Nintendo Switch had its best week of sales even though it's almost 3 years old now

Yoshi, you impress us... Founded 130 years ago in Kyoto, Japan, as a playing card company, Nintendo is still having fun. Its latest video game console "Switch" (which doubles as a Game Boy-type portable device and game played on your home TV) had its best week of sales ever in the USA.

• 830K Switch and Switch Lite units were sold in the US in the 7 days around Thanksgiving.
• That brings the total number of Switches sold to 41M globally — that's just short of Super Nintendo's record of 49M (back when eating Gushers was a thing).

Nintendo is like a fine Cabernet... It's weird that sales jumped to their highest level after almost 3 years since Switch went on the market. Most tech products lose popularity over time, but Nintendo's Switch vintage seems to get better with age. The latest models from the three-opoly of gaming help explain why:

• Sony's PlayStation 4 debuted in 2013.
• Microsoft's XBox One also debuted in 2013.
• Nintendo Switch's greatest strength is its relative newness: it debuted in 2017.