electrolite77

Strange decision.

Sunshine isn’t great for a Mario game but it’s still a decent game.

3D World is superb, often a bit underrated and got a Switch rerelease.

Missing 3 and World is just plain outrageous.

15% of sales being from Switch 2 is hugely impressive. That’s a lot of Nintendo games and games on Switch 2 in the top 20 as well

I don’t play any Video Games for the story really. Video game stories are generally mere place fillers to keep the game moving from point A to point B. In terms of quality they’re sub standard action move fodder. If I want a story I can read a book.

Another momentum builder. With Yoshi, Rhythm Heaven and Splatoon Raiders due in the next 9 weeks it’s hard to see that dropping off

@BaldB3lper78

What on Earth has given you that idea?

I played it, gave it about 3 hours to see if I liked it and no, could not get on with it at all. Hopefully they don’t bring it back. Not only because something new would be better but because they’d have to fix the Godawful controls and give the graphics a serious spruce up. Might as well make something new for that effort

“Capcom's multi-platform original, Pragmata (for which only 13% of sales came from Switch 2)”

13% is a good number for Switch 2 sales. I know we don’t have definite live numbers but I’d suggest a ratio for Pragmata sales of 6.25 to 1 in favour of PS5 is surely good. PS5 will have outsold Switch 2 by more than that.

In fact I reckon it will have outsold Switch 2 by more than the 8.25:1 ratio for Resi Requiem sales

Capcom continue to impress. Not a Resi fan but still give it a go. Great to see a Nintendo system getting third party games like this on release. It’s something I’d like to support rather than do the classic Nintendo fan thing of finding an excuse not to buy it and wondering why Third Party support is lacking. Or the modern Nintendo fan thing of ignoring a game as I might not be able to redownload it at an undefined point in the future when i may not even be alive. Feels like a Capcom have been on a hot streak for years now, back to the SNES days where their logo at the start of a game almost guaranteed quality.

A single player Splatoon game is a really intriguing concept for someone like me who loves the mechanics but doesn’t have the time/inclination to get into and keep up with the multiplayer

@MoldyPasta

Fair enough, but the result is accelerating an all digital future which means less choice for consumers than what we have now

@MoldyPasta

Buying Digital instead of a GKC is what they want to do. It’s accelerating the all Digital future they want.

@Axecon

It’s not a Nintendo game

Not bothered about the GKC bit and I’m not a fan of this type of game anyway but I think it’ll struggle at that price

Not a particularly enthralling update

Probably an optimisation issue, and that early lack of dev kits causing an issue

Sounds what I expected. A giddy spectacle that my kids will love while I wallow in nostalgia. Good fun for all the family.

@Itsashame

I get the feeling that, for a Nintendo site, there’s a lot of posters on here who don’t actually like Nintendo games 😂

I would like all of these things to be true please

@-wc-

I’m probably being optimistic that they’ll do that. They’re probably looking at Sony now and thinking ‘we can get away with 10 per cent rises easily now.’ Even if they have to chip away by putting the price of NSO Online, Pro Controllers etc up it would be worth doing.

The absolute best thing Nintendo can do is find a way to hold the Switch 2 price where it is. I don’t know if that’s possible but the way prices elsewhere are going it will quickly start to look good value.

@-wc-

Yeah Sony went first, then Xbox in late 2022 using Starfield. TOTK gave Nintendo the excuse they needed to follow. I think the post Covid inflation was always going to lead to some upward movement and they and they all find their own convenient points

@-wc-

https://www.eurogamer.net/sony-sets-the-price-of-some-ps5-launch-titles-at-gbp70

Call of Duty Cold War was on Series X and PS5 too

Well, this is something a lot of people have wanted for a while. The main reason cited for not doing this in the past was not upsetting retailers. Sadly it would seem the physical market is declining to the point they can ignore that. Yoshi is priced at what has become industry standard since 2020 though oddly in the UK it’s cheaper than DK Bananza whereas in the US they’re the same price (for the physical release).

Really not sure about this update. Sort of feels like a few loose bits cut from the original and unfinished ideas slung together with a resolution increase.

I’ll read a few reviews, if it looks like we’ll get some family value out of the multiplayer maybe I’ll go for it

Not a vintage year TBF. MKW and DK are great, Hyrule Warriors and Metroid Prime 4 are good, but Drag x Drive got slated and Welcome Tour really should have been a pack in.

@-wc-

I think Mario World is the only pack in. And that was Nintendos last pack in game until Wii Sports if I remember right. I actually think the only systems that have had Mario at launch are NES, Gameboy, SNES and N64. The GBA and DS launched with ports I suppose.

@Alcea

Very true. I could understand that after the way they behaved in the 80s and 90s a lot in the industry wanted them brought down a peg or two. These days them failing would be an utter disaster for the industry.

@Thecure

What a ‘Burn’. I’d cry like I’d heard a ‘Lullaby’ but ‘Boys Don’t Cry.’ Sigh, ‘Why Can’t I Be You?’

@Otoemetry

Yeah it’ll be the end of year report in early May where we’ll see if they made that 19 million target

@Cyberbotv2

It’s getting that way. It’s become a little enclave of posters aching for Nintendo to fail, just replying to each other in a little echo chamber going ‘see it’s failing’ ‘yeah I said it too, it’s totally failing.’

It’s baffling to watch, you feel like the kid in the Emperors New Clothes trying to get them to acknowledge reality a little bit but, yeah, it’s not worth the effort. There’s saner places elsewhere.

@Porco

Their original target was 15 million by end of March. They revised that up to 19 million and look likely to achieve that. Without Zelda, Mario, Smash, Animal Crossing, Splatoon etc. ‘Fastest selling system of all time’ isn’t relative.

@cyrus_zuo

It’s selling really well. The mainstream might need Mario or Zelda but to people like me who’ve been around Nintendo a long time it’s been great to see them being quirky and launching a system with some spin offs, niche titles, Metroid etc.

@Porco

Switch 2 is selling really well. They’re unlikely to drop the price especially with questions over tariffs and memory prices and they don’t know. BTW PS4 outsold Switch 1 in 2017 and 2018, PS5 is in its prime, it should be outselling Switch 2.

@Kiyata

See post #139. I prefer to get my facts from sales figures reported to the stock market than ‘some random on Nintendo Life saw something in Target’

@PharoneTheGnome

“ Weren't we told that the PS5 was a failed system that didn't sale?”

Who on Earth is ‘we’ and who on Earth ever said that?!

@Bizzyb

There’s some that I guess are desperate for it to fail for some reason and are resorting to simply pretending that it is. Meanwhile I saw this o ly an hour ago

“US Nintendo Switch 2 hardware installed base compared to other consoles after 9 months in market (Feb 2026 for Switch 2):

PS5 +29%
PS4 +30%
Wii +34%
Switch +45%
PS2 +56%
XBO +61%
XBS +73%
3DS +96%
360 +120%
NGC +139%
WiiU +302%…. Remains 2nd fastest selling hardware in tracked US history (1995-Current) behind only Game Boy Advance.”

https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3mhsoz6j6pk2l

@Kiyata

It’s sold in record breaking numbers, regardless of what you saw on store shelves. They’re on course to meet their target of 19 million sales which in itself was revised upwards from their original forecast. They’re rest is your imagination and desperate extrapolation.

@Lord

Does ‘shocking’ mean ‘highly successful’ now?

The confirmation bias in these comments is hilarious.

1 source with a poor history of Nintendo/related accuracy claims a slowdown in production, off the back of a hugely successful record breaking launch and a hugely successful fully exclusive game released this very month and the comments are full of ‘see, it’s struggling, and it’s struggling for the reasons I say it is.’

Meanwhile https://bsky.app/profile/matpiscatella.bsky.social/post/3mhsoz6j6pk2l

Great stuff. Get them, the EU!

@Glassneedles

Thanks, got it.

This has been my regular Gaming site for years but been coming on less. Anywhere else I go Online it’s old news, and discussion is more about Games than the delivery method of games and access to them in 2050. Maybe I need to use the Ignore more. I’ve crossed the Rubicon now.

How do you ignore people on here? I think it’s time

@2dmike

Doom 2016 and Eternal were he first games I thought of when I saw this

@conditionals

It is isn’t it? Normally in the past Nintendo BC has meant games locked to looking and running exactly the same

Oh they really did it?! I’m genuinely amazed. Been hoping for this since last June. Great stuff.

@uncleMike

“ The Mental Gymnastics on display to turn a stock issue into a W for the anti GKC camp is absolutely priceless”

Exactly. We’ve now reached the stage where a(nother) GKC game selling well is somehow evidence they’re not selling well. It’s all getting a bit tiresome TBH.

@ShonenJump121

Given that one is Digital and one is an alternative to Digital that retains some of the features of Physical they’re not the same.

@PharoneTheGnome

Everything you’ve said is entirely plausible and likely. I’ve no idea why it’s confusing you so much.