amazing

>>712447405 (OP)
>Wii U not even 10% below Switch 1
wtf happened? How did it fail?

it's over. nintendo has successively monopolized japan

>>712447405 (OP)
Where's the Wii?

>>712447405 (OP)
Wonder how many browns live in Japan

>>712447570
not recent enough

Big Black Console

nintendo will release the switch 3 with zero games and it will sell more than every previous nintendo systems combined.

if switch 2 cost $250 here i live i'd buy it too

>>712447405 (OP)
>Switch
>330,637
I wonder how people reacted. And were there even regular famitsu threads by then? I definitely wasn't paying attention to them.

>>712447924
>literally have to win a lottery to get one
>permanently locked out of import market
ehhh

>>712447405 (OP)
but why

>>712447405 (OP)
If the rumors that they spent a whole year manufacturing these things is any true, that would explain this massive launch.
Nintendo simply didn't had 3.5 million switch 1's on store, or Wiis or or...

Also it's pretty fun how the scalpers got fucked on that one.

>>712447662
nips are brown

>>712447570
Forget about the Wii, where are the Xboxen?

>>712447405 (OP)
Switch 2 is extremely cheap in Japan while in foreign markets it's much more expensive. If the Switch 2 was 300 bucks it will be completely sold out even in physical stores which is the equivalent cost of the Switch 2 in Japan.

>>712448780
nips don't buy xbawkses

>>712447570
Here here
*unzip dick*

>>712448208
sometimes they're pink

>>712447501
>>712447405 (OP)
>Wii U
wasn't that just an extension for the wii like the 32x was for the genesis??

>>712447405 (OP)
>PS5's numbers

>>712450286
Too big for most japanese homes.

>>712450162
Nah, it was the logical evolution of the Wii, THREE gamecubes glued together (and a bottom of the barrel AMD video chip).

>>712450912
switch 2's massive and seems to be satisfying everyone

>>712451334
It's not "record breaking" like the PS5.
The PS5 makes the OG Xbox look small in comparison, it's incredible.

>Japan
Absolutely irrelevant pedo island. Sony is number 1 in the rest of the world that matters.

>>712447405 (OP)
its nice to see japan get away from mobile gaming but when you consider the switch is essentially the replacement for the 3ds, wiiu, vita and ps4 simultaneously its still a decline in overall interest in console gaming.

>>712448093
its really fucking cheap there, if it cost that much here id pick one up and I dont even want one.

>>712447405 (OP)
Big Black Switch 2 is simply what everyone wants

>>712447405 (OP)
>WiiU got outperformed by the fucking Vita
Lmao

>>712450286
Nintendo's choice to prioritise the domestic market must have been a reaction to sonys complete collapse in japan. They probably realised if they wanted to remain japanese they need their product to do well in their own country.

>>712447570

>>712451018
>bottom of the barrel AMD video chip
The Radeon in the Wii U was really cool actually.
The weird 3-core PowerPC 750 CPU was the bottleneck in nearly every game.

>>712447405 (OP)
>>712452076
>starts better than the psp
>ends in a complete catastrophe
just sony

>>712447924
Switch 2 costs equivalent of $500 in Japan.
No, Japanese people don't earn dollars. They earn yen. Their wages didn't go up 50% when yen tanked 50% value compared to USD.
50,000 yen has the same spending power in Japan as $500 has in the US.

>>712447405 (OP)
>1/3 of initial sales are in Japan
Grim

>>712452187
Just because it didn't had SIMD like all the other CPUs released since 2000, including the one on the 3DS at a point the new 3DS has more CPU floating point power than the WiiU, it don't mean they sucked.
They were just.. MFLOP impaired and could do everything a non crippled CPU can if you give it enough time and care.

>>712452324
>50,000 yen has the same spending power in Japan as $500 has in the US.
this is consistently the most retarded board on this website and i blame discord tourists

>>712450912
>>712451473
That's just cope. If PS5 had games nips wanted to play they would've found space to put it in. Alas, it doesn't.

>>712452076
wii 370k, switch 330k, and every other console post wii era is 310-370k


this seems odd and maybe suspicious

>>712452549
There are tons of good games on PS5, it's just the japs only care about bing bing shovelware.

>>712452324
Not when you're talking about tech. Japan already got used to incredibly expensive price tags on gaming hardware so the switch 2 is a surprise to them also. In terms of tech prices everything was more expensive there than europe when I last went on holiday which indicates that Japanese people have accepted tech is expensive while food and basic consumer goods are cheap

>>712452526
Cope

>>712452550
Given all the "sold out" scandals on every nintendo launch except for the switch 2, i think that's basically the amount of systems they manufacture on launch.

>>712447405 (OP)
All that matters is that you find positive value in the purchase, no matter what it is or what anyone else thinks about it. Console warring needs to end, it's childish.

>>712452324
Hmm conversion is about 340 and certain aspects of living are more cheaper or expensive so hard to quantify that

>>712447523
And that is unironically a good thing.

>>712447501
WiiU debuted well enough and then fell off a goddamn cliff in like a month.

>>712452692
I'm wondering if they sold many consoles in Japan to ship elsewhere? I heard some people bought some Japanese versions during the whole tariff debacle

>>712447405 (OP)
>Subsidize sw2 price on japan by overcharging the rest of the world
>It sells like hotcakes there
NO SHIT

>>712447405 (OP)
Was I the only one who noticed that he made the black bard the biggest?

>>712452917
It did break records everywhere, except for the UK.
I think it's literally a matter of "nintendo just manufactured more machines and priced them higher to steal the money from the scalpers", and it largely succeeded.

>>712453239
meds

>>712453152
>sells like hotcakes in the rest of the world

>>712452681
Sure, but we can compare it with Switch.
Switch launched in Japan at 29,980 yen. Switch 2 (Japan only version) is 49,980 yen.
Switch launched in the US at $299. Switch 2 is $449.
The jump in price was bigger in Japan than the US and Europe.
Exchange rates mean jack shit

>>712452827
For you it's $340. For Japanese people it's 50k yen. They can buy 1 regular Switch and Switch Lite for that. You can't do that with the US for $450.
I'm talking about MSRP.

>>712450286
Good numbers for an american console.

>>712453518
And the ps5 is now double the price the ps4 launched at. This is what happens when your currency collapses, the UK faced the same issue after brexit and the new normal for tech prices has already been accepted. The fact remains the switch 2's price is below expectation for them.

>>712454213
>Below expectation
Yes, they expected lower, which is why they didn't buy. You dumbfuck.

>>712454373
retard, the ps5 went up drastically after launch, these charts are talking about launch sales when the console was much cheaper.

>>712453515
Yet there are a fuckton of units on every store I set foot onto. This shit isn't selling out.

>>712447405 (OP)
early sales is really just available stock

>>712447405 (OP)
fake and gay
there's literally no way the shitch 2's gonna be successful

>>712447405 (OP)
People just bought the S2 day one because of the S1. They knew what they were getting into. Let's see how this translates in the long term.
Also, Japan is not really representative because every other console has given up on the market.

>>712452549
Unfortunately the gross of the otaku population in japan left console moege for gacha mobileslop. Even then VN industry is dying out.

>>712447405 (OP)
Based nationalist Nippon

>>712447405 (OP)
>-ack

>>712454213
Tech didn't really get that much more expensive in the UK. The samsung galaxy S10 prebrexit was £669. Today the S24 is £750. That almost tracks with global inflation.
Before anyone goes ANDROID REE the iPhone is harder to compare because apple decided that phones should randomly cost $1000 one generation

>>712454654
Yes, it is not, which is why it reached 3.5 million units on launch.
Nintendo just manufactured a SHITTON of Switch 2 machines.
I bet they did like 6 million.

>>712455269
>I bet they did like 6 million.
You expect me to believe that they mobilized and entire global supply chain to produce 6 million Switch 2s (alongside a bunch of OLED 1s), including joy-cons, docks, and ac adapters, in under a year, with the threat of high global tariffs impacting shipments to the USA?

>>712455038
Prices on shit did go up to a noticeable degree. I remember when games were about 35-40 pond vs 60 dollars in America and now the prices are basically just 1-1 with the dollar costs. The prices on shit is fluctuating in recent times because the pound is strengthening.

>>712455458
>under a year
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-reportedly-delayed-to-march-2025-in-part-to-combat-scalping

It wasn't "under a year", it probably was more than a year.

>>712455620
>probably was more than a year.
Cool it with the antisemitism

>>712457382
You really think they can manufacture 6 million switches 2 in less than a year like that?
They would need a lot of factories running 24/7 while being on one of the biggest console wars.
Do you know how long it takes to burn an eprom?

>>712451502
deluded snoy. you lost and got raped

>>712452776
He says on a board full of children.
I agree, but you're barking up the wrong tree here.

>>712454654
this cope isn’t working