Nintendo has kept up its record with Switch again being the best-selling hardware platform in units and dollars for both December and the 2020 year. Additionally, annual dollar sales of Switch hardware were the second-highest for a platform in U.S. history. Wii is the only system to achieve higher dollar sales, which happened in 2008.

We also have an interesting tidbit about Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In 2020, it had the highest physical dollar sales for a Nintendo-published game in a calendar year since Wii Fit Plus in 2010.

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December 2020 NPD: Best-selling games on Switch for the month and in 2020, best-selling games of 2020 overall

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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 December on Switch as well as 2020 as a whole. Additionally, there’s a separate chart covering the best-selling titles across all platforms during the last year.

Here’s the full set of data:

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December 2020 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 December 2020. The results can be found below.

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Canada: Switch sells over 148,000 units in November, best-selling console for 25 consecutive months

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Just like in the United States, November proved to be a successful month for Switch in Canada. Data from the NPD Group reveals that the system’s sales came in at 148,000 units during the month. Switch has been the best-selling console in Canada for 25 consecutive months.

This year, Switch has sold 790,000 units in Canada so far. The system surpassed in eleven months the total number of systems sold in all of 2019 by over 162,000 units.

Nintendo of Canada general manager Dominic Gross said in a statement:

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November 2020 NPD: Best-selling games on Switch, year-to-date, last 12 months

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Another round of data is in from this month’s NPD report. Along with the best-sellers on Switch specifically for the month of November 2020, we also have a list of the games year-to-date and have sold the best over the last 12 months. Continue on below for the full results.

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November 2020 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 November 2020. The results can be found below.

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November 2020 NPD: Switch sells over 1.35 million units, was the best-selling console

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Switch sold over 1.35 million units in the United States last month and was the best-selling console of November, Nintendo has announced. The system continued its streak as the best-selling system for 24 consecutive months.

Switch sales in 2020 have surpassed 6.92 million units, “surpassing in 11 months the total number of systems sold in all of 2019 by over 426,000,” Nintendo says.

Here’s the full announcement from Nintendo:

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NPD reveals that LEGO is the best-selling third-party franchise on Nintendo platforms

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When you think of third-party games on Nintendo systems, LEGO is one of the first things that may come to mind. After all, we’ve seen numerous titles on the Big N’s systems going back to the N64. It also helps that several LEGO games tend to release each generation.

Given all of this information, it shouldn’t be too surprising to hear that LEGO is the best-selling third-party franchise on Nintendo platforms. That’s according to the NPD Group’s Mat Piscatella.

Piscatella shared a couple of other noteworthy tidbits as well. LEGO is the ninth-biggest video game franchise in history in terms of dollar sales. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, LEGO Batman, and LEGO Star Wars II are the best-selling entries.

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October 2020 NPD: Best-selling games on Switch, year-to-date, last 12 months

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Another round of data is in from this month’s NPD report. Along with the best-sellers on Switch specifically for the month of October 2020, we also have a list of the games year-to-date and have sold the best over the last 12 months. Continue on below for the full results.