Nintendo Switch 2 Breaks Records with 3.5 Million Opening Weekend Sales, Surpassing Switch 1’s First Month by Nearly a Million in Just Four Days

Ugh, so where do I even start? Nintendo just casually dropped some news—like, wham! The new Nintendo Switch 2? Sold 3.5 million in four days. Yes, four whole days. June 5th was the magic day, by the way. Remember when the original Switch showed up in 2017? It felt like yesterday. But this new thing? Blew the old numbers outta the water. Like, 760,000 more units just vanished off shelves.

Apparently, this is the fastest they’ve sold hardware in any four-day span. Wild, right? So now they’re already one-fifth toward hitting that 15 million target by March 2026. Honestly, with this pace, they’ll probably smash that.

But oh, the drama! Get this: some folks at GameStop in New York had, well, a bit of a nightmare. Stapled receipts not just attached to boxes but piercing the screens! I mean, you couldn’t make this stuff up. Of course, they got replacements. Meanwhile, in the UK, boxes everywhere came unsealed. Like, who’s checking this stuff? Broken tape or something.

Oh, and let’s not forget the mad tech specs. Bigger screen—7.9 inches, 1080p, and 120Hz. Joy-Con 2 controllers with optical sensors are doing their best mouse impersonations. Under the hood, it’s got eight of those snazzy ARM Cortex A78C cores and a custom Nvidia Ampere GPU, plus all this storage—12GB of memory and a nice 256GB you can ramp up to 2TB with a microSD. Sounds fancy, right?

Here’s a funny thing—apparently people are already fantasizing about stuffing an M2 NVMe SSD into it. Imagine that! Just screwing around with a console, DIY style.

So, ever thought about nabbing one of these? Even though they’ve been selling like hotcakes, you can still find them if you look hard enough. GameStop or Best Buy, ring any bells? UK’s got a stash too, just in case you’re across the pond.

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