Switch hardware sales in the UK up 96% in November as compared to October, up 63% year-on-year

The game industry numbers in the UK for November 2020 are in, and Nintendo had yet another stellar showing. The Switch may have missed out on first place in terms of hardware due to the launch of PS5, but the system still rocked stores bigtime. Check out full details from the month below.

- nearly 900,000 game consoles were sold in the UK during November
- it was the eighth biggest month for console sales and the second biggest month for console revenue, behind December 2013
- Switch came in second place to the PS5
- Switch hardware sales were up 96% over the previous four weeks
- Switch hardware sales are up 63.1% year-on-year
- 2.38 million games were sold in the UK last month
- Switch games were the most popular of the month, accounting for nearly 35% of all games sold
- Nintendo was the top publisher of the month
- big sellers were Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart 8: Deluxe, Minecraft and Super Mario 3D All-Stars
- nearly 1.25 million accessories were sold in November, which is up 61.4% month-on-month and 48.3% year-on-year