Nintendo Switch Ignites Sales Spikes at GameStop, Best Buy

Customers wait in line to purchase the Nintendo Switch 2 game console during its sales launch at a Best Buy store in San Diego in June.

Photographer: Ariana Drehsler/Bloomberg

Call it the Switch effect.

The release of Nintendo Co.’s $450 Switch 2 has sparked much-needed sales booms at GameStop Corp. and Best Buy Co., according to data from Bloomberg Second Measure.