Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

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curl-6 said:

Yeah if Switch 2 misses this year Nintendo have dropped the ball.

If it’s delayed to late 2025 than I agree but if it’s early 2025 than it’s probably not that big of a deal. A ~3.5 month delay between late November 2024 & early March 2025 won’t make a huge difference. Basically, I would prefer holiday 2024 but if it releases this fiscal year than I’m not too worried.

As for Nintendo’s lineup this year

Jan-Another Code: Recollection

Feb-Mario vs Donkey Kong

March-Princess Peach Showtime

Summer-Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD

2024-Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door

Obviously that’s not a great lineup but a few points, 1. Nintendo often has a barren lineup this time of year then a Feb/March Direct shows off more titles releasing in the Spring/Summer and 2. I have a feeling Nintendo has a few titles waiting in the wings in case of an unexpected drought. I could absolutely see ports of Wind Waker HD, Twilight Princess HD, Xenoblade Chronicles X, Metroid Prime 2&3 being mixed in there along with new installments of smaller IP like Rhythm Heaven.

Then there is the possibility of having a true price cut (Lite-$169.99, OLED-$299.99, original-discontinued)

Next fiscal year shipments could be something like Switch, 10-11 million and Switch 2, 3-4 million and that would be a pretty good result.