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Kyuu 14 hours ago
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Slownenberg said:
Kyuu said:

The west's "FOMO" Switch 2 sales have been abysmal compared to Japan's May. August may be the last chance in a while to buy the Switch 2 cheap. With the Pokopia and FOMO boosts behind, Q4 is not looking good for Nintendo. Hopefully Ocarina is as good or better than we imagine.

I still think/hope Sony's shit PR and decisions will have long term consequences, but I'm surprised at how little they're affecting PS5's trajectory. If Sony makes solid holiday deals again or announce a price hike for Q1 2027 weeks in advance, GTA6 is going to give the PS5 a massive holiday boost (assuming no shortages).

Switch 2 should still win thanks to its current big lead and Japan's December, but maybe not by the wide margin some of us thought.

Oh that's a good point. S2 sales are very mediocre right now despite the price raise happening soon. Japan, the one place where S2 sales had remained strong ever since launch (up until the price raise at least), had a crazy huge rush to buy the system before price raise, but the west at least through Aug 1 is seeing exactly no extra interest in buying. Maybe when Aug numbers come in we'll see a boost, but the interest just doesn't seem to be there.

And I feel that. I could easily afford a S2, and the time to buy would be now with it about to go up in price and very likely will never be $450 again. But there's nothing on the system yet to make a purchase desired. Not a single must-have game on the system, and the only one coming soon is, as great as OoT is, a 30 year old remake. I'd love to be playing the new 3D Mario next year, but with it not even announced yet I ain't buying an expensive system that I probably wouldn't even get a single game for right now just because the price is about to be raised.

The scary part is if the rush buy did actually happen and countered a bigger decline (May-July sales may have been noticeably lower). If that's the case, September and October might be really weak. But we still have August to go, and the price increases in the US and especially Europe aren't as big as they were in Japan, so maybe people just aren't bothered and sales will remain steady after the price hike.

I think Switch 2's lineup is quite good so far, but naturally it'll improve over time. The only announced game I'm interested in though (following Metroid Prime 4's disappointing reception) is the OoT remake. Not buying an expensive Switch 2 for a single remake, but I might get one in a few years, or borrow one from a close friend or relative.