Switch 2 sold over 3.5 million units, highest level for any Nintendo hardware in first 4 days

Nintendo shares first official sales report for Switch 2 and confirms it's now the company's fastest-selling system ever.

[repsahj]

Congratulations Nintendo. XD

I will wait for Dreamcastguy reaction video, he said that this will flop and no one cares about switch 2.

[Snookies12]

I've got to agree about congratulating Nintendo here... I have been very outspoken about my dislike for Nintendo. I hate on them quite a lot. The Switch 2 has been nothing but phenomenal since I got my hands on it though. It's everything I wanted and more. The only issue is the battery life, but I fully expected that. My gaming laptop dies within 1-2 hours when it's off the cord. When you're pushing out great graphics, at great resolutions with high FPS in handheld. It's bound to drop the battery life quickly.

I will 100% get an OLED model especially if they up the battery life on it. I didn't bother with Switch 1's revision, but Switch 2 has already won me over.

[Soy]

100% same here, except I won't bother with just an OLED upgrade since I play docked 95% of the time. If they up the battery life substantially, then I might be moved...

[Lexreborn2]

It’s great and all to congratulate successful launch in gaming. But can we stop with the false narratives? Like it’s been, “”3 million sold first 24 hours, best console launch sells” “3.5 first 4 days! High demand and supply!”

Then you see people comparing it to ps5, series X and portal sales trying to make it seem like those console launches were bad because they sold out. Even though it was covid and limited components and parts for mass production of the devices.

You can appreciate your devices success without spinning false comparisons. I am personally waiting until donkey Kong drops before considering getting one.

People seemed to forget at one point they made huge excuses against getting a ps5 or Xbox series X because “they just played ps4/xbox games at higher frame rates” but now the switch 2 which literally does the same thing isn’t getting any call outs for that?

This is why I vaguely participate in the gaming community threads because the goal post moving and inability to appreciate all of gaming makes it vastly unappealing discussing with others this medium.

Tl;dr

Congrats on a stable launch, looking forward to more games and how they push this device. Good gaming to all

[Dudububu]

I could quote some people who told it will be a failure or there will be the WII U effect hehe

[Neonridr]

the amount of people who were so certain this thing was going to flop..

[Good-Smurf]

Still too early to tell atm if it's a sure success, there are numerous consoles that came out of the gate running with record breaking sales and then simply lost the steam and came up well short of its previous console.
High game prices and accessories will slowly cripple them over time if Nintendo do nothing about it.
Crazy how many are willing to pay full price for years old game and it's often the worst version to play on, they're just desperate for something to go with a new console and it shows even listing NSO 20-year-old GC games to padding out their launch titles.
Congrats I guess to whomever enjoyed it for new high prices.

[Neonridr]

I paid full price for MK World. The S2 is the only place to play it on. When you can play portably, people are willing to make some sacrifices. It's not like the S2 version is ugly or unplayable, even if it doesn't compare directly to say a PS5 version.

but keep crying.

[MDTunkown]

It probably will outsell WiiU in less than a year

[ZeekQuattro]

It's a given it will and people will be constantly moving goalposts like they had to for the orginal Switch every sales milestone. 😆

[SoloGamer1]

Nintendo is pretty anti-consumer...and with this kind of success, they will continue to give us all the middle finger.

[-Foxtrot]

I don't know why people are disagreeing with this

You can be a fan, but why be a bootlicker to anti consumer practices

If hypothetically the sales were decent but not to Nintendo's expectations with their being a clear united push online against these high price points, Microsoft wouldn't have dared done the same with The Outer Worlds 2 or at least they'd have backtracked pretty quickly. At least then it would have scared others off.

I don't want to see anyone crying on here about future price increases, especially if Rockstar does it if they supported this Day one.

[repsahj]

LOL. Every company is anti-consumer. As if M$ and Sony are not doing the same.

[-Foxtrot]

I didn’t say the others weren’t, the article is about Nintendo, so I’m talking about Nintendo…

I mean I literally mention Microsoft doing the same.

[Cuzizkool]

Wow. Nintendo weren’t kidding when they said they were going to have a lot of stock at launch.

[Chocoburger]

Not bad for a system that launched with only four brand new games, Mario Kart, Rune Factory, Survival Kids, Fast RMX, only one of those games is high profile.

Mario Kart is carrying the Switch 2 on its own. Reminds me of the N64 launch where Mario 64 had to carry the new console on its own (sorry Pilotwings 64!).