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Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas
Submitted 10 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/nintendo-switch-2-sales-stumble-over
Comments
DigDoug@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You mean to tell me that the kind of people who didn’t have to buy one at launch aren’t convinced by a library consisting almost entirely of: games they already own on Switch 1, games available for less money on other platforms, DK Bananza, and MK World?
b34k@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
This right here. The Switch 2 offers nothing compelling the more casual Nintendo fans, and is a huge purchase comparatively.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 41 minutes ago
It also offers nothing compelling for the hardcore Nintendo fan unless they just like to collect Nintendo stuff. No new Zelda, Mario, Luigi, Animal Crossing or Smash. I think Nintendo completely misunderstood the market. Mario Kart 8 is the best selling game on the Switch 1. So Nintendo probably thought they should focus on MK for the Switch 2 launch. But MK8 was not the main reason people got the Switch. Like for example they got the Switch for Animal Crossing and then bought Mario Kart as a side game. Mario Kart is universally like by Nintendo fans it’s just not a game that is on top of people’s wishlist. Nintendo fans don’t want to buy a new Nintendo console just for Mario Kart or Donkey Kong.
Price isn’t the main reason why sales are dropping. I doubt that every Nintendo fan with the means to buy one market already has one. Most are just waiting for a game they actually want to play.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Fuck Nintendo
Ledivin@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Good. I hope they choke on their new pricing
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Nintendo should stick to making hanafuda and riichi mahjong sets. Those are the only Nintendo products I buy now.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
I bought some hanafuda recently, but because I am boycotting Nintendo I went with a nicer set made by another company.
hayvan@piefed.world 9 hours ago
I bought a hanafuda set last year and i don’t know how to play but damn they are pretty.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’ve been playing since I was tiny, and it’s not much work to learn how to play! I’d recommend a game called koi-koi.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well, yeah. I already have one. My company gave me a $500 Amazon giftcard for Christmas even though I never use Amazon so I spent it on something I didn’t really want that. Besides that, even my neice amd nephew weren’t excited about it and were like “it only has like two games.”
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s also the thing. It came out in June. Prices will not go down. Everyone who wanted one already got one.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What a fumble of a product. PS5 all the way.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
It’s very expensive and it has no games
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
And even in the cases when you think it might have games, it turns out they’re not on the cartridge.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Truly, the PS5 of the new generation.