Switch 2 Sold 30,000 Units at UK Retailer Currys at Midnight Launch, 'Biggest Gaming Pre-Order Ever' - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 June 2025 / 8,148 Views
The Nintendo Switch 2 is officially available across Europe, Asia, and Oceania and the first bit of sales figures have come in.
UK retailer Currys told the BBC it has sold 30,000 Switch 2 consoles during the midnight launch.
The retailer says the the Switch 2 had the "biggest gaming pre-order ever" and the there has been "incredible excitement" at launch.
Some shops have Switch 2 units available to buy off the shelf, however, the majority of customers already had it pre-ordered in advance.
The Nintendo Switch 2 is available for $449.99 USD / $629.99 CAD / £395.99 / €469.99 / 49,800 yen, while the Mario Kart World bundle is priced at $499.99 USD / $699.99 / £429.99 / €509.99 / 53,980 yen.
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Switch 1 : 80k on a weekend in the UK.
Switch 2 : 30K in only one retailer after few hours
80k are the Switch1 launch numbers?
The Calm before the storm.
Storm?
30k from one retailer at midnight is unbelievable. Wow!
One retailer? As in one location?
I think it means across all the curry's branches. There's lot's across the UK. I know because I live here
^As HP said: Not one single store. Curry’s is a retailer. (It’d be insane if one store had 30k Switch 2 systems stockpiled for midnight launch lol!)
One year in. That's the soonest you should pay attention to sales. Two years, and you'll know for sure what this console is going to do. Case in point? Dreamcast. When it launched, it broke all records... and we all know how that story ended (obviously the S2 is not the Dreamcast; just making a point).
You can even use nintendo platforms as examples. Wii u's successful launch and then later collapse or even the 3ds launch and much faster shocking collapse.
Jesus. It's the "cliff" BS again.
The Dreamcast was launched by a company that was already on life support from its owner's personal bank account, and most people were waiting for the PS2, whose launch blew the Dreamcast's launch out of the water. Sega also failed to secure a lot of key developers and didn't really have a strong slate of in-house games either at launch or coming down the pike. The Wii U was a fundamentally botched idea that was again overshadowed by the PS4. Neither of those conditions exists with the Switch 2.
Neither of you are making much of a point here, you're just unneccessarily dooming.
Urging people to wait until they at least get through half the movie before reviewing/judging it is not the same as telling them the movie sucks after the opening credits. This is not "dooming". This is a call for patience and rational.
Was not expecting to get numbers so fast
Nice!!
Yh all to scalpers. I can see them on ebay now with the retailer 'curry's receipts.
