Not bad for a dead console.

If there’s one thing that’s true about the Japanese games market, it’s that the nation is obsessed with handheld consoles – which is why the Switch is doing so well in that particular market, not just in terms of shifting millions of units but also in locking out 9 of the 10 best-selling games for 2020.

However, another fact that is equally true about Japan is that it has never really taken to the Xbox family of systems. This is keenly illustrated by the fact that the Nintendo 3DS – a dead console, essentially – managed to out-sell the entire Xbox family of consoles in Japan last year. That includes Xbox Series X, Series S and the original Xbox One (and its related variants, the One S and One X).

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