June 2025 VGChartz Estimates Thread - Adding Switch 2 - Worldwide Estimates Now Live

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Welcome to the June2025 VGChartz estimates thread, which includes the dates from June 1 to July 5. The articles breaking down June 2025 estimates will be posted in this thread.

You can go to the front page of the site and use the drop down to see the different weekly and monthly sales.

Our coder, Bandorr, is working to add the Nintendo Switch 2 to the hardware areas on the site.

Switch 2 should be visible now here:

• "Weekly" and "Monthly" charts on the front page
• Platform Totals page (https://www.vgchartz.com/charts/platform_totals/Hardware.php/ )
• "Consoles Hardware Sales" bar graph on the front page under "Current"
• Weekly Hardware Comparisons page (https://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_date.php )
• Hardware Year-Over-Year Comparison page (https://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_yoy.php )

If there are other pages it is missing be sure to let us know.

Software wise it has been available on the GameDB since the main Switch 2 Direct - https://www.vgchartz.com/games/games.php?console=NS2

VGChartz Methodology: Hardware estimates are based on retail sampling and trends in individual countries, which are then extrapolated to represent the wider region. This typically allows us to produce figures that end up being within 10% of the actual totals.

This data is regularly compared against official shipment figures released by the console manufacturers and figures estimated by regional trackers with greater market coverage than ourselves. We then update our own estimates to bring them into line with those figures. This can result in frequent changes often within a short space of time, but we feel it's important to prioritise accuracy over consistency.

Note that our estimates are based on sell-through data (units sold to consumers). In almost all cases the figures released by console manufacturers are based on shipment data (sell-in), where as soon as a device has left the factory and entered the supply chain for delivery it is considered a sale. This is why there is always a difference between the companies’ figures (sell-in) and VGChartz estimates (sell-through), even after we’ve made adjustments. The one exception to that is when a console has been discontinued and the remaining stock has finally sold out – at that point the figures will match.

Last edited by trunkswd - on 23 July 2025