{"id":183156,"date":"2025-06-14T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183156\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:11:11","slug":"switch-2-sets-all-time-launch-record-for-video-game-hardware-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183156\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 Sets “All-Time” Launch Record For Video Game Hardware In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nintendo<\/a>Image: Zion Grassl \/ Nintendo Life<\/p>\n

Following Nintendo’s news about the Switch 2 becoming the “fastest-selling Nintendo hardware” ever in the US<\/a>, we’ve now got some numbers to go with it, courtesy of Circana\u2019s analyst Mat Piscatella.<\/p>\n

According to Piscatella, this is an “all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware in the US”, with “over 1.1 million units sold” (week ending June 7, 2025). The previous record was held by Sony’s PlayStation 4, and the sales calculated here for the Switch 2 exclude My Nintendo Store purchases.<\/p>\n

Additionally, 79% of US buyers purchased the Switch 2 exclusive launch title Mario Kart World<\/a> on release \u2013 either physically or as part of the system bundle.<\/p>\n

On the software front, Mario Kart World is leading Switch 2 physical game sales in this same location, followed by CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077<\/a> in second place, and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Switch 2 Edition<\/a> in third. Unsurprisingly, the new Mario Kart has dominated software sales<\/a> on the Switch 2 in other regions in the first week.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Nintendo officially announced the Switch 2 had sold “over 3.5 million units globally”<\/a> in its first four days, making it the “highest global sales level for any Nintendo hardware” ever in this amount of time.<\/p>\n

Did you pick up the Switch 2 and a copy of Mario Kart World in launch week? Tell us in the comments.<\/p>\n

[source bsky.app<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Zion Grassl \/ Nintendo Life Following Nintendo’s news about the Switch 2 becoming the “fastest-selling Nintendo hardware”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2487,128,270,300,53,16,15,978],"class_list":{"0":"post-183156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-mario-kart-world","9":"tag-nintendo","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-north-america","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114680475480127412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183156","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=183156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}