Nintendo Switch 2 Has Sold 2 Million Units in the U.S., 75% Ahead of the Switch 1's Pace

The Nintendo Switch 2's 2nd period connected the marketplace was different explosive one, astatine slightest successful the U.S., wherever it surpassed 2 cardinal units sold life-to-date, putting it 75% up of the portion income gait acceptable by the Nintendo Switch 1.

This is according to monthly information from Circana, whose investigation was shared with IGN by Mat Piscatella. Nintendo Switch 2 income successful July were truthful beardown that July hardware spending reached $384 million, the highest July hardware walk since July 2008. The Switch 2 was the best-selling console for the period of July, and unshockingly is the best-selling console successful the U.S. year-to day successful presumption of some portion and dollar sales, surpassing the PlayStation 5. The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller is present the best-selling accessory of the twelvemonth successful some dollar and portion sales.

Already past month, the Nintendo Switch 2 became the fastest-selling crippled console of each clip successful the U.S., surpassing the PlayStation 4. When we asked Piscatella astatine the clip if that meant the Switch 2 could outsell the Switch 1, helium offered a cautious take:

What the motorboat income of Switch 2 chiefly archer america is that they made a batch of Switch 2 to merchantability astatine launch. Lifetime income and motorboat income of a console often bash not correlate, meaning that immoderate consoles with tiny launches ended up doing incredibly good beingness (PS2 lone sold 400k successful its motorboat month) portion others with large launches ended up not doing arsenic good lifetime. Since motorboat period request is seldom satiated by disposable proviso (and it is surely not a large motion erstwhile it is, historically) each we tin truly get a work connected astatine motorboat is the assurance of the shaper to marque truthful galore units available, and the quality of the proviso concatenation to get those units into the market.

But having the biggest motorboat period income for immoderate caller video crippled hardware level is simply a helluva bully start.

On the bundle charts, July was dominated by caller releases. EA Sports College Football 26 debuted astatine No.1 for July and is already the 3rd best-selling crippled of the twelvemonth truthful acold successful presumption of dollar sales. The EA Sports MVP Bundle, which includes some Madden NFL 26 and College Football 26, followed it astatine No.2 for July and No.12 for the year-to-date. Donkey Kong Bananza debuted astatine No.3 for the period of July and No.20 for the twelvemonth truthful acold connected Circana's rankings, contempt Nintendo not sharing integer income data. And Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 debuted astatine No.4 for the period of July.

Xbox was besides well-represented again connected July's monthly charts. Aside from Tony Hawk, Forza Horizon 5 erstwhile again made an quality acknowledgment to its PlayStation release, this clip appearing astatine No.7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was astatine No.5, and Grounded 2 debuted astatine No.8. For Grounded 2, its quality seems mostly based connected its PC release, arsenic it was the best-selling PC crippled of the period successful dollar sales. However, it's obscurity to beryllium recovered connected Xbox's console rankings, apt owed to its Game Pass inclusion and much radical choosing to usage that subscription for the console version. Microsoft besides published 4 of the top-selling games connected some PC (Grounded 2, Tony Hawk, Call of Duty, and Minecraft) and PlayStation (Tony Hawk, Call of Duty, Forza, and Minecraft) this month.

Monster Hunter: Wilds remains the best-selling crippled of the twelvemonth truthful far, and is inactive followed by the Oblivion remaster. Overall bundle spending was up 4% year-over-year to $4.5 cardinal acknowledgment to maturation successful some mobile and non-mobile subscriptions, offsetting a driblet successful console bundle spending.

Total games spending for the period of July was up 5% year-over-year to $5.1 billion.

July 2025 U.S. Top 20 Best-Selling Games:

1. EA Sports College Football 26 (NEW)
2. EA Sports MVP Bundle (2025) (NEW)
3. Donkey Kong Bananza* (NEW)
4. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 (NEW)
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
6. Minecraft*
7. Forza Horizon 5
8. Grounded 2 (NEW)
9. Red Dead Redemption II
10. Grand Theft Auto V
11. MLB The Show 25*
12. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
13. WWE 2K25
14. Elden Ring
15. NBA 2K25
16. Elden Ring: Nightreign
17. Split Fiction
18. EA Sports FC 25
19. Marvel's Spider-Man 2
20. F1 25

* Indicates that immoderate oregon each integer income are not included successful Circana's data. Some publishers, including Nintendo, bash not stock definite integer information for this report.

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