Switch 2 Had the Biggest Nintendo Launch in the US - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 June 2025 / 6,169 Views
Nintendo in a statement sent to IGN announced the Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling Nintendo hardware launch in the US through the first four days available.
Sales for the Nintendo Switch 2 were also approximately twice that of the Nintendo Switch 1 through the first four days on the market.
This follows the announcement from earlier this week that the Nintendo Switch 2 has sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in its first four days on sale. This is the highest worldwide launch ever for any Nintendo hardware in the first four days available and is the biggest hardware launch in video game history, according to VGChartz estimates.
Reports have shown the Switch 2 has set a record in Japan, France, and Spain for the biggest console launch ever in those countries. It also had the biggest Nintendo launch ever in the UK, but it fell below the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PS4.
VGChartz estimates have the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 selling over 3.5 million units in their sixth week available. However, the two consoles had a staggered launch. It took the original Switch 13 weeks to reach the milestone, the Xbox One 14 weeks, and the Xbox Series X|S 15 weeks.
There is no word yet if the Switch 2 had the biggest US launch in history. The biggest launch is the PS5 with 1.00 million units sold in week one, according to VGChartz estimates.
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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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Strong start thanks to early adopters, sets a good precedent for Nintendo with this level of success despite the higher price. - Which I guess just shows Early adopters don't care about price, they are buying it anyway, they know what they want.
I wouldn't say I didn't care about price... $450 didn't feel great and any higher would have given me pause lol
But my expectation is next gen PS and XB are starting at $550-600 so the NX2 $450 didn't seem as bad by comparison.
It's also the biggest launch for a console in France
Tres bien!! ^^
This dude got downvoted for saying "very good" lmfaooo
But-but-but wIiU…
I've heard Reddit/Gaming is best avoided ATM. They are apparently a bit crabby about that.
Ohhhhh, thanks for letting me know, I will grab the pop corn!
But... Nearly every reddit post on the Steam Deck pages convinced me the Switch 2 was crap and a total failure and to just wait for a Switch 2 emulator
Underpowered, overpriced, under featured, no good launch games, bad backwards compatibility.... ect.
Can't believe I was lied to
PC Gamer is huffing in some serious copium with their articles bashing the Switch 2.
It's still only been a week lol. The pro-extreme people talking junk over this is just as bad as the anti-extreme people talking junk. Both sides are ridiculous. Time will decide this and ONLY time.
PC community will always be bashing on console, It happened since... Console exist.
I loved Nintendo, but this time I don't hestitate to buy Nintendo console on day 1.
Switch 2 still overprice in my country around $550-$600, no official support for Nintendo in case I got drift for the Joycon it will really pisses me off, and I'm not Mario Kart biggest fans. So another month or year should be fine for me.
According to VGC, Switch 1 sold through 507k in the US at launch.
So we're looking at a launch of at least 1.014 million units in the US for Switch 2.
Funny it almost like people decided to take "their" own hard earned money and bought what they enjoyed.
Come on UK. Get it together. You're the only one where Switch 2 wasn't the biggest launch.
It was the biggest "Nintendo" Launch... Just not bigger than PS4/5 and XSX
Shouldn't be a surprise, Nintendo isn't huge out there and inflation has really hit them hard compared to some other countries
The UK figure is actually great. It went from being Switch 1's third best European market to Switch 2's best at launch - it's just that PS5 in particular had an amazing launch there. It would've needed an insane 375% increase over Switch 1 launch to have beaten the PS5 launch; not even Japan had an increase that high.
