Gaming giant Nintendo is set to unveil the successor to its phenomenally popular Switch console on Wednesday.

Here are some facts about its success:

Nintendo has sold around 150 million Switch machines since the gadget's launch in March 2017.

That makes it the third best-selling console in video game history, behind Sony's PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo DS.

Nintendo estimates it has sold a colossal 1.3 billion games that run on the console.

The biggest hit by far was "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" (67 million copies sold), followed by "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" which became a must-play during Covid (47 million sold).

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