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LurkerJ on 10 June 2025

I did believe it was under priced.



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xl-klaudkil on 10 June 2025

Great sales for the biggest anti consumer console ever.



 

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The_Yoda on 10 June 2025
nismo_33 said:
halil23 said:

Half of those sales are from scalpers, so meh

So like every other relativity recent console release then. 

Wouldn't it be great if Nintendo burnt the scalpers with continued robust availability?



RolStoppable on 10 June 2025
xl-klaudkil said:

Great sales for the biggest anti consumer console ever.

You keep posting this in multiple places, but what exactly is anti-consumer in regards to Switch 2?



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yanis-bnth on 10 June 2025

Switch 2 hate is so forced. The console is powerful enough for a handled and it’s the only handled/hybrid console available.
We don’t want 3 home consoles, 2 is enough. So what’s the issue ?



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jvmkdg on 10 June 2025

I don't know if this is true, I will wait for Nintendo's quarterly report. The forecast is 15 million by the end of the fiscal year, so 3 million in one day seems like too much, and here the Switch 2 hasn't sold out at any moment.



Blood_Tears on 10 June 2025
Mar1217 said:

It sold out here as well during the weekend because there's nothing left at my local electro shops and EB Games. They apparently had a lot of non pre-order stock as well of the bundle.

Fact is it likely sold out in most places while also having a much higher allocation than when the Switch launched. Enthusiasts at least we're waiting for that one and it shows when you've got the stock to match

Edit :

Also considering the report that it sold 400K units in China through a SINGLE online retailer, yes ... I'd believe such a report 

Not sure if you were serious on that last part or it was sarcasm but Daniel Ahmad(ZhugeEX) already cleared that part up.  The retailer (JD) received 400k people register online for interest/pre-order sign ups and that sales data is much lower. 



Mar1217 on 10 June 2025
JWeinCom said:

I would think if this were the case, Nintendo would be crowing about it. I'll wait until they say something.

They are usually pretty mute with hardware milestones usually. 

Blood_Tears said:
Mar1217 said:

It sold out here as well during the weekend because there's nothing left at my local electro shops and EB Games. They apparently had a lot of non pre-order stock as well of the bundle.

Fact is it likely sold out in most places while also having a much higher allocation than when the Switch launched. Enthusiasts at least we're waiting for that one and it shows when you've got the stock to match

Edit :

Also considering the report that it sold 400K units in China through a SINGLE online retailer, yes ... I'd believe such a report 

Not sure if you were serious on that last part or it was sarcasm but Daniel Ahmad(ZhugeEX) already cleared that part up.  The retailer (JD) received 400k people register online for interest/pre-order sign ups and that sales data is much lower. 

You are right, sounds like a similar situation to the one in Japan with the MyNintendoStore preorder situation. 

I simply read the first report that came out and didn't specify that this was only for registration. 

Nonetheless, whatever stock Switch 2 has in China. It's likely sold most of it already. 



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konnichiwa on 10 June 2025

Well we know now that it has the fourth best launch sales in UK behind PS5/PS4 and Xbox series with +160K sales






trunkswd on 10 June 2025

VGChartz UK launch estimates:

  1. PS5: 299,723
  2. PS4: 251,488
  3. XS: 162,724
  4. NS2: Should be over 160K
  5. PS3: 158,069
  6. X1: 151,923
  7. Wii: 102,671
  8. NS: 80,513
  9. X360: 71,789
  10. X1X - We didn't separate sales but have X1 sales at 58,586 its launch week


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