[tomwojcik]

Outside Japan, sales are worse than expected. https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-acknowledges-switch-2-...

> Sales figures collated by The Game Business last month showed that U.S. Switch 2 sales over the holiday period were down around 35% versus the Switch 1's first holiday sales performance back in 2017. In the UK, a similar comparison saw Switch 2 lagging Switch 1 by 16%. Even in Nintendo's homeland of Japan, Switch 2 holiday sales couldn't match Switch 1, and were down by 5.5% over the year's final nine weeks.

> In France, 2025's final tally of Switch 2 sales was down by "over 30%" versus the amount Switch 1 notched up back in 2017

[mschild]

Switch 2 is the fastest selling console of all time right now. [0]

They sold more than 17 million units in less than a year. The Wii U only sold 13 million over its entire lifetime. The Switch 1 took 2 years to reach 20 million, and the Switch 2 will very likely reach that number in less than half the time. Nintendo may have expected even higher sales numbers but saying that

> The Switch 2 isn't selling well

is simply not true.

[0] https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-s...