Famitsu Sales: Week 10, 2025 (Mar 03 - Mar 09)

[CosmicSex]

killer7 said:

CosmicSex said:

Well, assuming that the Switch 2 isn't agregiously expensive, and the backwards compatibility is decent, wouldn't you rather just get that over the original?  So I assume 'lights out' refers to a sudden decline in sales.

All Nintendo handhelds had a relativley good post sucessor afterlife. Why should it be different with the Switch? Switch 2 won't hit under 400$/€. You really think Nintendo would raise the entry level for their syszems from 220$/€ (Switch Lite) to 400$/€+ all of a sudden? The Gamecube was not done until 2008 and that system was doing crazy bad in it's life!

The Switch should continue to sell and be shipped by Nintendo for quite some time.  But if we look at the top sellers for the Switch the OLED model is consistently the best seller, not the entry level console.    So if you are already spending that much on a Switch, it makes sense to just get the 2.  I expect to see Switch sales to decline sharply but not stop.  3DS sold for years!