US Sales: November 2025 (Circana)

[Zippy6]

Kyuu 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.

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 "desipite" MKW and not "because" of it.

I think the difference is that it's early, and MKW is one of the few reasons right now to get a Switch 2. It's easily the driving force to get one now instead of waiting so people that don't care about MK are for the most part just not buying it, which is why the attach rate is so high compared to MK8 even though that was heavily bundled too.

There's not going to be many early adopters that won't pick up mkw, especially with a heavy discount. In the UK it's £34 more for the bundle RRP, but the game is £75 physical.

Also the bulk of the discounts for holidays have been for the bundle. Right now I can get both models delivered today from Argos, but standalone is £386 and the bundle £409.... So it's only £23 for MKW lol.

I've not noticed any stock issues for switch 2, neither standalone or MKW bundle.

Last edited by Zippy6 - on 22 December 2025