Nintendo recently set and broke its own sales record, claiming to have sold 3.5 million units of its new Switch 2 console, just four days after launch. On that note, it also makes the handheld the brand’s fastest-selling game handheld in its history.
By comparison, Nintendo sold 2.7 million units of the original Switch console in four weeks, when it launched in 2017. According to ComputerBase, the reason for the original Switch’s sucess was likely due to the abysmal popularity of the Wii U, while the Switch 2 basically launched at the right time, and while it still has a strong and established player base.
A more important point is that unlike its competitors, both in the console and GPU market, Nintendo made sure that it had enough Switch 2 consoles to around. As it stands, we’ve not heard or picked up on any reports of the console not being available, be it during launch or even now.
Specs-wise, we already know that the Nintendo Switch 2 is powered by a custom NVIDIA SoC known as the T239. The chipset is based on the Ampere GPU architecture which made its debut in 2020 with the launch of the GeForce RTX 30 Series. The chipset includes two 6GB SK Hynix LPDDR5 modules, capable of running frequencies of 8533MT/s, although it’s likely to be slower on the Switch 2. It also features eight ARM Cortex-A78C cores, 4MB of L2 Cache, and 1,536 CUDA cores. The die itself measures in at 207mm2, a little more than double the size of the Tegra X1 used in the current Switch.
(Source: Nintendo, ComputerBase, Videocardz)
