Nintendo Switch 2 moves 3.5 million units worldwide in first four days

Nintendo has announced that the Nintendo Switch 2 has sold 3.5 million units around the globe in the first four days on sale. This means it is now the fastest selling Nintendo console globally, ever.

The original Nintendo Switch sold 2.7 million back in March 2017, over three weeks of sales.

“In addition to upgraded features, Nintendo Switch 2 offers new ways for people to connect and play together,” said Takuro Horie, Managing Director of Nintendo Australia. “We are grateful for the response it has already received, and we hope players will continue to enjoy the new experiences offered.”

Unfortunately there’s no local Australian and New Zealand figures like we got with the original Switch.

To compare the PlayStation 5 sold 4.5 million units in its first 6 weeks on sale, so did the PlayStation 4. This means the that Nintendo Switch 2 is now the fastest selling console, from any manufacturer – of all time.

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto, Minami-ku, Japan; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa, “Nintendo” hereafter) announced that its new game system, Nintendo Switch 2, sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in the four days following its release on June 5, 2025^*. This is the highest global sales level for any Nintendo hardware within the first four days.

Nintendo Switch 2 is the successor to Nintendo Switch and features a larger, more responsive screen and new magnetic Joy-Con 2 controllers, with more powerful processing and graphics performance that opens the door to new ways to play. With the system’s new GameChat feature, players can voice or video chat—or share their game screen—with friends online while playing a game with a simple press of the new C Button on the Joy-Con 2 controller^**.

The lineup includes Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World Set, which comes with a Nintendo Switch 2 Japanese-Language System (Japan Only) and a digital version of Mario Kart World, a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive game released on the same day as the system. This is an affordably priced offer for those considering the purchase of both the system and the game.

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Source: Nintendo IR