Four months after its release, the Nintendo Switch 2 is indeed the huge success its manufacturer expected, with new supporting figures recently released.
Since its launch month last June, the Nintendo Switch 2 had known a truly explosive startwith more than 6 million units sold worldwide, according to initial figures. Four months later, new figures reach us from Circana via Mat Piscatella on Bluesky, which however focus on the American market as of August 2025. While waiting for more global data, we note, however, that Big N’s new console continues to be a huge hit.
Figures still good for the Nintendo Switch 2
Given Nintendo’s aura among the general public, and despite a more expensive entry ticket than that of its big sister at the time, we suspected that the Nintendo Switch 2 was going to sell well. Already when it was released in June, it indeed knew the best console launch in history. Even if the initial enthusiasm has since died down somewhat, in particular due to a catalog of games which is currently expanding rather slowly, Big N’s hybrid machine visibly continues to drive the hardware market.
In any case, this is what we see with a report from Circana published very recently, which focuses on the American market as of August 2025. We learn that, in Uncle Sam’s country, the Nintendo Switch 2 is for the third consecutive month the best-selling systemwith a total of 2.4 million units sold between its launch and August 30, 2025 on US soil. In opposition, the sales of PS5, Xbox Series and Switch 1 showed a double-digit percentage drop in terms of salesmost certainly due to their relative seniority. On its own, the Nintendo Switch 2 thus allows the sale of hardware to experience an increase of 32% in the United States compared to August 2024.
For comparison, Circana says that, with 2.4 million units sold, the Nintendo Switch 2 exceeds 2.2 million PS4 in the three months after its release. Elle also completely outperforms the Switch 1 over the same time range, by 77%. So, despite a price 130 euros higher than that of its prestigious big sister, the Nintendo Switch 2 is doing very well, at least in the United States. It now remains to be seen whether the observation is the same in other regions of the globe.
Source: Circan via Mat Cucatella in Bluesky
