Nintendo Switch 2 is the best-selling console across units and dollar sales for April 2026 and 2026 year-to-date in the United States, according to Circana senior director Mat Piscatella. Just like in March, PlayStation 5 is ranking second for April and 2026 year-to-date.
Nintendo Switch 2 helped drive $261 million in hardware spending for April 2026, which is a 34% increase compared to April 2025. According to Piscatella, spending on Nintendo Switch 2 hardware offset declines seen across Switch (-69% versus April 2025), Xbox Series (-43%) and PlayStation 5 (-30%).
Despite a decline in PlayStation 5 sales, the console’s lifetime installed base finished April tracking 2% ahead of PlayStation 4 on a time aligned basis for 66 months in market. Nintendo Switch 2 is surpassed the sales pace of the original Nintendo Switch by 11% within its initial 11-month period in market.
The good news doesn’t stop for Nintendo, however. Nintendo’s hardware spending for the month of April 2026 finished at its highest point since July 2025. This can be partly attributed to the release of Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, which was the best-selling game of April with over $41 million in physical and projected digital spending.
As the 9th best-selling game of the year, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream also aided in a 44% increase in consumer spending on physical software to $96 million. Year-to-date spending on new physical software increased by 9% as well. Further, PRAGMATA aided sales across all platforms as the 2nd best-selling game of April.
