Nintendo Switch 2 Breaks Records with Historic Launch Sales
June 11, 2025
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The Nintendo Switch 2 isn’t even a week old yet, but it’s already breaking records and putting in the numbers, coming out on top for not just Nintendo, but for video games as a whole.
In a news release on the Nintendo IR website featuring the first sales announcement since the console was released last week, Nintendo revealed that the Switch 2 sold over 3.5 million units in its first four days on sale. According to the company, this is the fastest-selling Nintendo hardware ever, outpacing the Switch, the Wii, and even the Nintendo DS.
Nintendo Switch 2 consoles in handheld, docked, and tabletop modes. Nintendo Switch 2 consoles in handheld, docked, and tabletop modes. Nintendo
It goes further, though, because according to Niko Partners director of research and insights Daniel Ahmad, it’s also the fastest-selling home video console of all time. As noted by Ahmad, the PlayStation 4 sold 2.1 million units in two weeks, and 4.2 million units in six weeks, while the PS5 sold 4.4 million units in seven weeks. If the Switch 2 continues on pace, it should handily top the PS4 and PS5’s first-month sales.
This makes it not just the best selling Nintendo console in the first 4 days, but the fastest selling home video game console of all time. https://t.co/p0ZEUEHvKt
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) June 11, 2025
It’s no surprise that the Switch 2 is performing well, given the massive success of the original Switch. When Nintendo last reported sales numbers, the Nintendo Switch had sold 152.12 million units over its life, just barely behind the Nintendo DS at 154.02 million units and within distance of the PlayStation 2, which sold over 160 million units before being discontinued.
We thought very highly of the hybrid console, as detailed in our Nintendo Switch 2 review, where we praised it for its build quality, performance, and the improvement to original Switch games, calling it “everything you’d want in a successor and more”:
It’s still early days for the Switch 2, and it remains to be seen what developers will do with the significantly more powerful hardware, and how they’ll adapt PS5 and Xbox Series X|S games to run portably, but early impressions of the console are very positive. It’s a relatively expensive piece of hardware, coming in at $450, but what you’re getting for the price is very impressive, and it’s well worth upgrading to the Switch 2 if you’re even remotely interested in Nintendo games.
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