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@Jack_Goetz It's digital only. Why would it be a full price release?

@LazyDaisy Have you played Bowser's Fury?

@zool All Directs are commercials. There's nothing different with this one.

Why would they connect to the internet while using these things?

@Liam_Doolan Um, 85 tracks in total? The app has 115 tracks with a total runtime of 1 hour 34 minutes. Are there regional differences?

@astros75 You can give it your own rating and contribute to the joke.

@prw_88 "How many people will choose steam deck over SW2?"
Is that a serious question? You're still acting like any notable amount of people actually buy the Steam Deck? It sold below 5 million in a timeframe in which the Switch sold almost 50 million. And the Switch 2 is more capable than the Steam Deck and they still don't actually compete for the exact same audience as people who want a gaming console won't buy a Steam Deck.

Here's what metascores the various Mario Kart games got:

• Mario Kart 64: 83
• Mario Kart: Super Circuit: 93
• Mario Kart: Double Dash: 87
• Mario Kart DS: 91
• Mario Kart Wii: 82
• Mario Kart 7: 85
• Mario Kart 8: 88
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 92
  (MK Live: Home Circuit: 75)
  Some are higher, some are lower, notably the still very popular Wii entry.

If you wanna talk about how their games are rated in general, you would've had an argument im 2015 or 2016, but not nowadays.
Some of the other things you said are unsurprisingly mirroring exactly what people were saying in 2017. Especially with parents not going to buy it for their children because it's apparently to expensive.

What serious issues did most first party games have since TotK? Framerate issues for EoW and Endless Ocean was a disappointment. Other than that idk what you're talking about. Was Brothership disappointing to you? Not enough graphical upgrades for LM2 HD and DKCR HD? Are those "serious issues"?

Your price related questions all apply to the PS5 even more so. And yet even despite price increases on top of an already higher price it's going to cross 100 million sold.

Success after the Switch 1 is what success for any console is: selling a lot and making a lot of money. Over 100 million is the minimum bar I'd say, right now.

@hashkey "Yes, it's had a very good launch. No, a good launch doesn't always translate into a successful lifetime (the opposite also applies)."

While some less successful consoles had good launches like the Xbox One, this launch is way beyond any other launch ever before. This is not just a good or solid launch. With 1.1 million consoles sold from June 5th to 7th, not even including Sunday and also not including the mynintendo store, it sold more than the PS4 sold in the entirety of November 2013. With the mynintendo store the gap is so large it's not even funny. The same applies for it's launch in various other countries and worldwide. Spain, France, even in Portugal it had the biggest launch ever. A console with such a massive launch is not just going to die quickly out of nowhere and fail to sell 50 million units lifetime.

@prw_88 It's really obvious that it's going to keep selling and be very successful. The only way for that not to happen would be for Nintendo to either just stop developing games or make only mediocre to bad games all of a sudden.

@Blaeugh Just read the comment right above your's and maybe also the others criticizing them and you will get or understand the DF hate.

@TrogdorTheBurninator It's cheaper than elsewhere in Japan, but that's only because of the heavy inflation that Japan suffered and most people didn't get their wages raised enough to make up for everything getting more expensive. The Switch 2 is still more expensive than any console that came before the PS5 in Japan.

@MoldyPasta The PS5 didn't get outsold yet though. Soon, but not yet. That PS2 number is for it's own first week.

@Arawn93 Actually they both sold even more than Famitsu reported. They don't have access to the mynintendo store, which had over 2.2 million people apply for the preorder lottery. So that must have sold additional couple 100k at least. And back then I remember that Sony reported over 900k sold at launch because they sold about 300k through their own online store at launch whose numbers Famitsu didn't have access to.

@Strumpan No big deal.

@Strumpan PS5 is 4.5 years old, not 6.

@Spaceman44 You think Japan is a small market for gaming? Are you serious or is this a poor attempt at trolling? You clearly have no clue what you're talking about. It's a massive market, with the Switch having shipped over 37 million units there and mobile being obsenely huge. PC is also consistently growing. Only Playstation is smaller in Japan but still relatively big compared to most other countries.
Japan generates more gaming revenue than all of Europe combined. If that is still small to you, then gaming as a whole is a small business, despite being the biggest entertainment industry in revenue for several years now.

@Spaceman44 If France is a small market then every market in Europe is small. And only like three markets in the entire world are not. Namely the US, China and Japan.

@OldGamer999 In France the Switch 2 sold apparently around 200k at launch.

@Spaceman44 It's the third biggest market in Europe. Not small at all. Double the next biggest launch ever is a massive win no matter where it is. Same happened in Spain btw. Switch 2 sold 108k at launch with PSP being the previous biggest launch at 54k and PS5 at 48k and Switch 45k.
https://www.gamereactor.es/ventas-espana-nintendo-switch-2-arrasa-en-su-estreno-con-108000-consolas-1435633/
And all that despite not launching in November in peak sales season like those other consoles.

@Spaceman44 That's the UK. In France it almost doubled the PS5's launch and is by far the biggest ever. You could say the exact opposite in that case.
Like the article said, if you bothered to read it, Nintendo has had it much harder to break through in the UK than in other places. The Switch has not been able to surpass the PS4 there but worldwide it's ahead of the PS4 by over 35 million units. And if you paid attention, the Switch's launch was much smaller and yet it's still massively popular.
Also on the internet many people were largely negative about the Switch 2.

@spiderman0616 "Old Nintendo" wouldn't have just moved on with something else. They made straight sequel systems almost every time. NES to SNES, Gameboy to GBA and DS to 3DS. Wii U is a bit more different from the Wii but still had that name and a lot of motion control focus.

@CJD87 This isn't just a 10 minute introduction or demo. It's got a bunch of minigames that you can put several hours into.

@Suketoudara The Switch 2 is cheaper in Japan because of the massive inflation and wages not having kept up with it. 50k yen is already incredibly expensive for the average person there. They want for people to actually be able to buy it in the first place. That's also why it's region locked, to prevent mass exports from scalpers and the likes.

@Sylamp Capcom also putting in effort. That's great.

@Vyacheslav333 Kiwami 1 and 2 were not on Wii U. Wii U got the original versions upressed to HD with no other changes. And they released on there years before Kiwami 1 or 2 were made.

Edit: I see someone else already said this.

@Spider-Kev In Japan it's by far the best selling console ever after having surpassed the DS. The PS2 is fifth behind Switch, DS, Gameboy and 3DS.

@Bigmanfan It was always clear that Prime 4 would be 70 on Switch 2, just like DK Bananza.

@Cakefish Don't worry, they'll fix the issues eventually.

@Anakin On my modern TV Gamecube games look washed out and terrible. I had to fiddle around with my TV's settings for over 20 minutes to get Luigi's Mansion to look somewhat acceptable.

@Kingy Only if you don't care about Mario Kart, have already played all of the third party ports or don't care about any of them and don't care about other games such as Rune Factory. Appart from that, more reasons to get excited are coming shortly after launch, like DK.

@Anakin You seem to really enjoy ad hominem attacks.

@HHappyGoose88 The point is knowing the difference. Some people label everything AI nowadays, when it's not.

@sanderev They would've still called it Mario Kart 9. They said it clear as day. The idea that Nintendo considers Tour as Mario Kart 9 should never have existed to begin with.

Also to correct you, you forgot Arcade GP 2 and Arcade GP VR, which is why Tour is the 14th game in the series.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kart

@The21zonz He has teeth and separated eyes. Also his cap slightly changed and I feel like he has a bigger tummy now.

Just wait for a sale. Always wait for a sale.

@Ooyah One of the two leads on Hundred Line, I forgot which one, said that it's selling well. So I'm not worried for the studio anymore.

@JohnnyMind Clair Obscure did have a nice increase from it's last week's sales. So word of mouth is doing it's thing.

@YunoboCo Wdym they ruined him? It's minimal changes for god's sake. Mostly just teeth.

@OldGamer999 "Always said Switch 2 should have been out around 2022 at the latest."
And that's why you're not a business man. If anything 2022 would be the earliest if interest in the system dropped much faster than it did. 2023 would have been a likely target, but 2022 would have eaten into the Switch sales even without the pandemic and since you're saying "at the latest" 2021 would have been way to early.

@jwfurness Don't worry. The feature wasn't removed. Nintendolife just had to make an article out of speculation asap.

@AlanaHagues There's a typo with Mario Party's number.

@NotASockPuppet The original game didn't have time limits and was designed with that in mind.

The game crossed 100k copies sold recently.

@Elitepatriot Why, what are you even upset about? This is meant to prevent people from hacking their Switch and it's games and pirating them. Why are you supporting the pirates? If you just play your games normally like everyone else there won't be any problem.

@Jhena Yeah, I'd say so.

@ottoecamn I somewhat agree with that perspective, but I still wouldn't buy it on Steam just because of that.

@Jhena Gamasutra is right on this if they mean from launch until the end of March 2018. That is almost 13 months, but you can call that it's first year. 2.74 million + 15.05 million is almost 18 million.

@Jhena Statista is not very reliable, especially when they write that the Switch sold 143.4 million consoles worldwide as of August 2024, despite that being the exact number that Nintendo reported in August 2024 to have been as of June 2024. Aka they don't pay attention and don't actually understand what the company is reporting. What other stupid mistakes are they making?

I saw their graph of Switch sales they had a few years ago, where the number in a random quarter in 2019, for no reason at all went down instead of up by the reported number and since then the total number lagged behind.

Nintendo reported shipments of 2.74 million in March 2017 and in the following quarters 1.96 million, 2.93 million and 7.23 million. Then in the quarter ending March 2018 another 2.93 million. They only report shipments, also in various regions.

@Jhena Where did you get 13.12 millio from? Was that sell through? Because the shipment was 14.86 million in 2017 and 15.05 in the fiscal year from April 2017 to March 2018.

@SwitchplayerJohn They didn't have any previous estimates. That was an analyst. May still happen.