According to the latest NPD report which reports data from the United States, Switch was the best-selling hardware platform in units sold for the month of January. Not only that, but unit sales were the highest of any platform in a January month since the Wii in January 2010.

Switch lost out to the PlayStation 5 last month in terms of dollars sold. However, it should be pointed out that Sony’s console is significantly more expensive.

Overall gaming hardware sales in the U.S. were 144 percent higher than January 2020, coming in at $319 million. NPD says it’s the highest amount for a January month since $323 million was generated in January 2011.

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January 2021 NPD: Best-selling games on Switch for the month

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Another round of data is in from this month’s NPD report. We now have a look at the best-selling games in the United States for January specifically on Switch.

Here’s the full set of data:

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January 2021 NPD: top 20 best-selling games in the U.S.

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NPD Group has released a listing of the top twenty best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of January 2021. The results can be found below.

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Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic Games establishes Playtonic Friends publishing label, announcing its own new game soon

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Playtonic Games, the studio known for its Yooka-Laylee Games, today announced the establishment of Playtonic Friends. It’s a new publishing label “designed to bring scores of fresh, creative, and compelling games to the market in the years ahead.” The move “will allow the company to use its experience of developing and launching both Yooka-Laylee and Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair to enable those hidden-gem games, developers, and new businesses to reach the best audience possible.”

Awe Interactive, Fabraz, and okidokico are on board thus far. Games coming from the Playtonic Friends brand will be announced soon.

Here’s the announcement in video form: