Nintendo’s Switch 2 is selling at more than twice the pace of the original

Nintendo posted the results of its fiscal first quarter on Friday, and the Switch 2’s initial quarter on sale was a banger.

Nintendo sold more than 5.8 million Switch 2 consoles in the April to June quarter, despite the system launching at the tail end of the period (June 5).

That’s more than double the original Switch’s 2.7 million first-quarter sales, and the console’s success more than doubled Nintendo’s quarterly revenue to about $3.8 billion. The better-than-expected revenue figure fueled Nintendo shares, and its US ADRs are up about 2% in premarket trading.

Switch 2 game sales reached 8.67 million units, compared to 24.4 million units for original Switch games. Because of the new console’s backward compatibility, Nintendo says “the people purchasing Nintendo Switch software include not only owners of Nintendo Switch, but also people who have bought Nintendo Switch 2.”

Nintendo said it still expects to sell 15 million Switch 2s and 45 million games in the fiscal year ending in March.