The Nintendo Switch 2 has sold 5 million units worldwide in June, according to Nintendo’s official finance site, which is quite staggering.
When checking out Nintendo’s official finance website and clicking quarterly, total console sales in June 2025 include one million Nintendo Switch consoles and a staggering 5 million Switch 2 consoles to make six million total console sales for that month across the board for Nintendo.
For comparison, the PS5 was able to sell 3.4 million units in the first four weeks of release during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first month of sales of the Xbox Series X was not publicly revealed by Microsoft. The Nintendo Switch also sold 15 million units in its first year, so the Switch 2 was able to sell a third of the Switch’s first-year sales in a single month.
To put that number into perspective, Nintendo has been able to sell over one-third of the Wii U’s lifetime sales in a month. The Wii U sold 13.56 million units by the end of its lifetime, and if these figures are to be believed, the Nintendo Switch 2 could outsell the Wii U in three months if these sales patterns continue and stock remains regularly available.
The million Switch 1 sales would also put the Nintendo Switch within one million more sales from the Nintendo DS’s lifetime sales (154.02 million DS sales vs the 153.12 Switch sales), but it’s still far away from the PS2’s record of a lifetime sales total of over 160 million units.
Back to the Switch 2, though, the sales are wild. We are talking about a console that launched within a backdrop of tariffs from the US government and with a singular Nintendo launch title in Mario Kart World. July sees the launch of Donkey Kong Bananaza, and there are a slew of new Nintendo Switch 2 games scheduled for the end of the year that could push console sales further as we get closer to the holiday season, including the launch of Pokémon Legends Z-A and Metroid Prime 4.
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