Nintendohas revealed official sales numbers for theSwitch 2for the first time, and the figures are even wilder than you likely imagined. Not only because the Switch 2 sold almost six million units, but because almost every single one of those six million Switch 2 owners has also bought a copy ofMario Kart World.
Nintendo confirmed during today’s financial resultsthat, as of July 19, 2025,it sold 5.82 million Switch 2 consoles. It only includes numbers up until the end of June, as these are quarterly results that include data from April 1 through June 30. The Switch 2 only accounts for the final month of that period, starting from its launch on June 5, so even more impressive that it had sold so many consoles by that stage.
Pretty much everyone who bought a Switch 2 also owns Mario Kart World
Even more impressive is the Mario Kart World attach rate. Of the 5.82 million Switch 2 users,5.63 million of them own a copy of Mario Kart World. That means 96.7 percent of Switch 2 owners have a copy of Mario Kart World. That’s partly down to the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, but the launch title was not a pack-in game. Despite the bundle, that’s a lot of copies, millions of them, that would have been bought separately during the Switch 2’s launch month.
The first $80 game doing this well. Cue other studios getting the wrong idea again.
Nintendo also revealed thatit sold 8.67 million Switch 2 games through June 30. That means, again, having sold 5.63 million copies, 65 percent of Switch 2 games sold during the console’s first 25 days were Mario Kart World. The other 35 percent will have been made up by games likeWelcome Tour,Deltarune, andCyberpunk 2077, all of which appear to have had strong starts to life on the Switch 2.
Nintendo also provided an update onoriginal Switchsales as the console continues its quest to become the best-selloing console ever. Now that the Switch 2 is here, that’s looking less and less likely.The OG Switch sold an additional 980,000 units during the last quarter. That puts its total beyond 153 million lifetime sales. It seems inevitable that it will become the best-selling Nintendo console ever very soon, surpassing theNintendo DSat 154 million, but thePS2’s 160 million units sold might be out of reach.
The Switch 2 performing so well during its first month demonstrates a few things. Not only that it’s incredibly popular, but that Nintendo did a fantastic job of trying to keep up with demand. That the console continues to sell out everywhere implies its first year sales will be astronomical, and may even surpass the 15 million Nintendo has predicted for the Switch 2’s first financial year.
