Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production
Carighan@piefed.world 1 day ago
Careful with these re-citations. The original Bloomberg article is ny Mochizuki, someone who has consistently pulled things out of his arse for years now.
Unless you’re currently playing on your Switch 1 4k Pro model that arrived ~2 years ago, I would not give much weight to this.
(and even if, the cited 4 mil sales is an insanely high number, even the Switch 1 only once managed an actual 6 mil quarter average for 24 mil in a year - but like I said, it’s very likely made up entirely, given the author)
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just because the Switch Pro didn’t come to pass doesn’t mean they weren’t working on one or planning one. He wasn’t the only one reporting that.
Carighan@piefed.world 11 hours ago
Sure, but it’s also far from the only time that guy has been making shit up, and that’s independent of the part where the Switch 2 is still the fastest-selling console ever (at least when it was last-posted after 7 months on the market it was), so it’s a bit of a weird point to make about “flagging demand” unless that’s an extremely recent thing.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
As far as I know from this evidence you brought, he has never made shit up, because the Switch Pro was happening, and then minds were changed before it was announced. The Switch 2 can both be one of the fastest-selling consoles ever and have less demand than they initially budgeted for. Something Nintendo has been doing with the Switch 2 that’s unprecedented with a home console launch, is that they’re trying really hard to meet launch demand rather than being more conservative with their production lines. It’s not surprising to me then that the Switch 2 only lags behind the Game Boy Advance, because from what I know of the history of that one is that the GBA’s design was settled shortly after the launch of the Game Boy Color, and they only postponed its launch because the GBC was still going strong.