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firebush03 said:

Ah so another revelation I’ve had as of recent: Despite NS2 having inarguably the most commercially successful first 8 months of any video game console, people will always try and make a negative out of it. In this case, Circana just reported NS2 sales sit 45% ahead of NS1 figures— sounds like good news, no? Well… it seems a lot of people are turning this into “NS1 will sell 1.5 million next month launch-aligned, so NS2 is about to lose that lead” (which isn’t even possible since NS2 had sold 5.98 million in US alone by 12-31-2025 whereas NS1 had only sold 5.94 million by 12-31-2017).

In short: Doomers be dooming, Pokopia has made it harder to doom, but the doomers continue to fight in order to make discourse surrounding Switch 2 extremely depressing. TBH I don’t really like viewing my video game consoles from the perspective of “living in the shadow” of its ground-breaking predecessor… I’d rather just stick with, y’know, actually engaging in the medium (i.e. playing video games) than endlessly doom.

The 5.98 million for Switch 2 is units shipped in the Americas and not sales in the US. Switch 2 is a little over 4.8M sold through February in the US. Pokopia has caused a decent boost for March, so expect much higher sales in next months report for Switch 2.