Nintendo Switch 2 Sets Record, Selling Over 3.5 Million Units Globally in First Four Days

[DudeBeFishing]

It kinda funny that Steam doesn't have this problem; if all your kids were using Steam Decks they could just jump between Decks and their games and saves would follow them. But most families have one or fewer Steam Decks while many have more than one Switch, yet Nintendo doesn't make this easy. It used to be easy; when I was a kid if we wanted to play a game at a friend's house we just brought the game and memory card with us and it worked as if it was our own console.

I bet they're missing out on a lot of sales because of it. I remember save swapping with friends. I probably wouldn't have gotten some games if I couldn't.

 

[mrnagant]

Right now to me, it feels like just a Pro model. I haven't really touched mine much. Only a couple hours for MKW.

Wish Nintendo was able to have launched another 1st party exclusive, maybe two. One of them being some IP they haven't touched in a while.

 

[Craptacular]

Right now to me, it feels like just a Pro model. I haven't really touched mine much. Only a couple hours for MKW.

Wish Nintendo was able to have launched another 1st party exclusive, maybe two. One of them being some IP they haven't touched in a while.

They have DK coming out next month.

 

[Vayra86]

It'll blow your mind how expensive games were in the 90s then.
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(That's in 1992 money)

It sucks that games are getting more expensive, but they really are long overdue for a price correction. It's amazing that they've mostly defied inflation for as long as they did, especially with how games have gotten more complex and expensive to develop.

Indie developers show us every day that expensive games are a choice and not necessity.

 

[colossusrageblack]

Interesting reading these comments. I'm holding out for now. Mostly because there's no exclusive content for Switch 2 that interests me at this moment. I was hoping for a next gen Mario Odyssey type of game at launch, but oh well. I've also noticed that as far as new (not rereleased, remastered, or remade) Nintendo exclusive games goes, only Donkey Kong is being released for the rest of 2025. That's just two "new" exclusives for a console. Everything else that is "new" are indie games or smaller titles. Nothing wrong with that, but that's not worth a console. I've already experienced the Switch 2 versions of Switch 1 games. So improved resolution and framerates of games I already own don't really appeal to me. I suppose at this point I may hold out for the OLED version unless a new Mario and a few other titles are released in 2026. That may not matter though since GTA 6 will likely release before them and I'm sure I'll be playing that for the remainder of the year.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

The commentariat here has gotten... let's be kind and say "pretty salty". Every GPU release that costs less than USD600: Worst thing ever. Everything Nintendo does: Worst thing ever. Try to present an alternative take: You're wrong and also stupid.

 

[HOkay]

Throwing in my $0.02, I got one day 1 since there was stock in my local Argos & first impressions were good with the bigger, better screen, better joysticks, better joycon connection mechanism, better performance. Second impressions shortly after were...so now what do I wanna play on it? I totally agree with commenters above that it really feels like they're missing another big first party launch game or two. At the moment it seems like CP2077 is the thing to play on it & I just don't want to buy & play that again.

I bought in day 1 because I know there will be so many killer exclusive games over the next few years, & the price of the console won't drop for a long time, so it makes sense for me to get the maximum time with it imho, since I'd buy one sooner or later.

Btw the background noise filtering on GameChat is incredible, it's gotta be using the Nvidia background noise rejection tech which I can't remember the name of. The voice quality isn't great, but that hardly matters for casually chatting to friends, it's more important to me that I can hear them all the time than it be top quality. My friend ran his vacuum whilst talking to me & I couldn't hear it at all & his voice barely changed. It's also actually usable from across the room.

One more. The GameShare thing is cool & has a lot of potential, but a pathetic game support list so far. I'd not heard anything about it until I tried it today, it's sort of like Steam's Remote Play Together thing, but sadly a game needs to be made / updated for it, it's not done at the console OS level. For those unfamiliar, it lets another person on another Switch join your game without them needing a copy or to download the game - since it's a video stream to their console with their button presses coming back to the host Switch 2. It's such a shame Mario Kart World doesn't support it as that would be amazing for playing a few races with some friends. Oh the feature also works over GameChat, so you can have friends play your game with you remotely. Not ground breaking, but since it requires games to be built / updated for it that means you could theoretically do asymmetric gameplay / the second screen doesn't necessarily need to display a copy of the first. That could make for some very cool gaming experiences if developers choose to use it!

 

[phints]

How did this joke of a console sell even 1 let alone millions? Has no games, overpriced, underpowered, ancient lithography. Made by a company that sues their fans. Reselling old games that still run better on Ryujinx. Steam Deck OLED destroys it for handheld, and console or PC destroys it for regular gaming. Hard pass.

 

[freeagent]

This family right here is not buying one. My youngest is a bit disappointed but one day he will learn that life is full of disappointment.

 

[Baba]

The launch titles were SNES with Super Mario World and N64 with Super Mario 64. N64 did a great job staggering their notable releases. Probably my favorite console of all time.

Super Mario 64 Nintendo September 29, 1996
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire LucasArts December 3, 1996
Mario Kart 64 Nintendo February 10, 1997
Star Fox 64 Nintendo June 30, 1997
GoldenEye 007 Nintendo August 25, 1997
Yoshi's Story Nintendo March 10, 1998
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Nintendo November 23, 1998
Mario Party Nintendo February 8, 1999
Super Smash Bros. Nintendo April 26, 1999
Mario Party 2 Nintendo January 24, 2000
Perfect Dark Nintendo May 22, 2000
Mario Tennis Nintendo August 28, 2000
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Nintendo October 26, 2000
Paper Mario Nintendo February 5, 2001
Mario Party 3 Nintendo May 6, 2001

Gamecube did not have a Mario launch title game. Wii U did. Switch did not but it had a Zelda and Mario Kart games.

Switch 2 launch games are not bad at all unless you already played them on Switch or PC.

Launch lineup:

Mario Kart World
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Nintendo GameCube - Nintendo Classics
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
F-Zero GX
SOULCALIBUR II
Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Deltarune Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
Split Fiction
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition
Street Fighter 6 - Official Years 1-2 Edition
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Sid Meier's Civilization VII - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Hogwarts Legacy
Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
Yakuza 0 Director's Cut
Fortnite
Fast Fusion
Hitman World of Assassination - Signature Edition
Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition
Survival Kids
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
Arcade Archives 2 RIDGE RACER
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S

Further releases for 2025.
July 17 Donkey Kong Bananza

July 18 Shadow Labyrinth – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

July 24 Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV

July 25 No Sleep for Kaname Date — From AI: The Somnium Files
Wild Hearts S

July 31 Ys X: Proud Nordics

August 14 Madden NFL 26

August 21 Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road

August 27 Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

August 28

Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World

September 4 Star Wars Outlaws

September 5 Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion

September 12 Borderlands 4

October 16 Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

October 30 Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake

2026

Enter the Gungeon 2
Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions
The Duskbloods.
EA Sports FC.
EA Sports Madden NFL.
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade.
Hades II.
Human Fall Flat 2.
NBA 2K25.
Project 007.
WWE 2K

 

[Squared]

Throwing in my $0.02, I got one day 1 since there was stock in my local Argos & first impressions were good with the bigger, better screen, better joysticks, better joycon connection mechanism, better performance. Second impressions shortly after were...so now what do I wanna play on it? I totally agree with commenters above that it really feels like they're missing another big first party launch game or two. At the moment it seems like CP2077 is the thing to play on it & I just don't want to buy & play that again.

I bought in day 1 because I know there will be so many killer exclusive games over the next few years, & the price of the console won't drop for a long time, so it makes sense for me to get the maximum time with it imho, since I'd buy one sooner or later.

Btw the background noise filtering on GameChat is incredible, it's gotta be using the Nvidia background noise rejection tech which I can't remember the name of. The voice quality isn't great, but that hardly matters for casually chatting to friends, it's more important to me that I can hear them all the time than it be top quality. My friend ran his vacuum whilst talking to me & I couldn't hear it at all & his voice barely changed. It's also actually usable from across the room.

One more. The GameShare thing is cool & has a lot of potential, but a pathetic game support list so far. I'd not heard anything about it until I tried it today, it's sort of like Steam's Remote Play Together thing, but sadly a game needs to be made / updated for it, it's not done at the console OS level. For those unfamiliar, it lets another person on another Switch join your game without them needing a copy or to download the game - since it's a video stream to their console with their button presses coming back to the host Switch 2. It's such a shame Mario Kart World doesn't support it as that would be amazing for playing a few races with some friends. Oh the feature also works over GameChat, so you can have friends play your game with you remotely. Not ground breaking, but since it requires games to be built / updated for it that means you could theoretically do asymmetric gameplay / the second screen doesn't necessarily need to display a copy of the first. That could make for some very cool gaming experiences if developers choose to use it!

For what it's worth, I've never tried a game share thing like you described but I can't help but think that Mario Kart wouldn't do well streamed to another device as the game benefits from low latency. I treat Mario Kart very competitively though so I my thoughts might not fit the experience many other people would have with it.

 

[HOkay]

For what it's worth, I've never tried a game share thing like you described but I can't help but think that Mario Kart wouldn't do well streamed to another device as the game benefits from low latency. I treat Mario Kart very competitively though so I my thoughts might not fit the experience many other people would have with it.

Oh for competitive play it'd be trash yes! But for a casual race with friends or family the latency might be just about acceptable. The various cloud streaming services have got latency down to acceptable levels so I'd imagine Nintendo could get close to that. Still definitely not for competitive play though yes.
It'll also depend on both sides having good, low ping Internet.

 

[evernessince]

Switch 2 launch games are not bad at all unless you already played them on Switch or PC.

Launch lineup:

Mario Kart World
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Nintendo GameCube - Nintendo Classics
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
F-Zero GX
SOULCALIBUR II
Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Deltarune Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
Split Fiction
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition
Street Fighter 6 - Official Years 1-2 Edition
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
Sid Meier's Civilization VII - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Hogwarts Legacy
Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster
Yakuza 0 Director's Cut
Fortnite
Fast Fusion
Hitman World of Assassination - Signature Edition
Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition
Survival Kids
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
Arcade Archives 2 RIDGE RACER
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S

Your bar for bad must be very low because that's the worst launch title list I've ever seen. The only actual launch game here is Mario Kart World.

The other listed games have been available for a while now. Worse, they have the gull to charge you for the console tutorial and re-released titles "upgraded" to take advantage of the newer hardware. Upgraded in quotes of course, because they are charging you for something that the hardware itself already enables with no effort on the part of Nintendo. On PC, when you buy a new GPU you aren't charged per game to be able to use that GPU's power and it's crazy to me that anyone would find such a thing acceptable.


It's not like there's a ton of Nintendo games right around the corner either.

 

[HOkay]

Worse, they have the gull to charge you for the console tutorial and re-released titles "upgraded" to take advantage of the newer hardware. Upgraded in quotes of course, because they are charging you for something that the hardware itself already enables with no effort on the part of Nintendo. On PC, when you buy a new GPU you aren't charged per game to be able to use that GPU's power and it's crazy to me that anyone would find such a thing acceptable.


It's not like there's a ton of Nintendo games right around the corner either.

It does suck that you have to pay for the upgrades, but I don't think they're completely zero effort for developers. Some will do more than others ofc, but even the bare minimum probably still needs a few simple code changes, even if it's just to change the framerate target variable from 30 to 60

 

[Baba]

Your bar for bad must be very low because that's the worst launch title list I've ever seen. The only actual launch game here is Mario Kart World.

The other listed games have been available for a while now. Worse, they have the gull to charge you for the console tutorial and re-released titles "upgraded" to take advantage of the newer hardware. Upgraded in quotes of course, because they are charging you for something that the hardware itself already enables with no effort on the part of Nintendo. On PC, when you buy a new GPU you aren't charged per game to be able to use that GPU's power and it's crazy to me that anyone would find such a thing acceptable.


It's not like there's a ton of Nintendo games right around the corner either.

I've bough plenty of remastered games in my life and don't think it's unreasonable to charge for it. Witcher 3, Dead Space, Demon's Souls, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Resident Evil series, Last of Us, etc. No one works for free. You get what you pay for. You're really complaining about $10? My coffee costs $10.

I was giving an example of their staggered releases. I don't need all the games to release at launch. Some people like myself didn't play the two Zelda games yet. I've also heard of low frame rate issues with them so this is great to play them on a more powerful system and with improved resolution to boot. In July, there is Mario Pary and Donkey Kong. I literally listed all the games coming out in 25. If that's not enough for you, move on.

 

[evernessince]

I've bough plenty of remastered games in my life and don't think it's unreasonable to charge for it. Witcher 3, Dead Space, Demon's Souls, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Resident Evil series, Last of Us, etc.

These aren't remaster we are talking about. FYI, most of the recent resident evil games are remakes, not remasters. Not that it matters given the switch 2 upgrades aren't remasters and henece aren't labeled as such.

No one works for free. You get what you pay for. You're really complaining about $10? My coffee costs $10.

I suppose you forgot the part where people bought the console for $450 - $500+ and the base game in order to get that better performance / graphics?

Implying they got it for free is beyond asinine.

I was giving an example of their staggered releases. I don't need all the games to release at launch. Some people like myself didn't play the two Zelda games yet. I've also heard of low frame rate issues with them so this is great to play them on a more powerful system and with improved resolution to boot. In July, there is Mario Pary and Donkey Kong. I literally listed all the games coming out in 25. If that's not enough for you, move on.

Games? You mean game, singular. Mario Kart World is the only first party Nintendo game switch 2 one right now.

Yes, you did list all games coming out and it's sad. Mostly ports and paid "upgrades". It just proves my point that this lineup is the worst I've ever seen.

It does suck that you have to pay for the upgrades, but I don't think they're completely zero effort for developers. Some will do more than others ofc, but even the bare minimum probably still needs a few simple code changes, even if it's just to change the framerate target variable from 30 to 60

They should be free because Nintendo sells consoles off the back of these. People still have to buy the base game, they are just putting an additional paywall in order for you to even use the hardware you already paid for.

 

[Craptacular]

They should be free because Nintendo sells consoles off the back of these. People still have to buy the base game, they are just putting an additional paywall in order for you to even use the hardware you already paid for.

Most of the upgrades are free, the only ones that cost money are the legend of Zelda bow and totk, Kirby dreamland, super mario party jam, and one or two other games.

Everything else that Nintendo has done free patches for resolution and performance. Splatoon 3 just got a patch for a free resolution and performance upgrade on switch 2. Super Mario 3d all stars has also received a free update increasing resolution, framerate, and adding hdr.

Nintendo Just Dropped Info on a Bunch of Switch 1 Games That Are Getting Free Performance Upgrades on Switch 2 - IGN

Nintendo has published a list of Switch 1 games that will get a free performance upgrade on Switch 2, and revealed what fans can expect in terms of improvements.

www.ign.com

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Did anyone... Actually think the switch 2 was going to crash and burn out of the gate?

The masses shut up and buy, they don't care what a bunch of dweebs on some no name internet forum think.

The masses will also then go on and elect undemocratic fascists because their shit got too expensive while continuing to consume the same overly expensive low quality shit. Don't assign too much throught or agency to this kind of thing.

 

[evernessince]

Did anyone... Actually think the switch 2 was going to crash and burn out of the gate?

The masses shut up and buy, they don't care what a bunch of dweebs on some no name internet forum think.

The masses will also then go on and elect undemocratic fascists because their shit got too expensive while continuing to consume the same overly expensive low quality shit. Don't assign too much throught or agency to this kind of thing.

Unfortunately people let themselves get invested emotionally into a brand and defend it as if an insult to the brand is an insult to themselves (hint, it's not unless you choose to take it that way)

As always, this meme is appropriate:

 

[Arco]

Most of the upgrades are free, the only ones that cost money are the legend of Zelda bow and totk, Kirby dreamland, super mario party jam, and one or two other games.

Everything else that Nintendo has done free patches for resolution and performance. Splatoon 3 just got a patch for a free resolution and performance upgrade on switch 2. Super Mario 3d all stars has also received a free update increasing resolution, framerate, and adding hdr.

Nintendo Just Dropped Info on a Bunch of Switch 1 Games That Are Getting Free Performance Upgrades on Switch 2 - IGN

Nintendo has published a list of Switch 1 games that will get a free performance upgrade on Switch 2, and revealed what fans can expect in terms of improvements.

www.ign.com

Holy moly, free updates to resolution, framerate, and even hdr?

We have that, its called changing settings.

 

[Caring1]

3.5M sold, I didn't thing there was that many content creators buying them, but I could be wrong, it happened once before, but I might be mistaken.