{"id":1394,"date":"2025-07-23T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:07:07","slug":"switch-2-launch-helps-boost-us-video-game-spending-to-record-june-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/switch-2-launch-helps-boost-us-video-game-spending-to-record-june-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2 Launch Helps Boost US Video Game Spending To Record June High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new console sold 1.6 million units in June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We already know the Switch 2 has broken sales records in the US \u2014 just last month, Nintendo&#8217;s upgraded hybrid console reportedly hit an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/switch-2-sets-all-time-launch-record-for-video-game-hardware-in-the-us\">&#8220;all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware&#8221;<\/a>. And now, Circana&#8217;s Mat Piscatella has more data to back up that info.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing the stats on Bluesky, not only is the Switch 2 the fastest-selling console in the US <em>ever<\/em>, but the launch also helped boost video game spending in the US to an all-time June high.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/switch-2-launch-helps-boost-us-video-game-spending-to-record-june-high\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new console sold 1.6 million units in June. We already know the Switch 2 has broken sales records in the US \u2014 just last month, Nintendo&#8217;s upgraded hybrid console reportedly hit an &#8220;all-time launch week unit sales record for video game hardware&#8221;. And now, Circana&#8217;s Mat Piscatella has more data to back up that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}