Nintendo shipped 6.86 million Switch consoles between July and September this year.The gaming giant has announced that sales increased by more than 40 percent year-on-year, thereby hitting the 68.3 million mark after launching in 2017.The Switch figures also represent an improvement from the previous quarter, when 5.68 million units were shipped.’Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ continues to be hugely popular among gamers, with more than three and a half million units moving in the latest quarter.Other notable successes during the latest quarter included ‘Super Mario 3D All-Stars’ and ‘Paper Mar…