Here's how much The Witcher Netflix series boosted Witcher game sales

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It wasn't just because of the new Switch version, either

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The Witcher Netflix series has been a hit, and even though it's not an adaptation of the games, sales data proves that The Witcher 3 is still feeling the love.

The Netflix series debuted on December 20, 2019, more than four years after The Witcher 3 first arrived and two months after it hit Nintendo Switch. According to a new report from market research firm The NPD Group, The Witcher 3's sales were up 554 percent in December 2019 compared to December 2018.

Even if you exclude the new Switch version, The Witcher 3 sales on other platforms were still up 63 percent. That's a nice jump for a game that's almost half a decade old. We also ranked The Witcher 3 as No. 2 in our list of the best games of the decade in December. Just saying.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.