China is Nintendo’s secret weapon at war with PlayStation, Xbox

News Highlights: China is Nintendo’s secret weapon at war with PlayStation, Xbox

Animal Crossing on a Nintendo Switch game console.

Photographer: Chona Kasinger / Bloomberg

Photographer: Chona Kasinger / Bloomberg

On the first anniversary of its official launch in China, Nintendo Co.’s Switch can already call itself the sales champion in a gaming arena that has historically shunned consoles from superpowers like Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

The Switch, which is distributed in the country by entertainment titan Tencent Holdings Ltd., has sold more than 1.3 million copies this year through both legal and gray market channels, according to market tracker Niko Partners. That’s nearly double the combined sales of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One over the period, pushing up Chinese sales of the Switch in China to …

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