Remember, those hardware sales are for two weeks combined, so the Switch averaged 84,433 units per week across the two-week period, while the PS5 averaged 40,971.5.
| CourageTCD said: What's the deal with this Week 53 thing in 2017 and 2023? |
Sales trackers occasionally have 53-week years to account for calendar years actually being slightly longer than 52 weeks (which is actually only 364 days, so a year is 52 weeks plus one or two days). Famitsu uses their own system, while Circana/NPD uses the National Retail Federation's calendar, which has 53-week years on occasion. Over the past 30 years we've had 1996, 2001, 2007, 2013, and 2018 as 53-week years, and this year is one as well. Since sales are tracked monthly in the U.S., the NRF assigns the extra week to January, so this month as well as the Januaries in those other years are 5-week sales periods instead of the usual four.
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