Switch 2 Sold Over 1.1 Million Units in the US for Launch Week Setting New Record - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 June 2025 / 12,708 Views
Executive Director & Video Game Industry Analyst at Circana (NPD) Mat Piscatella has revealed the Nintendo Switch 2 sold over 1.1 million units in the US in its first three days available. The figures excludes My Nintendo Store.
This is a new record for the biggest launch in terms of unit sales in the US. The record was previously held by the PlayStation 4. It should be noted this is month one PlayStation 4 sales as NPD did do weekly tracking in 2013.
"Nintendo Switch 2 set a new all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware in the US, with over 1.1 million units sold during the week ending June 7, 2025 (excludes sales from the My Nintendo Store), "said Piscatella. "The record was previously held by PlayStation 4."
Piscatella added the initial projection total market for week one are around 1.3 million to 1.35 million units. He will have a better idea in a couple of weeks.
"The record-breaking launch of Nintendo Switch 2 in the US was expected, but that certainly makes it no less impressive or remarkable," he stated. "Initial projection to total market has US week 1 units at around 1.3-1.35M, but of course it will take a couple weeks to know for sure. Helluva great start."
79 percent of Switch 2 buyers also purchased Mario Kart World. This is either via the Mario Kart World bundle or with a physical copy. Digital sales are not included in this figure.
Cyberpunk 2077 was the second best-selling game, followed by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition.
"79% of US Nintendo Switch 2 buyers also purchased Mario Kart World either physically, or as part of the Mario Kart World Switch 2 hardware bundle," said Piscatella.
Nintendo Switch 2 set a new all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware in the US, with over 1.1 million units sold during the week ending June 7, 2025 (excludes sales from the My Nintendo Store). The record was previously held by PlayStation 4.
— Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Awesome to see proper releases like Cyberpunk 2077 doing well.
But the cliff is coming yk
We have a couple of those here now.
So broke all time console record in just about every major market except the UK.
Damn, vgc is infested with console war immaturity. Mods need to do better at this point.
If it were me I would just close comments on sales articles and force it to forums. Every comment is the same damn near. “Sony lied about PS2 sales”, “the cliff is coming for the switch 2”. Just the same console war drivel every news article.
Figured after 20 years vgc would have better mods by now. Other sales based sites are putting an end to the drivel.
Literally popped over to NEOGAF's threads, and to be honest, I think there's more console war drivel there. Also the cliff is kind of just a meme. You're valid on the criticism of people's discussion fo the PS2 though.
Your surprised a site dedicated to tracking "units sold" has a community that cares how many units were sold between different manufacturers???
Not the point, your stupid question proves my point that discussions around here is childish.
If Sony doesn't add to PS4 sales, the record will be in Switch 2.
When DS reached 154 million, PS2, which was stopped in production, was suddenly increased from 155 million to ''more than 160 million'', which can be increased even more in the future.
Are you saying Sony falsified PS2 sales?
Of course, you honestly don't believe a console magically sold 5m units when it hasn't been available for 20 years
You’re forgetting the sales in…. Uh…. the Russian breakaway republic of Kreplakistan!
Kreplakistan is a major market for PS2.
I hear PS2 is still popular in Ivalice and Skyrim.
Figures. Fuck Sony.
You know legally they are not able to do that. They have a reasonability to provide honest data to share holders.
I'm sorry that doesn't fit in with the "Sony Bad" narrative but them's the facts.
No, not really.
In theory people could sue them for putting out false information. But they would have to show that the false information was material and caused some actual harm.
Did anyone decide to invest in Sony based on a five million units adjustment to a 20 year old console? Doubtful. So they can't really sue for any damages.
As for any criminal implications, that would generally apply to actual financial statements.
So, while I have no idea if they were lying, they certainly could have with no real legal risk.
You can technically sue anybody for anything, but no court would take a lawsuit over something like that seriously, nor would any lawyer more reputable than Saul Goodman take such a case. The SEC isn’t going to get excited over it, either.
You can file a lawsuit. But if the lawsuit doesn't show that you suffered some kind of actual damage, it would be rejected.
Nintendo's shareholders cannot sue Sony. Shareholders, in their capacity as shareholders, can file a suit against the board of directors of their company (a derivative lawsuit) but not against another company.
Nintendo could theoretically file a lawsuit against Sony, but in this case, it's hard to see how. Nintendo can still say they have the best selling console. There would be some contradictory information out there, but I don't see how that fits into any category of tortious speech. And even if it is, there is still the matter of demonstrating that Nintendo suffered any real damage.
Sony can say anything but with no proof, not much we could do.
Its more just using common sense.
Why didn't Sony announced the 160m milestone when it was achieved? Why wait for the Switch to get close?
So... Not updating the data for well over a decade was being dishonest to their shareholders?
Got it
I wouldn't accuse Sony of falsifying anything...
But it is super weird they didn't update the numbers for well over a decade then randomly chose to do so right as the Switch caught up lol
With Vgchartz being a sales site and all you'd expect people to not engage in this console warring nonsense, but... no. lol
