According to the December NPD, the Nintendo Switch is the best-selling console of 2018 and Red Dead Redemption II is the best-selling game of 2018.
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Nintendo Switch set the record for most units sold and dollars made in a year (PS4 set it in 2015). It’s also the most units sold (since 2010) and dollars made (since 2009) by a single console in December since the Wii set those records. Nintendo’s hybrid console sold 1.77 million units in the month. To demonstrate how much the Switch dominated, the Xbox One was the second best-selling console at 922,000 and the PS4 was third at 797,000.
Overall, hardware sales were up 8% compared to December 2017 at $5.1 billion, the highest amount in a decade.
Entertainment Software Association, the video game industry grew 18% in 2018. In the United States, the industry set the record for $43.5 billion for the year. Within the last decade, the industry has tripled in size with over 220 thousand jobs.
