We knew that the Change 2 was off to a powerful gross sales begin within the UK since just about its first week. The console overtakes have been sure to comply with, and evidently the mighty GameCube has already been surpassed.
That is in keeping with The Recreation Enterprise‘ Christopher Dring, who took to Bluesky to notice that the brand new Nintendo {hardware} has overtaken our beloved GameCube’s UK gross sales — and that is after only one 12 months available on the market.
For these questioning, this places Change 2 because the thirteenth best-selling console total within the UK (excluding handhelds), and the fourth best-selling Nintendo launch — simply behind the Nintendo 64.
Regardless of this, Xbox was the one platform holder to see a greater first six months of 2026 than 2025. Dring defined on Twitter that whereas Change 2 gross sales are up 16% based mostly on the primary half of final 12 months (Change 2 was solely launched in June, keep in mind), bundling in S1 gross sales paints a worse first-six-month image for Nintendo than the 12 months earlier than.
Nintendo’s best-selling consoles rating is barely completely different worldwide, after all, although probably not by a lot. At Nintendo’s final monetary rely, the Change 2 had offered 19.86 million models as of March 2026, placing it barely behind the GameCube on 21.74 million. With the growth of Pokopia within the months since, we would be very shocked if the Change 2 hasn’t overtaken the GameCube’s worldwide figures at this level, although we’ll get the up to date numbers within the subsequent quarterly monetary report subsequent month.
