HoloDust said:
Soundwave said:
153 million Switch 1 systems + record breaking launch of Switch 2 tells me Nintendo is not the one losing sleep over anything. Nintendo could easily have 160+ million Switch 1 units too if they really wanted it via a price cut. No one else is moving game hardware at the volume they are moving it at. Switch 2 is going to shred the PS5 for yearly sales while giving Sony a 6 month headstart on the year for example, that's bonkers.Â
Sony and MS are the ones rushing to put their games on other platforms, that is more telling. If anything Nintendo has backed off smartphone games and aren't supporting that so much anymore, whereas 10 years ago it looked like they were locking that in as a big part of their future. They found more success through the hybrid concept of the Switch.Â
The Mario movie and theme park expansions have been massively successful too and I said this before the Mario Movie (I called that it would be a big hit) ... that Zelda movie if the script is even half decent is going to do monstrous business. Nintendo is going to be the next MCU IMO.Â
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You views are very...narrow and shortsighted.
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We'll see who's right.
Nintendo's sales numbers speak for themselves, and they're not the ones going multiplatform anywhere, if anything they're even scaling back the concession they made about 10 years ago to make smartphone games because those games haven't matched the success they have found with the Switch.
Once the Switch 2 generation is done, IMO no one in the history of the business is ever going to see that much console volume in two back to back generations (PS1 + PS2 is going down). Their big franchises in many cases are also having record breaking sales ... Zelda has never been bigger than it is now. Mario Kart has never been bigger than it is now. Smash Brothers has never been bigger than it is now. Animal Crossing has never been as big as it is now. 3D Mario on Switch is bigger than its ever been. Pokemon is quite at absolute peak, but it's up from even the DS era.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 06 August 2025
