Nintendo Switch 2 Sells 3.5 Million in Opening Weekend, Breaking Console Records and Surpassing Original Switch’s First Month

Oh man, so get this. Nintendo just went and smashed their own record with the Nintendo Switch 2. Like, in four days. Yup, 3.5 million of these bad boys out the door since June 5th. I’m not gonna do the math, but that’s a lot faster than the first Switch did back in March 2017. Math… not my thing.

Anyway, Nintendo’s all sorts of hyped because this is their best launch ever. Like, they’re one-fifth of the way to hitting their sales target of 15 million units by March 2026 or something. It’s nuts.

Oh, and speaking of nuts, there was this whole situation at a GameStop in New York? Picture this: customers opening boxes and—bam—receipt staples puncturing their screens. Can you imagine the horror? Totally got replacements, though, so at least there’s that.

Meanwhile, across the pond, I heard about folks in the UK getting boxes that looked like they’d been tampered with or something. Unsealed and tape all janky. Maybe a tape malfunction? Who knows. Like, it was meant to keep the box shut, but not so much. Go figure.

Now, let’s dive into the techy stuff. I’m told the Switch 2 has these updated Joy-Con 2 controllers. They have optical sensors—kinda like using a mouse. And the screen’s bigger, 7.9 inches, 1080p, and 120Hz. If those numbers mean things to you, cool.

On the inside, it’s packing eight ARM Cortex A78C cores, fancy words for powerful crunching, and a custom Nvidia GPU. There are some RAMs, giggles of memory—no, gigabytes—with 256GB storage that’s expandable. Pop in a microSD, and you’re golden. Someone whispered something about M2 NVMe SSDs. DIY magic, maybe?

Oh, almost forgot. They’re still on shelves, so don’t freak out. GameStop, Best Buy, the usual suspects have them. UK folks are good too.

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