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curl-6 on 16 August 2026
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firebush03 said:
curl-6 said:

I would contend that the reason software figures have been lower for Switch 2 so far is that most of its first party releases to date have been second-tier IPs.

Pokemon Pokopia shows games can sell great on it.

It’s every game though. Pokopia is the only game so far to outperform expectations, meanwhile MTFever, Yoshi & the Mysterious Book, and even Air Riders are experienced a major drop compared to their NS1 versions (MTFever, Yoshi Crafted World, KirbySA). With DKBananza and TotK struggling to make much movement, and even MKWorld struggling to stay ahead of the 9yo MK8DX, the issue has more to do with NS1 software being just a tad bit too evergreen.

Switch 1 software was incredibly strong, yeah. But there's reasons for pretty much every case here, such as $70 being quite steep for a sports spinoff, Yoshi being quite unconventional, Air Riders being something of a cult game that's not the most approachable, DK having lost much of his IP power through a long absence, etc.

I wouldn't expect Switch 2 titles to necessarily match their predecessors, but I also don't think we can really write them off as wimpy just yet when we've had very few tentpole titles.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 16 August 2026