Topic: Switch 2: how was its year 2025?

@BonzoBanana
Yea, you’re right. There’s no point in actually sitting down and putting some time into something before judging it.

Worth repeating some of the rest of the discussion. The fact that the lines between generations blur for Switch 2 means that it's attach rate is always going to be weaker than it appears

As I said, I have 10 games I would personally consider "Switch 2 games". Most of them are not. Eg Prime 4 for me is as much of a Switch 2 game as BotW was a Switch game. In both cases I had both consoles but I purchased the version for the newer console and only played it on the newer console. But in terms of sales spreadsheets both of those purchases were a Switch game

Also worth noting that the end of 2017 included holiday sales, which we don't have for Switch 2 yet, plus a whole additional 3 months at the start of the year. So it's doubly handicapped on this metric. Really, it's just a bad metric to be using to compare the two

I would say if you want to compare software sales between the two you're going to have to do it between specific like-for-like releases, similar audience, similar budget, similar IP, similar price/bundle. Which at this stage I struggle to think of many (Odyssey v Bananza is probably the best, Zelda v Metroid is rough, Mario Kart is bad because it was bundled on S2). Also you'll want to do this comparison probably after around June next year so that the timing of the releases of both platforms in comparison to holiday sales doesn't skew you comparison

So, we finally got the "2025: Year in Review" from Nintendo, and it's not surprising that my top 3 most played games from last year were all Switch 2 titles:

I thought it was nice that this year they also gave us statistics from a longer period of time. So here are my most played Switch games from the last 5 years:

The game with the most playtime (in my case Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which I've played for 403 hours) is in the bottom right corner, and it goes down from there.