Nintendo Switch 2 Breaks Record with 3.5 Million Opening Weekend Sales, Surpassing Switch 1’s First Month by Nearly a Million

Wow, okay, so here’s a wild ride I wasn’t expecting. Nintendo decided to surprise everyone by blowing past some kinda sales record with their new gizmo, the Switch 2. Imagine this: 3.5 million units flying off shelves quicker than donuts in a police station. Only four days in and it’s already clobbered what the original did way back in 2017. Like, literally 760,000 more. Wrap your head around that.

And hey, just so you know, this isn’t me reading off a press release. It’s more like staring at a car chase with popcorn—confusing but intense. Anyway, Nintendo’s now a good chunk closer to reaching their mega-million sales goal for next year. March 2026, to be precise. Time flies when you’re having fun, or so they say.

But hold on, not everything’s sunshine and rainbows. Remember, humans were involved. At a New York GameStop, a couple of folks gave it a good shot at creating some drama. How? By jamming staples (for love of Pete) through screens when attaching receipts. I know, right? But don’t worry, they fixed it up by handing out new consoles. Crisis averted.

Meanwhile, on the other side of this watery planet, UK retailers sent folks into a tizzy when boxes showed up looking like they’d been rummaged through by overly ambitious squirrels. Unsealed chaos due to some flimsy tape issue, it seems. Ah, tape woes. Who knew?

Still, folks seem to love it. This Switch 2 thingamabob’s got fancy Joy-Con 2 controllers. They’re basically like those high-tech mice you pretend to know how to use. Handy for aiming and scrolling, or whatever it is people do. And the screen? It’s huge! Well, 7.9 inches huge, with all the pixels you can shake a stick at.

Now, peek inside this beauty, and it’s like reading the ingredients on a cereal box for tech nerds. Eight ARM Cortex A78C cores—whatever that means. GPU from Nvidia—because of course. Plus a hearty 12GB memory with storage as roomy as grandma’s attic. Some even figured out you could jerry-rig an M2 NVMe SSD in there. Don’t ask me how—I spend enough time trying to figure out how plugs work.

Despite Nintendo’s initial speedfest, you can still snag one of these bad boys at GameStop or Best Buy. Even across the UK, they’re around. Stock up before someone glues more receipts to them.

And if you’re into staying in the loop with all this tech wizardry, give Tom’s Hardware a whirl for the latest scoop. Like, seriously, it’s more fun than guessing which end of the HDMI cable goes where.