Switch 2 Sells More Than 6 Million in the 7 Weeks Since Launch, Nintendo Says Demand 'Has Surpassed Our Expectations'

Nintendo’s archetypal fiscal study since the motorboat of Switch 2 is in, and it’s smiles each circular for the institution aft record-breaking sales.

Switch 2 has sold much than 6 cardinal units globally successful the 7 weeks since launch, breaking a fig of income records for video crippled consoles. Nintendo said request for Switch 2 is exceeding proviso successful galore countries, and it apologizes to consumers. “We volition proceed to fortify our accumulation and proviso systems to present arsenic overmuch Nintendo Switch 2 hardware arsenic possible,” the institution said.

It’s a fantastic effect for the Switch 2 hardware itself, which is comfortably the fastest-selling successful Nintendo history. Nintendo said request “has surpassed our expectations.” Still, it’s sticking to its forecast of selling 15 cardinal Switch 2 units successful the fiscal twelvemonth ending March 2026.

As for games, Nintendo said Switch 2 bundle income reached 8.67 cardinal units. Launch rubric Mario Kart World made up the bulk of those crippled sales, shifting 5.63 cardinal units (almost arsenic galore arsenic the Switch 2 itself has sold). But it’s worthy noting that fig includes units bundled with the hardware.

The extremity effect is that wide income totaled 572.3 cardinal yen (approx. $3.8 billion), and operating nett grew 4% to 56.9 cardinal yen ($378 million) for the 3 months ending June 30. After each the furore implicit Trump’s tariffs and changing merchandise prices, successful its fiscal study Nintendo said “at this clip determination is nary important interaction connected our net forecast for this fiscal year.”

Interestingly, request for the OG Switch has remained adjacent aft the motorboat of the Switch, and income of the console inched ever higher, and are present astatine 153.1 million. The fig of yearly playing users betwixt July 2024 and June 2025 has remained supra 100 million, which means Nintendo launched Switch 2 into an situation wherever a immense fig of radical were already playing Switch.

Upcoming Switch 2 exclusives see Drag x Drive, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, Kirby Air Riders, and FromSoftware's The Duskbloods. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is owed retired connected the OG Switch and the Switch 2 aboriginal this year.

This week, Nintendo held a Direct showcase focusing connected upcoming games from third-party developers and publishers, including Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection, Octopath Traveler 0, and The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales.

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