Nintendo Switch 2 Breaks Records with 3.5 Million Sales in Opening Weekend, Surpassing Switch 1’s First Month by Nearly a Million in Just Four Days

Nintendo just dropped the Switch 2, and man, it shattered some records like nobody’s business. It’s like, bam! 3.5 million units sold worldwide in just four days. I mean, that’s wild, right? Compare that with the original Switch, which sold less in its first month back in 2017. Oh, fun fact: that’s 760,000 more units sold than the original in the same time frame. So yeah, pretty epic stuff.

So, Nintendo’s basically over the moon, saying it’s like the craziest sales for any of their hardware in just four days. They’re aiming for 15 million sales by March 2026, which seems like a cakewalk now. Nothing’s ever perfect though, right? There were some hiccups at launch. Like, folks at a GameStop in New York were kind of shocked (ha, see what I did there?) when the staples used to attach receipts to the box were actually piercing the screen. Oops. But hey, they got replacements, so crisis averted.

Then you’ve got the UK side of things, where customers were seeing boxes that looked tampered with because the tape sealing them was all messed up. Talk about a tape fail! Anyway, despite those little nightmares, the Switch 2 is kinda cool with its upgrades. The Joy-Con 2 controllers now have these optical sensors, letting you aim and scroll like you’re using a mouse, which is neat.

It’s got this bigger screen — 7.9 inches, 1080p, and a 120Hz refresh rate. And under the hood, it’s all teched out with eight ARM Cortex A78C cores and a custom Nvidia Ampere GPU. Let’s not forget the 12GB memory and 256GB of storage, upgradable up to 2TB with a microSD Express slot. Imagine that! Someone even said you could theoretically hack it for M2 NVMe SSDs. Crazy, right?

So yeah, despite folks snatching them up, the Nintendo Switch 2 is still lurking around in stores like GameStop and Best Buy. Even across the pond, they’re not hard to find. If you’re looking to keep up with every twist and turn, Tom’s Hardware’s got you covered. Just hit follow on Google News, and you’re all set.