Nintendo is standard 3.5 million sales of the Switch 2 consolation unit

Nintendo has sold more than 3.5 million units of the Switch 2 Games in the four days that followed, with retailers in the Greater United States that place signs “outside the stocks”.

The standard start of the first new control unit of the company, puts Nintendo on the way to achieving its goal of selling 15 million units From the switch unit 2 control unit in the fiscal year ending in March 2026.

However, analysts still believe that these expectations are modest, and to predict a strong initial demand to maintain it.

“The market expected a record from Nintendo, and as it turned out, Nintendo delivered,” Sirkan Toto, CEO and founder of the Consulting Games Company Kantan games, tell CNBC.

He added: “All references before the launch indicate a large request, and I think we will see more broken records in the coming weeks or months.”

Toto confirms that Switch 2 will sell more than 20 million units in the first 12 months. David Gibson, chief research analyst at MST Financial, told CNBC that he expects 20 million sales for the year ending in March 2026.

Switch 2, released on June 5, was met with a lot of noise, with People line up for hours before Midnight versions in Nintendo stores.

Dujer Busir, President of Nintendo, Nintendo Operations in Nintendo and Ambress Operations Doug Boser, said in A. statementThe addition of the company was grateful to the response.

LSEG data showed that Nintendo shares that will be in Tokyo, which gained nearly 30 % so far this year, decreased by 3.5 % on Wednesday. The company has witnessed that its shares have risen nearly five times since the appearance of the original switch in early March 2017.

It remains to see whether Switch 2 can restore the magic of its predecessor, which put the tape with the sales of the unit of 15 million in its first year. It continued to sell more than 152 million units to become The second highest Nintendo device Ever, behind Nintendo DS.

In April, Powers Nintendo CNBC said The company was working with “retail partners to ensure extensive supplies not only on the weekend, but beyond that.”

However, Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa President stated in the same month 2.2 million people in Japan The lottery entered to buy the launch day on the launch day, as it exceeded expectations and what the company planned initially to present it to the stores.

Kantan Games’ Toto He said a shortage in Japan He was expected to continue, but it would be less influential elsewhere.

“With the exception of Japan, where the demand for switching is 2 unusually high, it appears that fans who really want the control and investment unit in trying to secure one in reality can get one,” he said. “It may take some time, but as much as it can be monitored, it seems that the show is more powerful than launching the original key in 2017.”

President Donald Trump “Mutual definitions” In most countries around the world, the opposite winds offer 2.

In April Declare It would delay the 2 -year -old switching in the United States while looking at the impact of definitions.

Switch 2 is retained for $ 449 in the United States, making it The most controlled unit in Nintendo so far.

Bowser from Nintendo said in April that the company will go to “monitor the place where the definitions are going” before any other decisions are made.

Gibson of MST Financial said that the decision of the definitions in Trump and low duty prices may see low switching prices 2 in the United States

Switch 2 depends on the success of the original switch, and it features a larger screen and improved performance. The system also introduces the new Gamechat2 feature, which allows players to express or chat video with friends online and share gaming screens.

– Arjun Kharpal from CNBC contributed to this story.