Switch 2 Is The Second-Fastest Selling Console In US History

Nintendo Switch 2 sales for March 2026 in the United States were bullish, surpassing both January and February combined, with an estimated 568k consoles purchased. That's the informed reading from long-time armchair analyst Welfare over on InstallBase, and he's hardly pulling numbers out of thin air—as industry guru Mat Piscatella noted in today's Circana report, the Switch 2 is now 12 percent ahead of its predecessor in US launch-aligned sales. It's math. It works.