While it may not have surpassed the original Switch’s first-year holiday sales, the Nintendo Switch 2 still dominated 2025 in the United States in grand fashion. It topped hardware sales charts for the year in unit and dollar sales, according to Circana analyst and senior director Mat Piscatella on Bluesky. Unsurprisingly, it was the best-selling console across both metrics last December.
Perhaps more importantly, however, it finally broke the curse of declining year-on-year console sales with a six percent increase in spending for December at $1.2 billion and nine percent higher annual spending at $5.4 billion. At 4.4 million units sold since its release last June, its life-to-date total almost doubled the original Switch’s install base within the same period.
But if all those accolades weren’t enough, Piscatella revealed that it’s the fastest-selling video game console hardware platform in the region’s history. Yes, even faster than the PS4 within seven months – in fact, the Switch 2’s sales were 35 percent higher. Sony didn’t exactly limp out of the year with the PS5, though, ranking second in unit and dollar sales.
As always, it remains to be seen if Nintendo can continue this momentum, especially with analysts predicting a price hike this year due to tariffs and RAM shortages.
