Nintendo, the second-largest gaming company after Sony, launched its highly-anticipated Switch console on June 5 and early sales figures have already begun to emerge. Nintendo has reported fantastic numbers only four days after the console's debut, marking it as the fastest-selling hardware product in the history of the company.
Around the world, consumers bought more than 3.5 million Nintendo Switch 2s within a week; such new standards put Nintendo on top. No previous console has sold this quickly on its first week on the market, with the original Nintendo Switch taking almost the entire month to reach a little over 2.74 million units sold.
Nintendo gotten ready for a huge demand as they have high hopes, with no reports of stock shortages, and possibly aim to sell about 13 million units by the end of the year. Not even surprise-me-to-sell-seven figures Nintendo is so sure of the Switch 2's appeal that they allegedly did not give review units to the press beforehand.
However, issues did crop up. Initial teardowns by repair specialists at iFixit raised some concerns. Just two days post-launch, they gave the Switch 2 a low repairability score of three out of ten. Reasons cited include a soldered cartridge slot, the use of an unusual thermal paste of unknown composition, and the continued use of potentiometers in the controllers, which could make them susceptible to the "drift" issue seen in previous models.
