{"id":535049,"date":"2026-01-22T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/535049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:18:10","slug":"nintendo-switch-2-led-december-sales-in-the-u-s-now-at-4-4-million-doubled-switch-1s-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/535049\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch 2 led December sales in the U.S., now at 4.4 million, doubled Switch 1&#8217;s performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Switch-2-December-2025-sales-US.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Switch-2-December-2025-sales-US-656x364.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much has been made of Nintendo Switch 2\u2019s sales during the holiday period, but with the December 2025 Circana U.S. sales report having just been <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/matpiscatella.bsky.social\/post\/3mczdup376s2b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">released<\/a>, it paints a more positive picture.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Nintendo Switch 2 led the hardware market in both unit and dollar sales. The same also goes for 2025 as a whole. Thanks to that, the console helped offset year-on-year declines across other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Total hardware sales for Nintendo Switch 2 in the United States now stand at 4.4 million units. Interestingly, this is almost double the installed base of the original Nintendo Switch on a time-aligned basis.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also encouraging to hear that\u00a0Nintendo Switch 2 is still the fastest-selling video game hardware platform in tracked history. The system is 35 percent ahead of PlayStation 4\u2019s sales pace after seven months in market.<\/p>\n<p>One other interesting note \u2013 the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller was the best-selling accessory of 2025. It had an attach rate to hardware of 24 percent.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t the only piece of news from today\u2019s Circana report. You can also find the top 20 best-selling games of the month <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/best-selling-games-in-the-u-s-for-december-2025-metroid-prime-4-debuts-in-the-top-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much has been made of Nintendo Switch 2\u2019s sales during the holiday period, but with the December 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":535050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[6298,2432,158,1399,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-535049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-npd","tag-sales","tag-technology","tag-top","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115939895229427336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}