I’ve had a busy week writing about various Nintendo things, and over the last few days, I’ve written about the potential huge success of the Nintendo Switch 2. We’ve slowly gotten numbers and estimates about how much the console has sold, and there were some BIG numbers being thrown out. Tonight, though, The Big N themselves revealed the official number. The Switch 2 sold 3.5 million units in its first four days on the market! Pretty cool, huh? That not only makes it the biggest console launch in Nintendo history, but the biggest gaming launch in history in many respects.
We aren’t saying “the biggest” just yet because of how it needs to cross 4.5 million units within the first two months, but at the pace it’s currently going? It may not take long to do so. It’s also fair to say it broke the “one million in a single day” goal, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Either way, that’s a huge success, and what will be just as interesting is hearing about how much Mario Kart World sold in these first four days, too. After all, it was the “killer app” for the Nintendo Switch 2, and other nations posted that it had an incredibly high attach rate with the system upon sale.
Another thing to note here is that this is just the “first four days,” which means last Thursday-Sunday. So with each day that passes, including the now two days that number didn’t factor in, the Switch 2 sales grow. And with every new game Nintendo announces for the Switch 2, more people will want in on the system, and the sky, potentially, is the limit.
