Nintendo Switch 2 sales: first record year in sight

Launched in June 2025, the Nintendo Switch 2 console got off to a flying start, selling 5.8 million units worldwide in its first month on sale, compared to 2.7 million for the first Switch over the same period.

Nintendo Switch 2: 20 million units sold in its first year?££££ According to indiscretions collected by the Bloomberg agency, Nintendo aims to produce up to 25 million copies of its machine by March 2026, the end of the company's fiscal year. This is enough to break sales records for this year, reflecting Nintendo's optimism, which expects strong demand during the holiday season, and even beyond. With such a production run, it is estimated that the manufacturer could sell around 20 million consoles this fiscal year, crushing its own conservative estimates of 15 million, and even those of analysts around 18 million.