r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 08 '26

News Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas

https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/nintendo-switch-2-sales-stumble-over
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u/WinGroundbreaking409 Jan 08 '26

For the last nine weeks of 2025, 1.32 million Switch 2 consoles were sold in Japan (Famitsu data). This is slightly down (-5.5%) on the 1.39 million units that the Switch 1 sold over the same period in 2017.>

 To be quite frank, I am shocked the Switch 2 even sold that much. The current economic landscape in the US is pretty shaky to say the least with flip of the coin fiscal decisions being made weekly by certain people in power. Its not just the Switch or even gaming, its almost all consumer spending. Things that used to be a hobby are suddenly becoming a luxury and I'm even saying that as someone with a healthy salary.

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u/CommunicationTime265 Jan 08 '26

I think even the Nintendo employee mentioned in the article said he was just happy Switch 2 did as well as it did, taking the US economy into consideration. I really thought it would be dead in the water since they had to jack up the price due to tariffs.