curl-6 said:
ShadowLink93 said:
Hardware is amazing but software is a concern, just 9.46 million sold this quarter compared to 16.41 million for Switch 1 in it's equivalent quarter. After five quarters Switch 2 totals 58.17 million games sold compared to 68.97 million for Switch 1. The Switch 1 had a much lower installbase at this stage but was averaging 3.88 games per console (68.97 divided by 17.79) versus 2.45 games per console for Switch 2 (58.17 divided by 23.68). These $70 and $80 Nintendo games aren't selling like the evergreens did on Switch 1, in fact the legs of these games are really poor by Nintendo's standards. |
Basically, with Switch 1 you got a new mainline Zelda, (and a revolutionary one at that) 3D Mario, and Splatoon in the first 9 months; these are substantially bigger hitters than series like Donkey Kong, Kirby, et al on Switch 2 sales wise. |
Aslo the Switch1 was not backwards compatible. If you wanted to play something you needed to buy it for the system. Switch2 is backwards compatible. As example Nintendo said 40% of Tomodachi Life was played on Switch2. But obviously they count as Switch1 game sales.
