US Sales: November 2025 (Circana)

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Tober said:

The price of the console is not the challenge. That's a one time purchase. It's the price of the games.

It reminds me of the N64 era. The game pricing was a bit off putting. They really needed to have new gaming experiences that you did not get anywhere else to convince people.

Luckily in the N64 era there were games that where truly innovative like Mario64, Zelda OoT and offcourse 4 player (splitscreen) play. These sold well. Other offerings on the system not so much.

In 2025 it's much harder to really define gaming new, as in you HAVE to try this. Much of the games that come close are indies, those are affordable and perfectly playable on Switch1.

Yes, this is what I always said would be Switch 2’s issue. The console price is honestly perfectly fair and reasonable all things considered. I think most consumers would also feel that way when they start to consider all the factors as well. Everything else from Nintendo for the console is absolutely overpriced though. And when your games are too much, that’s a big problem because next to no one wants to buy a console just to pay one time for a game.

Most want a console they can buy multiple games for over several years, and people aren’t so dumb as to not realize how $70 and $80 games start to add up to a huge additional amount spent so much quicker than $50 and $60 ones. Then that’s not even mentioning accessory prices…