The Nintendo Switch 2 has surpassed 5 million units less than a month from its launch. While Nintendo has not yet officially announced the sales milestone, the company did accidentally share the information on its investor website before quickly taking it down.

The now-deleted post reveals that it took only 26 days for the Nintendo Switch 2 to pass 5 million units worldwide. The company revealed in June that the console sold 3.1 million units within 48 hours of its launch, so the extra few million were picked up throughout the month of June.



To put this into perspective, the PlayStation 5 sold 3.4 million consoles during its first month on the market, but sales slowed down with only the hardware hitting 5 million after two and a half months. The original Switch console sold 2.74 million units in its first month, and it took Nintendo four months to reach 5 million units.

The Switch 2 has already sold more units in Sony’s entire PS5 Digital Edition console lifetime sales in Japan. The data breaks down the Switch 2 global unit sales as follows: America – 1.8 million units, Japan – 1.47 million units, Europe – 1.18 million units, other – 550,000 units.

At the moment, it isn’t clear why Nintendo removed the information from the website. If they announce the sales and they are any different to the “accidental” stats, we’ll share an update.

Nintendo will likely move even more units in the coming months as it plans a massive software push for the console. This month, we have Donkey Kong Bananza, which has been confirmed to be developed by the Super Mario Odyssey team. Then there’s Super Mario Party Jamboree + Jamboree TV in late June.

In August, we have Kirby and the Forgotten Land Switch 2 Edition. There’s also Metroid Prime 4: Beyond this year, Pokémon Legends Z-A in October, and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment before the end of 2025.

Original article on GLITCHED

Written by Marco Cocomello