US Sales: November 2025 (Circana)

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Otter 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 would be the point of that system? 

Again as we've seen in the past with Nintendo, users have to be compelled by your next product otherwise they won't buy it. If they cheaped out on specs they would have to have a strong gimmick elsewhere and I think an important part of Nintendo's future growth and also the success of the Switch is just focusing on sustainable practices not just throwing out gimmicks for the sake of a few years good hardware sales. The Switch's hardware will be healthy for its future 1st and 3rd party development, as well all the services aspects which they'll continue to rely on more going forward.

I think the problem for Nintendo is that the AAA audience is fully locked down on PS/PC, and people that own both a Nintendo console and a PC/PS buys their AAA games on PC/PS. So if they don't get any benefits of having AAA games on their systems like PS gets from it, then they will just have led to Switch 2 having better specs than it really needed to have and thus led to the console having a higher price point for no obvious gains. Its likely that Switch 2 will from a software selling standpoint remain just a Nintendo and indie machine. Even in the most Nintendo dominated market like Japan, the audience for AAA games like Resident Evil are on PS. We will thus continue to see only PS getting a boost from having such games, while third parties will complain that those games aren't selling on Switch 2, because people will buy Mario Tennis and Silksong instead of Resident Evil 9 on Switch 2. The audience for AAA is finite and already established on other platforms, you won't get that audience to buy those games on Switch 2 instead of the platforms they have bought those games for 20 years on in the future.