Switch Ships 141.32 Million Units as of March 2024

[Shtinamin_]

zorg1000 said:

Shtinamin_ said:

I personally believe that if they do release a Tomodachi, Rhythm Heaven and other smaller IP's then the "system seller" would be Tomodachi due to nostalgia. Rhythm Heaven sells round 1-3M units at most, and those that are Rhythm Heaven enjoyers (like myself) have already gotten a Switch before.

I am a strong believer that Metroid Prime 4 will not be the cross-gen launch, because I think they will be releasing a new 3D Mario, and a few months later the new Mario Kart.

This 2nd half will probably be (my wish list, most realisitc to the top):
Mario Party iteration
Metroid Prime 4
DK (due to DKC in Universal & his presence in the movie)
Nintendo World Champions NES Deluxe
Tomodachi
Rhythm Heaven
Remake of Kid Icarus (1986)
Mario & Sonic @ Paris Olympics 2024
Pokémon (small game)
Nintendogs


Flip Studio (that's a want)
Art Academy (that's a want).

Agreed $300 OLED, $150 Lite, $250 Switch or bundles: MK8D+booster bundle, SMBW bundle, TotK bundle, Pikmin 4 bundle. Each bundle would be an additional $50. Maybe Nintendo implements both scenarios essentially slashing the price by $60.

With Successor Announcement in Nov 2024

Fight-the-Streets said:

Looking at their forecast with net sales down 19.3%, operating profit down 24.4%, ordinary profit down 38.3%, net profit down 38.9% and software sales down 17.4%, it's a big financial decline. Despite this substantial decrease to still forecasting Switch shippings of 13.5m (only down 14% and therefore less than software) can only mean one or two things:

1. Switch will receive a price cut (at the very least one of the 3 models) and/or bundles
2. New Switch SKU model where the profit (margin) is lower than on the existing 3 SKU's.

The above is the logical analysis, otherwise, the forecasted numbers don't make sense.

Link to Financial Results, see page 8: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240507_3e.pdf

I dont think they would bring in a new SKU model at such a late stage of the console's life. They have done it before with the GB bringing in the GBC, but that is a handheld and was due to the failure that was the Virtual Boy. If they bring in a new SKU, why would they replace it so soon with a brand new successor? I think option 1 is the most logical.

It’s not unheard of for Nintendo to release an entry level sku late in a consoles life, Game Boy Micro released after DS, Wii Mini released after Wii U and New 2DS XL released after Switch. They can coexist because the people looking to buy a budget version of an aging device are not the same people looking to buy a premium, new device.

That is very true but isn't that what the Switch Lite is, an entry level SKU (except it was just before its mid-life)? Unless you were thinking that they make a Switch DS? Or a Switch Apple TV?

And I do agree that they can co-exist together. I just think that the price drop is the more likely answer, though I did see a X post from President Shuntaro Furuwaka that says they will be announcing the Switch successor in this fiscal year, but he makes it sound like that the successor would release later into 2025, not earlier. Do we think they would push it back even further?
Another post from David Gibson said regarding an interview with President Furuwaka and he spoke of the successor in that "Switch next model is the appropriate way to describe it". So we may either see Switch 2 (a new console), or Switch Attach (an addition to the Switch family like the GBC to the GB).