{"id":175655,"date":"2025-06-11T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175655\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:38:09","slug":"nintendos-switch-2-is-the-fastest-selling-game-console-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175655\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo\u2019s Switch 2 is the fastest-selling game console of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo was expecting <\/a>the Switch 2 would be just as successful as the original, and it\u2019s already become the fastest-selling game console of all time after a strong launch. Nintendo revealed today<\/a> that it has sold more than 3.5 million Switch 2 units in the console\u2019s first four days, surpassing records for any of Nintendo\u2019s hardware within the same launch period. But the record is more significant than that.<\/p>\n

Daniel Ahmad, director of research and insights at Niko Partners, points out on X<\/a> that the Switch 2 is \u201cthe fastest selling home video game console of all time.\u201d It took Sony 16 days to sell 2.1 million PS4 consoles, and six weeks to reach 4.2 million units. The Switch 2 has also comfortably beaten the PS5 launch, which debuted during the pandemic and associated chip supply constraints. It took seven weeks for Sony to sell-through 4.4 million PS5 units.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that Nintendo was able to meet pent-up demand for a Switch successor by having ample inventory on hand in key markets. Switch 2 preorders sold out<\/a> across major retailers in the US ahead of the launch, but there was still some limited stock on launch day for those willing to line up at midnight<\/a> or take a chance<\/a> in the morning. The threat of price increases from tariffs likely helped goose initial demand, too.<\/p>\n

While the Switch 2 isn\u2019t the biggest<\/a> UK console launch of all time and it seemed relatively easy for Brits to buy one<\/a> on launch day, it\u2019s still the fourth best-selling console in the UK according to data from NielsenIQ.<\/p>\n

Analysts had widely predicted strong Switch 2 launch sales, despite a lack of launch titles for Nintendo\u2019s latest console. Nintendo\u2019s record-breaking Switch 2 sales are thanks to a lot of pent-up demand waiting on this new hardware, and Nintendo using that time to build enough units to meet demand.<\/p>\n

The original Switch launched in March 2017 and sold 17.79 million units<\/a> in its first 13 months on sale \u2014 more than Nintendo\u2019s own estimates at the time. The Switch has now sold more than 150 million units over its lifetime, pushing it close to overtaking the DS<\/a> as Nintendo\u2019s best-selling console.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo was expecting the Switch 2 would be just as successful as the original, and it\u2019s already become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,1583,12,128,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-175655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nintendo","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114664774395663687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}