People love Nintendo and their Switch. Despite the Switch 2’s samey design and the numerous leaks weeks in advance, the Switch 2 unveiling video has achieved remarkable success by YouTube’s metrics.
Within just 12 hours of its release, the video climbed to the top of the trending list. At the time of writing, the Nintendo of America version of the trailer has received an impressive 12 million views and roughly 882k likes.

X/Twitter user Pierre485 gathered some stats of the first 7 hours after the video’s release, proving its success:
- 23 million views in Japan
- 16 million views in North America
- 8 million views in EU + others
It’s interesting to note that Japan, with its lower population than North America (and fewer sales of the original console), took the lead here.
By comparison, the original Switch reveal had fewer views than the Switch 2’s announcement, but social media has grown since 2016.