{"id":350693,"date":"2026-01-03T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350693\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:51:09","slug":"nintendo-switch-2-uk-sales-surpass-wii-u-dreamcast-and-playstation-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350693\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch 2 UK Sales Surpass Wii U, Dreamcast And PlayStation Vita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch 2 sales in the United Kingdom have already surpassed those achieved by the Wii U, SEGA Dreamcast and PlayStation Vita.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to data from marketing research firm NielsenIQ, which The Game Business editor-in-chief and co-founder Chris Dring shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Chris_Dring\/status\/2006017882128285792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Launched on 5 June 2025, Nintendo most recently confirmed last September that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo-insider.com\/nintendo-switch-2-sales-surpass-10-36-million-consoles-worldwide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold more than 10.36 million Nintendo Switch 2 consoles<\/a> across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>That early success saw the company upwardly revise its full-year sales forecast for the portable home console successor, which it now expects to surpass 19 million console sales by 31 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch 2 is now available at retailers worldwide, priced at \u00a3395.99 in the United Kingdom, \u20ac469.99 across Europe, and $449.99 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch 2 Overview Trailer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch 2 sales in the United Kingdom have already surpassed those achieved by the Wii U, SEGA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-350693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}