Best Buy began selling the Switch 2 at its retail locations on June 5. It previously said it wouldn't sell the handheld at its online store during launch week, but it made additional consoles available on June 11 around 12PM ET. That restock lasted for the better part of an hour and required in-store pickup, but the device is now sold out again.

Hideaki Nishino’s comments regarding PlayStation’s “differentiated strategy” arrived a week after Nintendo released the Switch 2. On Wednesday, Nintendo announced that its new system had shattered console launch day records, selling over 3.5 million units globally and becoming the fastest-selling system ever in Nintendo.

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Hardware sales for the Nintendo Switch 2 have reached almost one million units in Japan, making it the country's

Nintendo just made a better Nintendo Switch, and that's a good thing. This powered-up console delivers in every way that counts, even with a couple of headaches at launch. Now, we just wait for more games.

The Nintendo Switch 2's early sales indicate the console is going to blow past all other gaming handhelds, including Valve's Steam Deck.

As for cases, the dockable one is the most versatile, it comes with a snug hard shell that fits the Switch 2 and Joy-Cons, and it can go straight into the dock without taking anything off. It's ideal if you swap between handheld and docked play a lot.

Capcom has announced that Street Fighter 6 has now sold over 5 million units since its initial release in 2023; a milestone helped considerably by the recent release on the Nintendo Switch 2.