US Sales: November 2025 (Circana)

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Sephiran said:

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? 

I mean, Nintendo IP and Nintendo games are expected to be among the bigger games in the industry, or you mean to tell us that in a span of a few months, Nintendo IP has gone from being incredibly popular to now be less popular than Oblivion and Expedition 33? Have you seen how much software Nintendo has sold over the decades of just their own first party games?

This is when we come back to software, all the big holiday Switch 2 releases are Switch 1 games. 

For families especially, cross gen is just a reason not to upgrade. Only the most core gamers will care about resolution differences etc. For now I think people are comfortable with S1 outside of those eager to be early adopters, so same early adopters don't need to wait for the holiday for such an available system. But anyway I do agree with Louie that this is a whole lot of fuss over a soft november and we should wait to see a bigger pattern over the holidays and eventually the new year. 

I'm just projecting my feeling that the despite the system having hype at launch I don't think is a need amongst the general public to upgrade and price is not going to change that until the system gets some definitive games.