US Sales: November 2025 (Circana)

[Lucas-Rio]

Sephiran said:

Lucas-Rio said:

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.

What done is done, what Nintendo can do is to adjust the budgets of their coming Switch 2 games, be less ambitious when it comes to budget, that way they can make a solid profit of their own game releases even though the install base of Switch 2 will be lower. But there is no possibility for Nintendo to make ambitious AAA games with high budgets unless they want to see their profit margins crash.

Ambitious AAA games can be defined differently.

I am extremely happy with the scope of games as the TOTK, Odyssey and Xenoblades games. Nintendo does not need to chase the photo realist , 500go assets  games. The public does not as for thatas proven by the Switch success.

They need to continue their Switch strategy and not try to position themselves as a premium HW and high end realistic graphics SW.  Their main strength is the quality and uniqueness of their games which hold value for a long time and does not sell at discounted price after two months.