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Kyuu on 22 December 2025
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Lucas-Rio said:
Kyuu said:

The Mario Kart bundle only softens the blow for those interested in the game. For everyone else, the bundle is a €40 tax. It's a barrier.

Prices being a concern is fair. But People were concerned about Switch 1 and PS5 prices as well, and both of them overperformed. Switch 1 easily outsold the generally cheaper PS4. I don't necessarily expect Switch 2 to repeat that against PS5, but it's too early to say the console is overpriced.

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.

My understanding is that the bundles constituted the vast majority of SKU's. Was the base Switch 2 readily available everywhere? Am I overestimating the bundles numbers?

Most Switch 1 users didn't buy Mario Kart despite the mass bundling in the holiday season. My sister got her Switch 1 on Black Friday with a free MK8D and 3 months of online iirc, but I don' think she even touched the game. She used it for Ring Fit, indies, and occasionally Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze and RE4 (nostalgia). So I'm thinking not an insignificant number of people bought Switch 2's "despite" MKW and not "because" of it.