Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

[zorg1000]

curl-6 said:

zorg1000 said:

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.

Ordinarily I'd agree, as almost every year of the Switch has had major games we didn't know about at the start of the year, (Wonder last year, Xenoblade 3 in 2022, Metroid Dread in 2021, etc) but at this stage it really seems to be the end of the road for Switch, as their entire release schedule is remasters with the sole exception of Princess Peach Showtime which is itself looks like a B-grade spinoff.

The fact that the upcoming Direct is a Partner Showcase further suggests Nintendo proper have nothing significant left for it.

It's that familiar twilight zone Nintendo consoles tend to have, like Wii U's 2016 or Wii's 2012, where the successor isn't ready yet but all the first party teams have moved on to it and left the current system behind.

That’s why I mentioned the last few major Wii U ports, a couple more GameCube remasters and small IP.

The only big hitter I could imagine releasing is a new Donkey Kong, seems like the perfect opportunity with him being a main character in the Mario Movie, a recent line of Lego sets and the DK expansion at Nintendo World. Would be a decent sized title for Switch’s last holiday.