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Phenomajp13 on 05 November 2025
firebush03 said:

Why is it that the PS5 fiscal report threads never devolve into the console war nonsense, whereas every time Nintendo gives an update, you have people arguing about the “software crown” (which TBH is a useless metric at this point since PS4’s figures are likely comically inflated by digital-only releases, and… well… Sony is a machine for third-party whereas Nintendo is for first-party), others arguing about “wow PS2 lives rent free in people’s heads huh?,” and then some trying to downplay NS1/NS2 figures? I don’t understand.

Because the current Playstations don't look like impressive sellers anymore with the Switch brand around, so there is a gross amount of jealousy and to cope they try to use sales records to make themselves feel better. The "market leader" despite all the 3rd party support and GTA lol is getting whooped. The counter is simple, PS2 was a fluke and the highest selling 5 platforms in history will be one day PS2, Switch, DS, Switch 2, and GB. It's the reason why certain individuals only speak about surpassing 100 million as the barometer for success when Nintendo is aiming for ~150 million each gen. Switch 2 has that type of potential.

Edit: My apologies for this post everyone, of course my favorite mod handled it appropriately ;)

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Tober on 05 November 2025

Reading Nintendo's financial update I still got a question left. I might have missed it, but I'm in the dark how Nintendo will report on the Switch2 Edition software sales.

Mario Party Jamboree got a shout out with 1.16 million sales on page 11 (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2025/251104_4e.pdf). But unsure if this includes the Switch2 Edition.

Are they added to the original Switch game's numbers or viewed as a separate Switch2 SKU and therefore only get reported on when selling more than 1 million in the Switch2 bucket? If the latter is the case, then no Switch2 Edition game made it over 1 million sales.

We might have to wait to end of FY year roundup to know the answer.



Doctor_MG on 05 November 2025
bonzobanana said:
Sephiran said:

If Switch 2 reaches 20M units shipped this FY, i wonder how grifters will try to keep the ''Switch 2 is bombing and is a new Wii U'' narrative going, i imagine they will soon shift to a ''Nintendo is lying about its sales figures'' narrative to try to keep their gravy train going for a bit longer.

By the way, if the current regional ratio of sales for the Switch 2 holds true for the rest of the FY, this will be the sales split for the different markets this FY (19M units)

The Americas: 6,65M units.

Europe: 4,40M units.

Japan: 4,29M units.

Other: 3,54M units.

I certainly don't think its bombed in Europe but those figures don't look impressive for Europe compared to other regions. The current 4th October week sales shows the Switch 2 only at about 40% of the sales of PS5 in Europe where as in the US and Japan it is significantly ahead. Europe has 750 million people compared to about 120 million in Japan and yet according to your figures they will be broadly the same figure. The price of the Switch 2 is about 50% more in the UK than Japan, £250 in Japan and £370 in the UK. I'm still seeing loads of Switch 2 stock about in the UK. Its no surprise to me that the Switch 2 is selling so well in Japan but much weaker in Europe. For some reason Nintendo seems happy to accept much lower sales in Europe with much higher pricing. I really can't see Switch 2 matching Switch 1 sales if they are willing to sacrifice the European market. As ever though this is the shipped amount of Switch 2 consoles and maybe they have increased production due to expected demand or perhaps they have just achieved a higher production figure and want to saturate retailers with stock to make sure they have high Christmas sales. 

I love video gaming but for some reason I'm also interested in how different consoles perform sales wise. So its going to be really interesting how it all plays out over the next 2 months. However possibly the more interesting news is going to be the collapse of Xbox sales, this is likely to give PS5 a huge boost in sales. That's me assuming the sort of people that would have considered getting a Xbox Series X will now go across to PS5 what with Microsoft now supporting the PS5 and broadly similar performance and software libraries. So I feel Europe will be the most interesting market to watch as there is more to play for really. You could say the US and Japan is a dead cert for a Switch 2 victory but it certainly doesn't feel that way at all in Europe. Switch 2 seems to have lost a huge amount of momentum but perhaps that will all change in the run up to Christmas.

Those Japan to Europe numbers align pretty closely with what the Switch 1 has (37.7M Japan to 39.5M Europe). So, while you're right that it isn't as impressive as other regions, it also isn't indicative of any dramatic change. 



Sephiran on 05 November 2025
Doctor_MG said:
bonzobanana said:

I certainly don't think its bombed in Europe but those figures don't look impressive for Europe compared to other regions. The current 4th October week sales shows the Switch 2 only at about 40% of the sales of PS5 in Europe where as in the US and Japan it is significantly ahead. Europe has 750 million people compared to about 120 million in Japan and yet according to your figures they will be broadly the same figure. The price of the Switch 2 is about 50% more in the UK than Japan, £250 in Japan and £370 in the UK. I'm still seeing loads of Switch 2 stock about in the UK. Its no surprise to me that the Switch 2 is selling so well in Japan but much weaker in Europe. For some reason Nintendo seems happy to accept much lower sales in Europe with much higher pricing. I really can't see Switch 2 matching Switch 1 sales if they are willing to sacrifice the European market. As ever though this is the shipped amount of Switch 2 consoles and maybe they have increased production due to expected demand or perhaps they have just achieved a higher production figure and want to saturate retailers with stock to make sure they have high Christmas sales. 

I love video gaming but for some reason I'm also interested in how different consoles perform sales wise. So its going to be really interesting how it all plays out over the next 2 months. However possibly the more interesting news is going to be the collapse of Xbox sales, this is likely to give PS5 a huge boost in sales. That's me assuming the sort of people that would have considered getting a Xbox Series X will now go across to PS5 what with Microsoft now supporting the PS5 and broadly similar performance and software libraries. So I feel Europe will be the most interesting market to watch as there is more to play for really. You could say the US and Japan is a dead cert for a Switch 2 victory but it certainly doesn't feel that way at all in Europe. Switch 2 seems to have lost a huge amount of momentum but perhaps that will all change in the run up to Christmas.

Those Japan to Europe numbers align pretty closely with what the Switch 1 has (37.7M Japan to 39.5M Europe). So, while you're right that it isn't as impressive as other regions, it also isn't indicative of any dramatic change. 

If anything, the fairly distributed Switch 2 sales to pretty much every region is the best sales split to have, because that means you have a very diversified user base in a lot of different markets. Nintendo sells a lot of consoles not only in the US like Xbox or have a big US/EU dominance like PS has, but they sell a lot in Asian markets like Japan and Nintendo is seemingly the bigger console company in South Korea as well. The large ''other'' sales also points towards China being a growing market for Switch 2. So they have a very diversified user base, while Xbox has the least diversified user base. I don't see how that would be negative for Nintendo, that they get people not just in the US and the EU buying their stuff.



160rmf on 05 November 2025

Meh... Dont bother with these guys. Let them dream on a worrisome future for Switch 2 and Nintendo



 

 

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curl-6 on 05 November 2025

According to Nintendo "supply of Nintendo Switch [1] hardware will continue if enough demand persists"

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2025/251105e.pdf



archbrix on 05 November 2025

Unbelievable Switch 2 numbers. Probably looking at 20m for the fiscal year if it sells similar to what Switch 1 did in its first Q3 and Q4 but a price increase could prevent that.

In any case, Switch 2's shipment numbers for its first 10 months will be unprecedented.



curl-6 on 05 November 2025
Tober said:

Reading Nintendo's financial update I still got a question left. I might have missed it, but I'm in the dark how Nintendo will report on the Switch2 Edition software sales.

Mario Party Jamboree got a shout out with 1.16 million sales on page 11 (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2025/251104_4e.pdf). But unsure if this includes the Switch2 Edition.

Are they added to the original Switch game's numbers or viewed as a separate Switch2 SKU and therefore only get reported on when selling more than 1 million in the Switch2 bucket? If the latter is the case, then no Switch2 Edition game made it over 1 million sales.

We might have to wait to end of FY year roundup to know the answer.

From what I can gather, physical copies of Switch 2 Editions like BOTW and TOTK count as Switch 2 software sales, but digital downloads count as Switch 1 sales.

That's just what I've read on places like Install Base, anyway.

According to the numbers we have, BOTW sold 300k and TOTK 220k this quarter, so those would be downloads and Switch 1 physical copies, while the physical Switch 2 edition sales would be tracked separately, for whatever reason.



bonzobanana on 05 November 2025
Sephiran said:

I mean when it comes to Europe, keep in mind that PS4 outsold Switch 1 in Europe, so its very likely that even if Switch 2 outsells PS5 in global sales that in Europe PS5 lifetime sales will be higher than Switch 2. PS is just more popular than Nintendo in Europe. I think France are one of the few European markets where Nintendo is more competitive with Playstation.

Other than that is seems you are letting your personal views cloud your judgement, Nintendo increased their sales forecast from 15M to 19M this fiscal year, meaning from the sales info they have, contrary to Switch 2 losing momentum it seems momentum is increasing. And if Nintendo ships 19-20M units in less than 1 year on the market as they currently forecast then its impossible to continue to spin any narrative of Switch 2 not being a very in demand system, even if it may be weaker in certain regions like Europe. But its global sales that is most relevant metric after all.

I don't think I'm letting my personal views cloud my judgement and I was clearly stating that it had lost momentum in Europe only but you seem to have changed that in your reply so it feels like your reply has added bias. You mention about France but retailers in France have been aggressively discounting the Switch 2 and we are only months after launch. Clearly I stated it was doing very well in the USA and Japan so I'm not spinning anything, again you seem to be adding in false information in your reply which again shows bias. Just for the record I do not own a PS5 and have no positive bias towards Sony just interest in how the Switch 2 is performing sales wise. I do have multiple Switch systems. OLED, lite and the original launch model. I do not currently have a Switch 2. However I'll admit I am mainly a PC gamer plus Switch and don't have current Playstation or Xbox models. I'm interested how the Switch 2 is performing in Europe in comparison to the US and Japan and feel price is a huge factor for this. Europe is a huge market roughly 20% of the world revenue in videogames.

My point in summary was the market which the Switch 2 has had much less success is also the market with the unfairest pricing.



bonzobanana on 05 November 2025
curl-6 said:

According to Nintendo "supply of Nintendo Switch [1] hardware will continue if enough demand persists"

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2025/251105e.pdf

Surely demand will continue for a long time as there are markets which are more price sensitive like South America, Africa etc as well as poorer nations elsewhere. Even in Japan the original Switch is still selling very well. Some prefer the more compact size and longer battery runtime. It makes a better portable system for many. It might be a while before the Switch 2 gets a more advanced model with longer battery runtime. I feel the Switch 2 has taken an extra step towards being a home console and one step away from being a portable system. It's a little more bulky and harder to carry. When I held the Switch 2 it reminded me of holding a wii u gamepad in fact I think it might have been wider. I do feel the Switch Lite remains the most impressive portable console on the market for conveniently carrying about and not careing about its weight and size. I have a feeling the Switch Lite may be the last Switch to go out of production in a few years.