at the marketshare, the Switch managed to achieve 55 percent of the monthly sales. The PlayStation 4 accounted for 36 percent of the consoles sold, and the Xbox One just nine percent.

PlayStation 4 Monthly Sales: 855,422

Xbox One Monthly Sales: 222,466

Switch Monthly Sales: 1,322,878

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One launched in November 2013, while the Switch launched in March 2017.

As a reminder VGChartz tracks consoles sold to consumers and not units shipped.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitchand five per cent, while the costs of dairy, eggs, bakery goods and cereals are forecast to increase by up to two per cent. Restaurant costs will rise by two to four per cent, the report says.

The study says the sweet spot for food inflation is between one and two per cent, a rate it says is manageable for restaurateurs, grocery stores and consumers.

Sylvain Charlebois, the report's lead author, says he wouldn't be surprised if next year's food inflation surpassed four per cent.

"I think 2016 was volatile and 2017 will be, at the very least, equally as volatile," Charlebois says.

Last year, Charlebois and the University of Guelph's Food Institute, which he was previously affiliated with, predicted food prices would rise this year between two and four per cent