Nintendo Swap 2 is the best-selling console within the US, when it comes to the primary three months of gross sales.
Market analysis firm Circana’s senior director Mat Piscatella posted findings from the corporate’s August 2025 market information, together with the information that Nintendo‘s new console has offered extra in its first three months than every other console within the US up to now.
Piscatella identified that Swap 2 offered 2.4 million models in its first three months within the US, placing it 5% forward of the earlier document holder, the PlayStation 4.
“With 2.4M models offered LTD over its first 3 months market, Nintendo Swap 2 is now 5% forward of the earlier document setting tempo of PlayStation 4, which offered 2.2M models through the 3 months ending January 2014,” Piscatella wrote.
He additionally identified that Nintendo Swap 2 unit gross sales are at the moment “trending 77% forward [of] the time-aligned gross sales of the unique Nintendo Swap.”
The continued Swap 2 gross sales led to a 32% enhance in {hardware} spending for August 2025, in comparison with August 2024. Though year-on-year August gross sales have declined by double-digit percentages on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S and Swap, the gross sales of Swap 2 ensured that the general {hardware} spend this yr was notably increased.
The figures counsel that Nintendo’s console has but to lose momentum following a record-breaking launch month within the US.
Circana reported in July that Nintendo offered 500,000 Swap 2 consoles within the US in its first week and a complete of 1.6 million throughout its whole launch month of June 2025, setting a US launch month document, comfortably beating the PS4’s launch month gross sales of 1.1 million models.
Exterior of the US, in July the Japanese first-month gross sales document beforehand held by the PS2 was damaged by Swap 2, which reportedly offered no less than 1.5 million models in Japan in its first month (not together with models Nintendo offered itself, on to clients).
It was additionally introduced in June that Swap 2’s launch gross sales made it the quickest promoting Nintendo console in UK historical past, however fourth general behind the PS5, PS4 and Xbox Sequence X/S.
