| Hardstuck-Platinum said: I feel like everyone is overcomplicating this. If you look at all the biggest and best selling games released this year, you can see that they're not on the Switch 2. COD, Battlefield, CO E 33, Borderlands 4, Elder scrolls Oblivion remake. None of these are on Switch 2, so why get one? They're called games consoles and you can't afford to not have these. Everyone will say "Switch 1 didn't have those types of games either", but Switch 2 costs more and the Switch concept isn't new anymore. For a similar price as the Switch 2 you could get a PS5 that plays all those games. Why wouldn't the average consumer go for the PS5? |
The Switch 2 is doing very well and it already has popular games with countless more to come. It will accumulate exclusives that you can't play anywhere else.
The majority of people who want a PS5 already have one, and the games you mentioned are available on other systems. Both of these factors diminish PS5's late life sales. So no, it isn't a foregone conclusion that PS5 will sell better than Switch 2 just because it gets more popular titles annually. And we don't yet know how much prices will hurt Switch 2's potential. A lot of people had similar concerns about PS5's high pricing and "weak software", but it kept proving them wrong and murdered Xbox when everyone thought this was gonna be a much closer generation than the last one.
If Nintendo followed your suggestion and went with even higher specs (which naturally requires a higher pricetag), it would have ended up selling worse even if it did get more 3rd party games. The specs and price are great all things considered. The game lineup is decent too for a new console.
So far I'd say "Game Key Cards" is Nintendo's only major mistake this generation.
