Switch 2 Has Sold “More Than 6 Million” Units, And Almost As Many Copies Of Mario Kart World

Nintendo’s most-recent earnings drop has just hit the wires, and the console maker has verified that Switch 2 hardware has now surged “past 6 million units worldwide within seven weeks of release.”

Switch 2 debuted on 5 June, and today’s Q1 financial filing runs through the end of that month. The quoted “over 6 million” stretches slightly past that cutoff—to around 24 July (seven weeks after launch).

By 30 June, Nintendo had moved 5.82 million Switch 2 consoles (3.5 million in just the opening four days) along with 5.63 million copies of Mario Kart World, counting the digital vouchers bundled with the popular kart-racer console combo. Total Switch 2 software across all titles stands at 8.67 million units.

For context, the original Switch managed only 0.98 million units in the equivalent timeframe, dipping from 2.1 million in the equivalent quarter last year (-53.5%), bringing lifetime volume to 153.10 million units so far. Switch 1 software logged 24.4 million, down year-on-year from 30.64 million (-20.4%).

Here’s how the Switch 2 hardware splits across regions:

• Japan: 1.27 million
• The Americas: 2.08 million
• Europe: 1.34 million
• Other territories: 1.13 million

Unsurprisingly, a hot debut lifted Nintendo’s gross profit 21.4 percent year-over-year (to 185.1 billion yen), even if slimmer margins on the younger hardware pushed gross margin down 29.5 points to 32.3 percent.

Nintendo isn’t budging on its full-year outlook: it still expects to ship 15 million Switch 2 units this fiscal year, matching its May guidance, along with 45 million units of software.

The document adds that demand is outpacing stock “in many regions, and we regret the inconvenience this is causing our consumers.”

tl;dr: Switch 2 flew off shelves, Mario Kart World enjoys sky-high tie-ratio (no shocker), and Nintendo’s new generation is sprinting out of the gate at record pace.