9.8 million
Content holders have every opportunity to be squirrely about hard data. Netflix is infamous for only telling us when something is a rip-roaring success, and Microsoft eventually started withholding (Lucille Bluth would be proud) Xbox One hardware sales. While Nintendo generally isn’t part of that group, last November they didn’t provide Switch Online numbers and continued to avoid the question: until today.
Nintendo has a ways to go before it catches up with Sony,but it’s getting there. We’re also right on the precipice of a new console generation in 2020. As I say frequently: “exciting [and expensive] times!”
