US Sales: November 2025 (Circana)

[Lucas-Rio]

Sephiran said:

Lucas-Rio said:

The console is also sold without Mario Kart , for a smaller price than the bundle, so the option exist, and is more interesting if you are not interested in Mario Kart.

Switch 1 was more expansive than anticipated, but much less than the Switch 2. Without even talking about the software prices. Nintendo sent games like Kirby to die with that pricing. I don't know if Nintendo Japan expected it to flop compltely in the West and just greelighted the game to please Sakurai or if they thought that this game had potential. If they thought that, they misread the room and Nintendo US + Europe knew the game was going to bomb and did not bother spending money to market it.

So far, smaller switch 2 games are not selling well , and the HW number is showing a big slow down in the biggest quarter of the year. Nintendo will need to adress that.

It's a green light in Japan, but orange light in the US and the it's becoming a little red in Europe.

And none of this is in Nintendo's hands, no handheld that has the same specs as Switch 2 cost less or the same as Switch 2 currently on the market. You could argue that Nintendo should have made a worse Switch 2, forget about getting third party games like Resident Evil 9 and priced it less. But people would argue that would make it a Switch pro, rather than a Switch 2.

In general, economic realities are what they are, consumers will spend less this holiday in the US than they did during previous years, which will naturally lead to lower console sales this holiday as well.

Its better to just realize the reality, yes Switch 2 will be affected by inflation, tariffs and lowered consumer demand, and Nintendo will not be able to do anything to change that reality, its just something that will lead to lower Switch 2 sales in western markets for the foreseeable future. Nintendo will be far from the only ones that will have to face that reality, next gen consoles will not sell better than current gen consoles on current market conditions, that is just the reality we live in. There is no reality where a more expensive PS6 outsells the PS5, the only thing that is specific to Nintendo is that they were the first to launch a new console during this time, everyone else will face it a later date.

I would argue that Nintendo should have made a console with an affordable price as a target (which worse specs in your words). People bitching about the Switch 1 specs for years, but the public was happy enough with it as it is the most successful Nintendo console ever.

Now they will have to find a balance bewteen their profits, the numbers of sales needed to keep the console life healthy and sustainable, and the prices that will enable them to reach that goal.

Chasing third party game like RE9 is dumb and I hope it was not part of their reasonning. Nintendo do not need them and anyway PS5/PC will always have an edge for third party games.