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(Image credit: Nintendo)The Nintendo Switch 2 was always going to enjoy a big launch - being the anticipated successor to the widly successful Switch, paired with Mario Kart World, the first game in the series in over a decade - but an analyst has now revealed that the console actually broke records in the US.
Over on Bluesky, Circana analyst Mat Piscatella revealed that the "Nintendo Switch 2 set a new all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware in the US, with over 1.1 million units sold during the week ending June 7, 2025." (The Switch 2 came out June 5, by the way.) To make matters even more impressive, that doesn't even include sales made from My Nintendo Store, the loyalty program, so final numbers might even be a little higher.
The previous record holder was the PlayStation 4's launch, according to Piscatella. There aren't any numbers around how well the PS4 did in its own first week in the US, but we do know the console sold around 2.1 million units after its first few weeks on store shelves. To put that into context, Switch 2 sold 3.5 million in just four days.