessed it because it is Nintendo but Nintendo podcasts Nintendo voice. This

week we will be talking about a bunch of sales information including sales information about

the Nintendo Switch Pokemon Sword and Shield Animal Crossing, New Horizons and a lot more.

Also about how Nintendo reportedly just canceled Zelda Netflix series after it leaked

Monster Hunter Rise IGN first content and a lot more including potentially bayonet

of three information but you know you'll have to wait to hear that. Anyway I'm your host

Casey DeFruit is in this week I am joined by Seth Macy. Hello.

Pear Snyder. Good day. And Tom Marks. Hello. Hi. Hello everyone. I have all of them if you're

watching this to my right so I'll be looking over here which looks like I'm looking away from them

based on how we're laid out but that is okay just pretend I'm looking at everyone.

How are you doing today? Great. Lovely. Pretty pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah.

Cool. I guess let's get started. So the Switch has sold 79.87 million and that is hell of a lot

and the Nintendo Switch Lite has almost surpassed the sales of the Wii U just the light.

Yeah. Oh man. Yeah. That's a it's a big number. It is. It's pretty incredible to just like

think about the roller coaster ride that Nintendo has been on with the insane success of the Wii

the Wii and then the insane crater of the Wii U. Not that again we have to caveat this every time

we say this financially I still think that system was really fun right. Wonderful. Like it was a

financial disaster or at least a sales disaster and now this is like they're on top of the world.

It's insane at that trajectory. It's really really. Yeah. I think honestly I don't think it's

hyperbole to say that in Japan the console wars are over. And no it's the what was it so far

this year 99% of all software sold in Japan was for the Switch. Right. 86 and like hardware was

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