DonnieTACO

A development lifecycle this long was only ever going to spell trouble

@BaldB3lper78 you sound triggered

@CurryPowderKeg79 yeah good luck with that

Oh man please someone shut the flood gates we're drowning here.

That comment reads like the hold up is on Nintendo's end. Probably withholding dev units 🤣

@Cathalm you can't grift if you aren't taking someone's money

@Truegamer79 when you say right up there with the PS5 version how do you mean exactly?

I'd be curious to see data of active units. I suspect a non-trivial amount of these haven't gotten much play in recent months.

Also, friendly reminder on Japan sales: there is a $340 version of the switch 2 available there.

Even more fascinating than the discourse around the DLC itself is the shift in narrative on the main game. Now people all over the internet are saying (and being heavily upvoted about) the game is good but got too repetitive/boring.

Friendly reminder these sales numbers include the $330 model as well.

Switch 2 sales have screeched to a halt globally

@HugoGED you do realize it's been almost 20 years right?

They are the same studio today in name only

What was that tag line a while back for Microsoft? Better on Xbox

Worse on Switch should get to trending lol there won't be a single 3rd party port to come to switch 2 that will even be on parody with other ports, let alone the superior version, and that's just wild to think about.

@Pillowpants imagine making purchase decisions on whether or not it's a physical cart and not actually on whether or not you're actually interested in the game itself

@abbyhitter best case scenario on switch 2 will likely land somewhere just under the series S version

Was gifted a switch lite back in 2020, probably played like 10 minutes on the thing ever since.

Prime 4 will be my first and only purchase on it ever. More importantly, because it's another switch 2 game also releasing on switch 1, Nintendo will not be getting my $450 + $80 to play it on their new overpriced jack of all trades, master of none.

@UndockedActionFemme lmfao

@SBandy1 here's a narrative: the fact Outlaws has sold as well as it has on switch 2 speaks far more about the current state of switch 2 games there are to play than it does about how good a game it is or isn't.

No one anywhere was talking about outlaws before the switch 2 port was announced. It's a star wars branded assassin's Creed

The thing that cracks me up about the game key card situation is that it's the biggest self-own switch 2 owners could ever bring upon themselves.

Like yeah, let those corporations know you aren't gonna buy their games. That'll teach them.

It's incredible how many games are just on Gamepass

@progx you do know that the PS5 came out 5 years ago right

35k? Isn't that a new low for the week?

Isn't switch 2 like $330 in Japan at that?

@quinnyboy58 when you have recently put down $500 for a shiny new console, and then things look a bit slim pickings on the "reasons you definitely need to own one of these things" front, you tend to get pretty amped up about pretty much any reason to play your new toy.

Wait so it can't run at 120 in portable mode? Silksong the side scroller? To me that is the news here.

How is this any different than Wii U generation? Since when did old, inferior 3rd party ports become acceptable again?

"Again, like the recently released Heretic + Hexen, there's no native Switch 2 version, so the 4K/120fps performance touted for the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S won't apply to the Switch release."

@Fighting_Game_Loser there's full motion video scenes instead of in-game engine. That's a big chunk of it

@YunoboCo it's because the game won't run at 60fps in a 4 player split screen scenario

I was just thinking switch 2 needs some racing games

Cool, I'll pick it up on xbox and play it literally on everything.

@LeJuiceCup well, some of their games still do. Fewer and further in between though.

https://youtu.be/jrwVh97n8Lk?si=jg0-mP_c9zGj0N4d

Sometimes the truth just hurts unfortunately. Right from a former employee.

@Bigmanfan all I'm saying is they certainly were confident in those first 3.5 million in 5 days despite no month end or quarterly end report 🤷‍♂️

@Bigmanfan "Their cap at 6 million is because they don't have solid numbers past June 30th."

You're going to have to help me out here, I'm very perplexed by this. They are literally the company selling the thing. They of course have solid numbers every single week. There are people in positions whose entire jobs are to project out and forecast into the future because they have exactly solid numbers to go off of. This is how for-profit business works across the globe.

@Bigmanfan "The over 6 million number is just them estimating that they've sold at least 200k units in the past 3 weeks which they obviously have. Pretending the new console has only sold 200k in the last 3 weeks is a little silly and clearly not understanding what it's saying."

Wait... What? If it's not saying that they've sold roughly 200k in the last 3 weeks, what even is it saying? Feel free to elaborate lol if you're implying that they've sold at least 200k but also literally anything higher than that? I find that hard to believe because if it was even 300K, Nintendo would definitely make that clear. Why would they say that they've sold at least 200k and it be way higher than that but them only cap the announcement at 200k i.e 6 million?

@Dr_Lugae it's all relative though. Go back and look at those sales numbers during those times in light of that. They were orders of magnitude greater than what is being presented for July right now @ roughly 200k through the first 3 weeks

@DonnieTACO @Bigmanfan where did I say anything about 5.82 million? Also, rjejr already corrected you as well with an elaboration of my original point.

Copy pasta'd for your convenience: "Switch 2 sold 5.8mil by June 30th. Nintendo said 6mil by July 24, which is roughly 200k in 3 weeks."

@rjejr "So while the holidays means greater sales than 3 weeks in July, they can only sell what they can make."

Oh, they can make plenty don't worry about that. What the July numbers are already telling us is that sales are trending down. Fans will say they're trending down because the supply isn't there, but that's simply unfounded, or else Nintendo would say so (ala the Wii). Also, they never had any issue meeting demand for switch 1 at any point.

Occam's razor always and forever, the The simplest most straightforward answer is likely the correct one and that is that demand is slowing compared to June.

So, let me get this straight.

Nintendo has sold 6 million switch 2s in 2 months.

In the first 5 days of those 2 months they sold 3.5 million? So in the remaining several weeks after they've sold 2.5 million?

I'm no analyst but I'd say that's a trend pointing down, not up.