Black Friday Week USA. PS5 #1, Switch 2 #2, Nex Playground #3

[Slownenberg]

Damn, not a good look for Nintendo and their new system.

Goes to show that price and games matter. No system has a good price, but for Black Friday week PS5 suddenly had relatively more reasonable prices while Switch 2 of course did not. And with zero big holiday season games this year (yet another criminal mistake by Nintendo in a year filled with criminal mistakes), Switch 2 is basically still trying to survive off it's launch hype, which is of course fading and which completely failed to translate against a discounted PS5 for black friday. An even worse look for Nintendo when you consider the fact that they normally dominate the holiday quarter in terms of systems sold, AND Switch 2 is really struggling against PS5 in Europe where gamers simply aren't buying into the high price and no big games strategy of the Switch 2.

Switch 2 did great so far off pure hype for the Switch successor, but that won't last forever, and it looks like the weakening is already starting in the west, and actually has been going on in Europe for a while already.

Nintendo really needs to pivot away from the "we can sell this thing at any price off pure hype" strategy and both drop the price to $400 (wouldn't expect this in the US cuz of idiotic tariffs, but elsewhere especially Europe it needs a drop) as well as start actually bringing out big games which they should have had scheduled for its first year. 3D Mario is desperately needed in the next few months for the Mario Galaxy movie release, that Splatoon game is needed soon, and at least one other big hitter is desperately needed in the coming months. Hopefully they've got a stellar system-selling lineup planned for 2026 which they completely failed to have for the launch year, otherwise it's gonna get harder and harder to sell this thing at its high price based off nothing more than "buy it cuz the Switch was cool!".