The Nintendo Switch is off to a big start, with sales for Nintendo’s new console beating out first two-day sales in the Americas for any system in Nintendo’s history, according to New York Times reporter Nick Wingfield, who had spoken with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Wingfield noted that the Switch’s success is particularly impressive given that the console launched in March, rather than the more traditional holiday season.

It’s an early win for the Switch, especially since Nintendo’s previous record holder for two-day sales was the incredibly popular Wii. While its hard to compare without exact sales numbers, Nintendo announced at the time that the Wii sold over 600,000 units in the first eight days in the Americas, a figure the company would no doubt like to surpass. The Wii would go on to ship over 100 million units, and remains one of the most popular consoles ever shipped.


Additionally, Fils-Aime told Wingfield that the Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was the best-selling launch title (that wasn’t bundled, like Wii Sports) of any Nintendo console. It’s another impressive achievement considering the popularity of the Nintendo 64’s launch title, Super Mario 64, and the fact that Breath of the Wild is also available for the Wii U.

Nintendo has yet to reveal actual sales numbers for either the Switch or Zelda at this time. Still, it’s an unqualified good start for the Switch.

Just be extra careful when putting it in the dock, its scratched quite a number of screens pretty badly.

The Nintendo Switch has sold an estimated 330,637 units in its first three days on sale in Japan.

That’s according to Famitsu, which adds that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold an estimated 190,060 copies in the country. That figure is retail only and does not include downloads.



These early figures are from March 3 to March 5, the Switch’s launch week and first three days on sale. (Expect Nintendo to release sales data of its own in the future.)

To put these hardware numbers into context, the Nintendo Wii U sold an estimated 308,570 units in its first two days on sale, with the Wii U’s launch week being from December 8 to December 9, 2012. The Wii, however, sold around 371,936 units in its first two days on sale back on December 2, 2006 during its debut launch week.

Both those earlier consoles went on sale in December, and the Switch put those numbers on the board, absent of any major holidays.

Ah, will do :p

random question but to anyone who has a switch, what do the game cartridges taste like?

someone told me they taste real gross but idk

they're really bitter to stop bebes eating them

my brother has one
nothing too special but its cool

It just tastes REALLY metallic. It's gross, but not AS bad as youtubers are making it out to be (overact to get more views/shares)

i'm not trolling but like this whole thing is garbage?

like there's only 3 major games coming within the first year of the console release :x (mario odyssey, zelda, mario kart) all of the other anticipated titles are indie games like bleh i just don't get #IT#

me swallowing cum

I would argue that there are way more than those three. Splatoon 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 stand out as heavy hitters. Also Fire Emblem Warriors, Skyrim Switch, Arms, Project Sonic etc with a rumoured Pokemon Stars which would be amazing if true. FIFA and NBA games will also help the system, as well as high profile Indie games like Yooka-Laylee, Rime, Steamworld Dig 2 and Runner.

Probably coming early 2018 also includes No More Heroes and a new Fire Emblem game. Tons of stuff still on the way.

Apparently some units are beginning to warp
https://i.imgur.com/FDMoJ4Vl.jpg

The build quality is quite shocking, especially from Nintendo

a MESS

I've just read about it and it's happened to a lot of people's I think. Apparently it's happening mostly when it's been in docked mode for a long time (because of poor heat dispersion or something) but some people are saying it's happened to theirs when they've just used it handheld :worry: They'd better fix it before I buy mine :oh:

can you just get a damn ps4 instead :nono:

you'll enjoy horizon more than zelda :}

I've seen bits of that on YT and it does look good tbf... but no :hee:

enjoy your broken console then

http://i.imgur.com/Pqm1hlf.gif

:laugh: No amount of overpriced scratch prone warping hardware will stop me from enjoying Zelda!

Got one :)

Who's getting MK8 tomorrow

I got one :amazed:

With what games :amazed:

Just Zelda (I actually bought the game a couple of weeks ago lol but couldn't get the console till now because there hasn't been any stock)... I want to get Mario Kart as well though, and a bunch of others too tbh, but I think Zelda's gonna keep me pretty busy for a while! Which ones have you got?

i only want zelda and mario kart :^|

it's really not worth the purchase yet!