While it hasn't quite reached the same levels as the PS5 during the pandemic, despite Nintendo's best efforts, the Switch 2 has been in such high demand during the launch window that the console has often been hard to find. Even though they're starting to pop up in the wild more often, Nintendo isn't taking its foot off the gas. In fact, it will reportedly do the opposite.
That's according to new data shared by Bloomberg. The site claims Nintendo is pushing Switch 2 manufacturers to produce a whopping 25 million consoles before the end of the current fiscal year on March 31, 2026. That's reportedly due to a revised figure that now has analysts expecting Nintendo to have sold 20 million Switch 2 consoles by that date.
Analysts expect the Switch 2 to sell 20 million units by March 2026
If correct, it clearly means that the Switch 2 is not only selling even better than we all thought, but better than Nintendo could have possibly imagined. Analysts initially estimated that Nintendo would sell 17.6 million Switch 2s by the end of the console's first year on the market. For that number to have jumped by such a large margin – more than 13 percent – means Nintendo's latest console is flying off the shelves even faster than anyone could have imagined.
The original figure of 17.6 million may seem a little conservative compared to how well the original Switch performed in its first fiscal year. The Switch 2's predecessor, which will almost certainly become Nintendo's best-selling console ever once it overtakes the Nintendo DS, sold 17.79 million consoles in its first fiscal year.
Since the Switch had to deal with picking up the pieces after the Wii U, but the Switch 2 has the advantage of riding the wave generated by the original Switch, the latest console surpassing this benchmark of 17.79 million seems like a given. The most important difference is the extra quarter the first Switch got to play with. It launched in March 2017, giving it a full year to increase those tax numbers. The Switch 2 launched in June, giving it just nine months.
That just makes all of this even more impressive and paints a very promising future for the Switch 2's future. While there will still have been plenty of people who stuck with their original Switches, especially with big releases like Pokemon Legends: ZA being a multi-generational title, it just means that, like the previous console, there will be a steady flow of newcomers eventually picking up the Switch 2 over the coming years. Nintendo just needs to do everything it can to ensure supply meets demand, and that seems to be about as much as it can be.
- Stamp
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Nintendo
- Original release date
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June 5, 2025
- Original MSRP (USD)
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$449.99
- Operating system
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Proprietary
- Resolution
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1080p (handheld) / 4K (docked)
- HDR support
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Yes
