>Record high hardware sales
>Record low software sales
how?

>>713353416 (OP)
The hardware is crap

>>713353416 (OP)
>sales thread
not video games. die mr. businessman

>only nintendo exclusives sell well on a nintendo console
to the surprise of no one

>>713353416 (OP)
Is the source from that cockeyed snoy?

>>713353416 (OP)
SHALL NOT BE BUYING GAME KEY CARDS

>how?
because there’s no software, retard.
N didn’t send out dev kits to most studios

>>713353416 (OP)
What 3rd party game does the switch 2 have? Cyberpunk? That's a 5 year old game. Yakuza 0? That game released a decade ago

>>713353416 (OP)
It launched with one game. ONE.
What were they even thinking?
That DK game should’ve at least been a launch title too.

>third party
convenient of you to leave that out, OP

yes people wont pay 80 bucks for old sloppy seconds on terrible hardware

>>713353416 (OP)
because this was the only good switch game

>>713353416 (OP)
The same way a 5090 sells when there's nothing to play. Backwards compatibility

>>713353416 (OP)
>mario kart is a game people can play for years and it's the only new game
>everything else is a port of a game everyone has already played
>people just buy cyberpunk as a mouse demo at most
Not sure what third parties expected, anyone buying a Switch 2 at the current price point is a diehard Nintendo fan that only cares about Nintendo game or a massive video game nerd that's already played those old ports on a different system. There's Switch 1 games people already own that are enhanced that they can play again at no additional cost too.

>>713354007
>people can play for years
lol

>>713353825
Why the fuck is he mad again. Who keeps doing that.

>>713353892
>Backwards compatibilit-ACK
not really boding well for goyvidya after their latest stunts

>>713353416 (OP)
IT STARTS WITH
ONE GAME

>>713353416 (OP)
>Record high hardware sales
fake
>Record low software sales
also fake because of see above

>Record high hardware sales
No, even in Japan there's a 90% drop in sales.

>cyberpunk
>one of the few non key card shit games is doing well
the mystery of the century

>>713353416 (OP)
I'm not buy 2077. Or any of the other third-party games at the moment. I will be getting Final Fantasy Tactics, Expedition 33 and Elden Ring on it when they're available

>>713353416 (OP)
>third parties release fucking nothing
>woooooooooow why is nobody buying our games?

>>713354313
why does it even matter? physical is dead anyway thanks to updates and dlc. the only way to own games is to pirate the game and all updates and dlc. that way corporations can't steal your money

>>713354180
Grim

>>713353416 (OP)
Because I wholeheartedly think Nintardo just lies about their sales
How come they are always the highest selling everything but no one has their consoles or their games and they are permanently in near bankruptcy?

>>713353774
Nah, MK would have eaten into DK's sales, should have released with the wheelchair game no one cares about

no zelda

>>713353416 (OP)
Reminder that the Switch 1 had 20% software sales on its first 4 weeks. The Switch 2 is still doing better then that.
That said, there are no good third party games for the Switch 2 right now that didn't come out on PC or old platforms already, so it's to be expected.

The games are simply too expensive. Especially after buying an expensive console and an expensive controller. Everything has gone up in price. Late ports for 100 CAD is too much.
That said, once people have recovered from spending so much on the console/controller/Mario Kart, I do believe the software sales will pick up.

>>713354173
Kirby’s Fuckin’ Pissed

>>713353416 (OP)
>Third parties are baffled that people would rather play Nintendo's largest franchise, Mario Kart, at launch

>>713353774
They were thinking correctly. Read the headline. Launching with DK as well would've just made their sales worse.

>>713353416 (OP)
As a PC + Nintendo gamer, this is the least surprising news ever. I buy Nintendo consoles for the Nintendo games. Maybe I'll double purchase a few extremely high quality titles like Skyrim, Dark Souls, and Hollow Knight but the vast majority of third-party schlock out there only appeals to franchise/genre enthusiasts who already bought them on other platforms.

>>713354441
Because you're a coping slav.

>>713353416 (OP)
the only game worth a danm was rune factory, the rest has been out for like 5 years or more

shits2 has no games.

>collect pokemon cards
>never play the actual game
I believe this sums it up succinctly

>>713354394
Why in the hell was Elden Ring not available day 1 but Sloppa 2077 was?

>>713354692
>those get scalped too

>>713354717
CDPR is desperate for sales after it flopped and investors pulled out of the company.

>>713353416 (OP)
isn't that the same thing that happened to the wii u?

It sold a lot fast early (which is the record sales boasted), but overall isn't selling as much as they would have liked in the long run. Also, there aren't really any games yet. I don't think people are that interested in buying older games for a newer system.

>>713354441
>no one has their consoles or games
>near bankruptcy
This level of idiocy and retardation should not be possible.

>>713353416 (OP)
Already been solved retard.
Backwards compatible meaning you don't need any of the one, singular, Switch 2 games released to play it.

>>713353416 (OP)
>Record high hardware sales

Sales are already slowing down at an alarming rate.

>>713354585
>That said, once people have recovered from spending so much on the console/controller/Mario Kart, I do believe the software sales will pick up.
I'm not sure about that, there's so many Switch 1 games they can play instead and the games that ran poorly got "free upgrade patches" just for hitting a stable 30 fps now on stronger hardware. The Switch 1 was a complete library reset so people bought more games early on to justify buying a new console but the Switch 2 will probably be like the PS5/XSX where people just play old games instead or even buy older cheaper games instead of these $70-$80 new ones.

>>713353661
All ports of old games.

honestly I want this to be a lesson to 3rd party developers they can't just sell you the same game on every console, people want new games on a new console otherwise why buy a new console, just buy the games on another console you already have.

Easily outselling PS5 lifetime sales.

Not the whole story.
Cyberpunk is third party and it sold well. According to the first reports better than Witcher 3 when it launched on Switch which was way later into the Switchs lifecycle.
Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma also sold decently - overall average for the RF series.
What both those titles have in common is the fact they are the only two third parties in the west released on an actual rather than the keycard thing. Those games flopped.

>>713353774
you're retard. it's better to space games out

>>713355001
I’m honestly surprise that level 5 didn’t push fantasy life for switch 2, its the kind of game that nintis love.

>>713354865
to be fair, it is weird how right of the massive money-printing success of the wii, they have 1 single year of losing money with the wii u (the rest of the generation they were profitable, if only by a little) and suddenly they're about to die
meanwhile sony shrugs off flop after flop

>>713354440
wanna know the funniest part? over 15 years ago goyvidya acquired ageia, the makers of physx, and made it exclusive to their hardware, then bribed devs to make them use it because they wanted to cripple performance on ATI cards. now that it's no longer supported, it also runs like shit on goyvidya cards

>>713354180
OY VEY!

>>713354846
>but overall isn't selling as much as they would have liked in the long run
It's out of stock? How are they going to sell more until they restock it?

>>713353416 (OP)
Calm down schizo. The system only came out 2 weeks ago. Every bought the system, Mario Kart and procontroller. They're waiting to get paid at the end of the month now.

>>713354456
>should have launched with the wheelchair game
wdym it's not out?

>>713355137
it’s my goty personally. I expect they will eventually as they are pleasantly surprised with the success of the game

>>713353416 (OP)
ONE GAME

>>713353416 (OP)
Tendies will be tendies
But they will also pirate any non tendie game

>record low
It's not only been too little time to properly track but that statement isn't even true

>>713353416 (OP)
tendies don't play anything besides nintendo games

>>713354423
who the fuck cares about updates and DLC?
The entire point of a portable console is that you just plug in a game and play, if you have to connect to mcdonalds wifi and download it first to play it then it defeats the main purpose.

Because people bought it hoping for a bunch of new games and features to make it worth the ridiculous price but the only thing to play on it is fucking Mario Kart and that came in a bundle pack.

Is record low software sales in the room with us?

Mario Kart World is literally the biggest launch game of all time.

>>713353416 (OP)
Same answer as last time jyrule. Scalpers. Plus the option is third parties everyone who wanted them has already played else where. Why are people suddenly retarded?

>>713355151
nintendo had all their eggs in the video game basket, sony didn't. it's like how xbox can fail forever but microsoft still turns a profit. nintendo is slowly branching out now with movies and theme parks too.

>>713353774
Literally the best move possible. MK is the best selling nintendo game. They're just front running all their customers. New games will feel like new releases because everyone will have a switch 2 by the time they come out.

>>713355090
This.

There's too much fucking shit to play and never enough time.

>>713353416 (OP)
How? Because a salty journo, Christopher Dring, lied through his crooked teeth and other journos (and /v/tards) immediately picked it up to shit on Nintendo as always, that's how.

>>713355380
>the only game for a console that it was also bundled with
>has a big launch

>>713355491
Also outrage "content creators"

>>713353416 (OP)
the problem is games like yakuza, cyberpunk, etc. already played on pc and just buy the switch for nintendo games and people that only buy nintendo games don’t give a fuck about third parties
>>713355275
it honestly seems like a huge miss chance, they could have market it to the animal crossing/ Stardew valley people and it would have gotten 3 million sales easily

>>713354441
Shame the shareholders don't call them out on this. Lots of people gonna lose money when they realize they've been bamboozeled.

>>713355532
Sony fanboys will lie through their teeth and say Playstation had better launches with games like. Knack...

>>713354423
Isn't the entire point of the switch to be portable?

>>713353416 (OP)
backward compatibility?

>>713355001
No third party wants to commit to exclusives now though. Ys Proud Nordics was announced as a Switch 2 exclusive and then a bit later Falcom announced a PC port will follow exactly 3 weeks after the Switch 2 release. Timed exclusivity is getting shorter and shorter.

>>713354576
20% of what?

>>713355151
Who says they were about to die? They could have three Wii U-type failures and they would still have been fine. The Nintendo warchest wasn't a meme. They're just a really conservative company.

>>713353416 (OP)
Tendies got baited into buying a portable brick console

>>713355689
I’m just saying everything you said amounts to a participation trophy. how could mkw have had poor sales? all it had to do was show up

>>713353416 (OP)
Hardware sales data comes from nintendo
Software sales data comes from a variety of third-parties
I hope this helps!

>>713353515
tpbp. Anyone who wanted to play Cyberpunk or Elden Ring already did so a while ago.

>>713353416 (OP)
Tendies got baited into buying a portable brick

>>713353416 (OP)
What third parties are there even?

>>713355737
i didn’t known that, glad they not taking one fucking year for ys x

>Mario Kart World
Best selling launch title. Record breaking sales. Will keep selling even in the future.
>Cyberpunk 2077
The 2nd best selling game. Shows what the Switch 2 can do in terms of hardware and also one of the few games not on keycard.
>Zelda BOTW and TOTK Switch 2 Edition
Both sold pretty poorly. No surprise with the Switch 2 upgrade being free for Online Expansion pass owners. Most people already own those games and not many will pay fullprice again
>Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Sold okay as expected for a new Nintendo title even if its bad and digital only
>Fast Fusion
Actually selling pretty well. The low price helps for sure.
>Split Fiction
Doing okay. Middle of the pack
>Hogwarts Legacy Switch 2 Edition
Seems to be doing alright due to it being another big impressive title. That said. It would never sell as much as CP2077 due to Switch 1 Hogwarts existing.
>Rune Factory GoA
Punching above its weight. Being a non-keycard ame helps.
>Bravely Default
Doing okayish. Probably because its only 40 bucks. But digital/keycard only sucks.
>Hitman
Another impressive Switch 2 release. Not new but enough content for people to find it appealing on the go.


The others meanwhile didn't do all that well.
Konami especially flopped hard with their new Survival Kids and Suikoden releases. Civ7 bombed super hard but that game is also known trash. Deltarune didn't match the hype probably because most play on PC. Those barely caught attention. SEGA meanwhile shat the bed with dumb title choices.
>lets make people pay full price for a better Shadow port
>lets release a shitty Puyo Poyo 2 port
>Yakuza 0 Directors cut barely made it into the top10 and even that only during the first days - then people realized it butchers the story and simply doesn't add enough to justify its high price

>>713353416 (OP)
What made me disinterested is the slow roollout of Switch 1 patches. is they were committed more to tentpole titles getting a graphics patches, I think people would see this new matching as actually mattering more beyond just a worse than Mario Kart 8 machine.

>>713354846
Really misleading because there is not more demand nintendo just provided more supply this time they've been having shortages since the wii at least

>>713355879
Both are just Asian releases for now, the localization will take longer.

>>713355151
Playstation and xbox are subsidiaries of sony and microsoft, meanwhile nintendo ONLY do vidya so if they’re failing in that department they have nothing. Nintendo need to succeed to stay afloat, meanwhile the other consoles will never ever die with who’s behind them
>>713355137
I mean it did get a switch 2 upgrade once the system came out (albeit with a price tag)

>>713353416 (OP)
What games?

>>713355907
very few people talking about this but it’s a large factor. best X in (arbitrary timeframe) is always grasping at straws

>>713355692
it's very portable. just buy a microSD card, and don't forget to make sure that it's express :^)

>>713355969
well, fuck me.

>>713355491
These faggots will always just copy each other's homework because it would kill them to actually investigate anything as part of their journalistic work

>>713355151
they weren't about to die retard

>>713355901
Will they even release more patches? I haven't heard any talk about new patches since it released.

>>713353416 (OP)
Besides Mario Kart, where's there to play? Donkey Kong is probably going to be massive.

>>713355463
I feel like people don't understand that they did this on purpose. Because it's exactly the lesson Nintendo learned from the WiiU. Back then, developers were complaining that their releases got overshadowed by first party games, so the WiiU's launch period was left to third parties. You can just see it in their E3 presentation that year where all they had was Nintendoland, and everything else is about ports and third party games. It was a disaster and they're never going to do that again. What they're doing now is going as far as to tell third party developers, hey, don't release your games now, let us build up the customer base first. I suspect that's also why Nintendo's being so stingy with devkits.

People bought the Switch 2 because they wanted to be "in" on something, not because they actually care about playing games.

Literal meme console

>>713355491
You're misrepresenting the case just like Dring is. Go look back at the Switch 1 launch games, Cyberpunk alone is probably outselling all of them but that doesn't mean much because the Switch 1 third party lineup was horrendousl.
>Just dance 2017
>Skylanders
>Bomberman R
>I Am Setsuna (digital)
>Shovel Knight (digital)
>Fast RMX (digital)

>>713355884
>Most people already own those games and not many will pay fullprice again
BOTW/TOTK are for those that missed Switch 1 but those who buy Switch 2 day one already own these games. I think it will change as more and more buy Switch 2.

>>713355380
No that's wii sports.

>>713355232
>The system only came out 2 weeks
and already flopped beyond redemption
F
lets all wish furukawas replacement the best, I just hope he cries into his millions instead of killing himslef

>>713353416 (OP)
Nintendo is the first party console.
With japs making games for PC, now it's only normalfags that play Mario and Zelda because they still don't emulate

I dunno what the /v/irgins gain at spamming multiple threads about the supposed low sales of third-parties, as if they will suddenly stop the support of the Switch 2.
It's not like the Japanese third-parties in particular have the luxury to skip Nintendo these days, as the Japanese home audience is practically on Switch nowadays, and trying to pander to the gaijins is a red flag when it comes to toning down anything 'problematic'.

>>713355789
>their forecast was wrong
So what was the claim in 1991 and how much did had they sold in 1991

>>713356142
it certainly got the pedos riled up

>>713355352
>that nigga who stopped playing games 20 years ago

>>713356128
Splatoon 3 recently got a patch along with some new content which was outside of the launch day upgrades, not to mention with a lot of switch 1 games there’s data to enable upgrades the switch couldn’t handle. Very likely we’ll get more, but dripfed rather than dropped at once

>>713353416 (OP)
The only thing on the shit besides Mario Kart is games people likely already own.

>>713353416 (OP)
Backwards compatibility maybe. If you don't want Mario Kart and the other games that are offered, you can pick from the Switch's library or replay games you have.

>>713356234
>"already flopped"
Kill yourself you disingenuous fuck.

>>713356258
>Nintendo is the first party console
>Outsells the other consoles on thirdparty titles every month anyway

>>713355209
Out of stock where? It's in stock in my local stores

>>713353416 (OP)
Tendies bought it because it's Nintendo
Not because they want to play video games. They want to eject their mouth so big that it catches flies while shooming around empty mario kart

>>713353416 (OP)
>Still posting this when it was debunked.

>>713356119
why did iwata halve his salary so they "wouldn't have to fire anyone" then

>>713355306
>Switch 2 is the best selling console of all time ever!!!!!! Sony and Microsoft are FINISHED!!!!
but what about the games, tendie-kun?
>STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!!! IT'S TOO EARLY TO TALK ABOUT SALES FIGURES!!
>SHUT IT DOWN
>@NINTENDO @FBI @POTUS DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!

>>713353416 (OP)
There are literally no games except for MariKa.

>>713355884
does the switch two come bundled with anything else?

>>713356540
>debunked by random bluesky loser
LMAO

>>713356276
>I dunno what the /v/irgins gain at spamming multiple threads about the supposed low sales of third-parties, as if they will suddenly stop the support of the Switch 2
Not a lot of devs were able to get devkits until launch, and with them seeing 3rd party games like theirs all flopping, why would they bother? Sure japs will support it, but a good chunk will probably keep their stuff jap-only. As for any other western dev, it looks like too much work for almost no return. Same reason the wii u saw no support

>>713353416 (OP)

Look at the list of 3rd party games and tell me if you would play any of them or if you have already played them somewhere else.

>>713356639
The platform doesn't matter as much as their actual authority.

>>713356609
Nope you can only get Switch 2 without anything or the MK World Bundle.
And Nintendo sold way more MK World bundles than originally expected considering some base SW2 consoles had to get repurposed into MK Bundles though stickers.

>>713356431
No matter how loud you screech, Nintendo will still dominate this generation Eric. You should start lubing up your ass for another 8 years of buttfucking.

>>713353416 (OP)
Everyone who bought it so far did it to play Mario Kart

>>713354846
>long run
it's been two weeks

>>713356756
>analyst
That doesn't actually mean anything. Unless he has actual figures hes talking out of his ass

>>713356547
Are you actually retarded enough to believe a ceo taking a mere paycut means the company itself was on thin ice?

>>713356704
>and with them seeing 3rd party games like theirs all flopping, why would they bother?
The PS5 had worse third-party software sales around its launch period, as far as I recall. But again, the real reason why the most reluctant Japanese third-parties have started supporting Nintendo since 2023 was because the PS5 still didn't have a healthy userbase two years after its launch. Already doomposting about third-party sales two weeks after the Switch 2's launch smells like desperation from certain online users.

>>713356426
>me me me everything in the world revolves around ME!

>>713356054
Well the article is more about the games than the hardware. I really doubt game purchases are that hindered by console purchases being out of stock. Don't the 3.5 million+ players that have swapped over have an interest in buying games, albeit even previous titles? It hasn't been a month yet so we'll have to see, people might just be waiting.

>new console releases
>months to years later, a hack comes out that mostly only works on launch-era firmware
>if you have a console with that old firmware, you can then play every game for that console for free
>if you updated or bought later, you are shit outta luck, maybe some modchip or other complex hack might get made years or decades later, no promises
>in many cases hackers don't even bother with the later firmwares and hardware revisions since they've moved onto newer consoles
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people are buying Switch 2's to keep in a closet and waiting for a CFW to appear.

>>713357152
He works at Circana, you dumb fuck. You know, NPD? Of course he has the numbers. He's not Pachter.

>>713357154
Yes

>>713353416 (OP)
Firstly, anyone who is an idiort and either has a PC or a PS5/Xbox has zero reason to get any of the other 3rd party titles.
Secondly, most switch 2 buyers are playing either Mario Kart or enhanced Switch 1 games. Why drop 60 bucks on hitman or cyberpunk when you can play Zelda at an actual good framerate for the first time ever?
Thirdly, this isn't even a new phenomenon. How many people bought shit like Tekken Tag 2 or Mass Effect 3 when the Wii U dropped?

>>713353416 (OP)
Why do you fags keep posting this same article and source? It's probably an ea kike or io one. hitman and split fiction are the two games I don't see move at best buy and gamestop

>>713357378
You do realize they take and make estimates. These are the same fags that said assassin's creed shadows SMASHED all records and sales for two months.

>>713356802
Wow that sure is a fair comparison

>>713356802
Anon the mario kart bundle always had a sticker. Stop being a liar.

>>713357454
Well then either go fuck yourself or graduate highschool and join the real world already

>new games and first party games sell well
>lazy years late ports on one-time download codes flop
based tendies, keep at it until the third party devs either put their games on carts or they die

Its a console for people who can afford gaming PCs, so only exclusives are being bought. The Nintendo-only customers have been priced out.

>>713353416 (OP)
people only care about mario kart and even that game is losing hype

>>713356276
It's because of what happened with the Wii U. Sales on the Wii U were so bad they stopped making games for it because they sold more on PS4.
Problem is PS5 is such a dumpsterfire they don't actually have an alternative unless they go PC. And once JP third parties go PC and see success console gaming will be dead.

>>713357796
Nah I'm seeing more families and kids playing mario kart now. I'm guessing it's getting easier to find it in stores now. I don't get why people are pretending the switch 2 game sales are low. If you want to see something sad compare the current sales to the ps5 launch. Only sports games and call of duty moved there

>>713353416 (OP)
Third parties did not release a single compelling new, exciting game for the new console. No one is excited about ports of games that are like five years old

why would you buy third party on anything other than PC?

>>713353416 (OP)
>>Record low software sales
>how?
handheld games used to be $40 like 10 years ago and now they're $80, but everyone still makes the same amount of money they made 10 years ago.

>>713357881
Shine post not doing too well was a little upsetting, but it was a full 70$ game

>>713357716
Bro, there were literally pictures of this happening. Stores ran out of the bundle and had to make the bundles. They were given stickers and info on how to do this, yet stores still didn't do what they were supposed to do. So yeah, there were makeshift MKW bundles sold that had no stickers.

No games

>>713357976
Post them then. In all the stores I've seen and comparing to my friends consoles. They're all the same

>>713357875
>Only sports games and call of duty moved there
thats how it always was

>>713355151
Nobody ever talks about how the PS3 had to be carried by Sony's TVs and they almost dropped out of the console business

>"The second year of the original PlayStation was very hard. I was very concerned," Yoshida began. "PS3 was another hard time. At the time I was part of management, so I could see the financials. We were losing a billion dollars. I thought PlayStation was finished. But luckily, at that time Sony's flatscreen TVs were hugely popular. The TV group was making enough money to cover the losses from the PS3, and we were able to survive. But that was the most difficult time."

>Yoshida describes the situation as a near-fatal catastrophe for PlayStation, which is somewhat surprising. The PlayStation 3 was a low point for the company in terms of how culturally relevant it was during its life cycle. This was the only period of the so-called "console wars" where Xbox was a legitimate competitor to PlayStation commercially and in the zeitgeist. However, the PlayStation 3 still reportedly sold 87 million units, surpassing even the Xbox 360 according to Sony's numbers.

>>713353416 (OP)
People buy Nintendo for Nintendo and now their games are so expensive they have no money for anything else.

>>713356309
>That anon who has never played a portable console outside his mothers basement thinks internet connection isn't an issue

>>713353416 (OP)
Scalpers dont play games

>OP seething about Nintendo yet again
You'll always be a shame to your parents and the reason why your father left.

>>713357847
>And once JP third parties go PC and see success console gaming will be dead.
Good joke but you forgot the important point that capable gaming PCs are more expensive in Japan
And again, I consider any Japanese third-party skipping the Switch, aka the actual Japanese gaming system, to not be worth anything. I'm not interested in games pretending to be Japanese but meant to be sold to foreigners instead.

>>713353416 (OP)
Just needs time to catch up?

>>713358067
It's literally not, you have to be in the middle of bumfuck nowhere to have internet problems in 2025.
>but it's supposed to be portable!
Then download it at home first, stupid.

>>713357951
Shine Post used AI to voice their idol songs, it deserves to fail.

>>713358056
It was 200$ more expensive than competitors for like a year. They’re lucky anyone remembers who the fuck they are

>>713358205
Did it really? I didn't hear about that and I keep up with nip gaming news

>>713357928
I found this particularly infuriating with pokemon, you get games that are worse than the 3DS games that retailed at 40, and you have to pay 90 dollars for the full experience when you could wait and get the third version for 40 in the past

>>713358195
>you have to be in the middle of nowhere to have internet problems in 2025
What fantasy world are you living in?

>>713353515
this. the best selling 3rd party games are all nintendo exclusives too like momotaro or monster hunter rise
>but minecraft
minecraft has nintendo content
>>713353661
cyberpunk and deltarune both sold pretty well
fast fusion is exclusive and its fine but only has 12 tracks at launch

>>713353416 (OP)
Most are buying it just to play their older games better. Have you tried Age of Calamity on the Switch 2? You can actually play it now!

>>713358341
Reality.

>>713357716
NTA but there's 2 separate bundles.
https://youtu.be/0GbefGsgUkw?t=1247

>>713358205
yeah Shine Post uses AI in order to morph the VA's pitches as it's possible to see the idol girls fail at singing if their stats are too low
then again, /v/ loves to be outraged at everything regardless of the context or their knowledge of the game itself

>>713355884
I doubt Bravely Default HD Remaster is doing well at all. Physical keycard DRM slop and digital sales aren't that high. And yes I like BD but I will not support digital faggotry.

>>713357152
The article from OP is also from an analyst you stupid retard. He also doesn't post any hard figures either. The cherry on top is that the article in OP's faggot post using data from the guy you're bashing fucking kek. Anybody seriously taking this article as fact is a just showing how low their IQ is.

https://www.thegamebusiness.com/p/it-was-the-biggest-console-launch

>>713357928
>release a handhled
>only make console games for it
no idea what made nu nintendo so scummy

>>713358441
Huh I'll be damned. Sorry dude. At my stores it's only been the sticker bundles

>>713358273
https://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/202506040002/

>>713358528
Other games do that by having the actual seiyuu sing, however if you read that article above they used it to enable all the girls to sing all the songs. Meaning they used AI for the regular singing too.

The reason why 3rd parties never give a fuck about Shittutendo, Nintendogs just don't buy games

>>713358067
>playing portables before the switch and after dlc
holy virgin everyone was playing mobile at that time

>>713358606
I bought the physical nip copy. Sorry anon. I want these game key games to die, but I also want to play it properly. We've had the gay localized one here since the 3ds days

>>713358395
this. bought TOTK for switch 2. practically no load times

>>713353416 (OP)
$80 games nobody wants. People are buying a Switch 2 now while they can and will wait for the actual good games next year. And wait for a sale. From GameStop, since Nintendo themselves never have sales.

>>713358781
>>713358395
Most of my games play about the same if not just a bit smoother. The only one's where I can say it's a huge difference is Bayonetta 3 and Hyrule warriors deluxe. Atelier yumia also stays locked to 30 fps in it's graphics mode now as well, but it's not a huge leap

>>713353416 (OP)
The world is healing

>>713358664
That's a shame then. I'll wait for a sale. I was planning on getting that next from play asia.

>>713358606
It charts so its atleast doing better than +50% of the other launch titles It's also a very lazy re-release which probably didn't take a lot of effort. This should be a 20 dollar game.

>>713353416 (OP)
Remember when the Kinect was the fastest selling consumer electronics device in history? How a third of all Xbox 360 owners bought a Kinect? And then absolutely nobody ever bought Kinect games?

>>713355305
I'll pirate tendie games like Age of Imprisonment too because musouslop is worth exactly zero dollars

>>713353416 (OP)
People got the hardware and are now waiting for the games. I see no problem with that.

>>713353416 (OP)
The current switch 2 third party lineup is mostly ports being sold at full price that people could have purchased either at full price or a discount years ago on other systems. Once new releases release on the console the numbers will likely improve.

>>713358664
yeah and like I said, the AI is used to morph their voices in order to have characters randomly create false notes
but you're such a low-IQ nigger who wants to be outraged at inane things, so kindly kill yourself already.

>>713357726
awww, did the tendie get twiggewed?

>>713354961
That's just Nintendo created artificial scarcity, they don't even sell the S2 on Amazon.
The game sales being low isn't surprising, the S1 despite it's install base wasn't exactly a juggernaut in game sales, Hogwarts, Minecraft and Mortal Kombat 11 had huge 3rd party sales, the Monster Hunters did okay but everything else struggled.

>>713355246
No, so far it has a nebulous "Q3 2025" release window

Shit is expensive

>>713355246
>>713359325
I hope that game just comes out and fails already. It reeks of corporate nintendo pandering. I love nintendo but I hate the modern progressive push. I blame that faggot doug bowser

Bought a Switch 2 vanilla. Playing Switch games on it. Not buying $80 games. Jerking it to Yunaka from Fire Emblem Engage.

>>713353416 (OP)
switch 2 has no games

>>713359278
No, they use it for having them sing certain songs in general as well as stated in the article. Konami cheaped out, this shouldn't come as a shock. Shine Post failing is objectively a good thing because of this because it might dissuade other companies from trying something similar.

>>713359518
Anon if we're being fair. It already has

Mario kart

Survival kangs

Shine post

Yakuza zero (technically a new game)

Donkey kong next month

There're already at a better pace than sony and microsoft.

>>713359309
Nintendo pulled out of Amazon (US only) over a year ago because the jeets kept fucking up sellers listings and breaking street dates. They're slowly putting stuff back in though.

>>713353416 (OP)
Wasn't it like a week ago? And journos are only clickbaiting with it now?

>>713356756
>some guy at video games LLC
very trustworthy. no clickbait or fake news (((Mat Piscgoldstein))) is on the case right? unless it's anti-Nintendo then it's very fake

>>713359485
If you really wanted mario kart you could just buy a code for 40-50$. I was able to get one for my friend who only found the stock bundle for 45 on a trading site

>>713359336
>tendies going into debt to buy a Bait and Switch 2 with no games
>so broke they couldn't afford a game anyway
time to start KLARNAMAXXing

>>713355328
>tendies only play games they specifically bought the console for
shocking

Games are too expensive, most of the games are ports of older games, and the game key cards are scam. It also sucks to see that loading off of the cartridge is significantly slower than loading from the built-in storage or even a micro sd express card (MKW 25 sec on cartridge, 15 sec digitally). Just weird all around, most people probably don't know about the load time thing at this point but they will. Nintendo fucked up the cartridge situation, probably intentionally.

>>713354180
What causes this?

>>713354441
Yeah, I find this odd too, the switch 1 supposedly is doing almost PS2 numbers, and yet everybody and their mom had a PS2 back in the day yet I see almost no one with a switch, hell, everyone had a wii and gameboy back in the day and those sold worse than the PS2 yet I saw them far more often than I did the switch, same goes for the DS and 3DS and maybe even the GBA, and it also extends to the game sales, Luigi's mansion 3 sold over 10 million copies and yet it's never brought up anywhere, while bloodborne which sold only like two million copies is talked about even a decade later, this also applies to pokemon, SwSh and SV, games nobody likes and had no cultural impact supposedly sold more than gold and silver which were a sensation and widely beloved, nothing adds up.

>>713359961
While I don't' recommend any of these services unless you use them right. I've seen many dumb blacks and spics pull out ps5s with progressive leasing. I'm not allowed to warn them, but it's always sad yet funny at the same time

>>713357525
>when you can play Zelda at an actual good framerate for the first time ever?
They used to care about framerate before BotW, thankfully you could play BotW on PC very early and TotK before it even released on PC at 8K 60fps.

>>713360072
There's just more people in the world. A smaller proportion of the population has a Switch than had a PS2, for example.

>>713360072
Maybe you should leave your house more often.

>>713360072
You only go to 4chan and don't talk to gamers or those in that niche. That's like saying why am I only finding basketball fans and black people at a basketball court

>>713360042
RTX 5xxx series doesn't support Physx on 32bit games, only 64bits, and guess what Mirror's Edge is?

>>713360006
I doubt it's intentional, we've just reached the limit of what cartridges can do at reasonable price points. Even then, reasonable is stretching it because Nintendo had to raise the price of their games by $20 to facilitate it.

>>713353416 (OP)
Tendie behaviour defies rational explanation.

>>713353416 (OP)
Everyone forced to buy a second Switch 2 after the Staplecaust and the Brickerings.

>>713360006
>>713360227
I tend to buy my games physical, but I did notice that my few digital switch 1 games load a lot faster. Does this really also apply to switch 2 games? I'd figure it'd be using faster memory

>>713360260
>bricking
but enough about the PS3 4 and 5 melting themselves after a few hours of normal use

>>713360072
Nintendo handhelds sell a lot more to a single user and that's always been the case since people double dipped on the Game Boy Pocket and then Game Boy Color despite owning the OG brick.
>v1
>mariko (much better battery life)
>lite
>oled
Anyone that loved handheld play could have bought 4 consoles by themselves. A Snoy could buy the PS5, PS5 Slim, and PS5 pro but because the PS5 was more expensive, they probably aren't. A Switch Lite + OG Switch combined cost as much as the MKW bundle or a launch PS5.

>>713353416 (OP)
The paradox of modern consoles. Everyone hypes them as like it is the 2000s, they sell even better than the 2000s but they have no games.

Switch games dominate the market tho

>>713359735
It's not hard to search and find the guy seems neutral, simply relaying figures as they are without either console winning or being doomed.
Here's a random one from last year.
Not everything is clickbait, sometimes you just take a figure as it is and see how that changes over time since things aren't always immediately apparent, especially with a brand new console.

>>713360301
Yeah. An online game full of all digitalfags would load faster than a game that has even a singe physicalfag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQnJaEh-bA

>>713358690
this wasn't the case with switch 1

>>713358690
see >>713360503

>>713360301
Depends on the game, Cyberpunk is basically no different but Mario Kart is like twice as fast digitally.

>>713360000
>there is a group of adults who only play games made for small children
>this is perfectly normal behavior

>>713353416 (OP)
Good morning sirs

>>713360503
It's hard to make a judgement on Switch 2's 3rd party successes since everything carries over from Switch 1. A sale of a game for the original console might be intended for playing on the new one.

>>713359287
>baby talk
nailed it

>>713353416 (OP)
People are too poor now and pc gaming is just too good and more convenient
Also lower birthrates

>>713353416 (OP)
>Tendies buy the system day 1
>Not realizing the rest of the world doesn't give a shit
A tale as old as time

>>713359687
>kangs
wut

>>713353416 (OP)
tendies only boughered for mario kart just like they did for wii sports back in the day

>>713353416 (OP)
I got a Switch 2 yesterday and I am shocked at how fucking wrong the third-worlders here have been. It's the best piece of hardware I've ever used from Nintendo.

>>713360647
Games being accessible to children doesn't mean they are made for them. It's like saying games with an easy difficulty are made for journalists.

>>713360643
>game loads faster by 2 seconds means I should buy digital
Nah.

>>713359427
Yeah, it will most definitely bomb worse than arms, has that 1-2 switch stench to it, I'm convinced it only exists as a game to appease investors asking where's the diversity so that nintendo can point at it as evidence of their commitment without compromising their existing franchises, nevermind that they turned pikmin into body type slop, lol

>>713358378
>Rise
>Nintendo exclusive
I get what you're saying though.

>>713353416 (OP)
>third parties surprised people didn't buy into the key card scam

Will third parties learn the lesson or continue?

>>713360863
Good morning sir

>>713360072
only 4 million people have a s2 you fucking moron the significance is the time span wait a few years at least

>>713360871
Yeah dude keep on reading Harry Potter in your 30s, just because it's accessible for children doesn't mean it isn't for adults!

What are the odds that there's only 4 people in this thread who actually use the word "tendies". The frequency of seeing it is from those few people making a lot of posts instead of it actually being a widely used term.
It's been years but it still sounds so childish that I struggle to believe and self respecting adult would actually write it.

every gen i think to myself "right, i'll get a nintendo system this time" but i never do. i just don't have the love for nintendo games to justify it

>>713358395
I was actually shocked at how much better Scarlet and Arceus runs now. Starting new games in both of them today.

>>713360503
>It only takes 5,000 games sold to be a top seller in Japan
Nintendogs are out there buying 5 copies each kek

>>713360468
Yeah, I can see this being a reason, if I were to buy a switch I'd buy two, an OLED to play games legit and physical copies and an OG switch for homebrew and to lend to the wife and kids

>>713360863
>third-worlders
Most of the seething comes from mutts

>>713360468
This is actually insanely bullish because any switch 2 revision will seem cheap in comparison

>>713360970
Good morning.
>>713361098
Nah, Nintendo made sure a majority of Switch 2s were available in America, even over Nippon.

>>713361026
You faggots are the new snoys

>>713361062
Haven't gotten around to Arceus yet, hope that by the time I do so I can afford a switch 2 and that there's a revision that patches out the DRM by then

>>713353825
FUCK I love this game
I would kill for a Kirby MMORPG like this with an interactible hub area and more customization

>>713360954
Cartridges are more expensive than CDs so since everything third party is multiplat, they either continue or go digital only. Worst case scenario is that if digital only doesn't sell either, they just stop porting games. Physical simply isn't an option, they lose too much money on every sale that could have been made digitally or on another platform.

>>713361026
>What are the odds that there's only 4 people in this thread who actually use the word "tendies"
>It's been years but it still sounds so childish that I struggle to believe and self respecting adult would actually write it
And “snoy” is any better how?

>>713353515
Imagine how much better Nintendo games would sell if they were multiplat

>>713361175
SAAAR YOU ARE THE SNOY NOT ME!

>>713361020
Oh so you're one of those that only plays mature AAA movie games to show how much of an adult you are? I hope you grow out of that someday.

>>713360981
I was talking about the switch 1, not 2, learn to read nigga

So we can agree that its over for nintendo?

>>713360863
I'm having a blast

>>713360791
I was joking and being mean, but compare the original to what they did to it. It's survival kids

>>713361314
Pretty much. It will be an N64 or Wii U-like

>>713360863
why would it be worse than things that came out a decade ago

>>713360503
>Famitsu
>Always ignoring most chinks buy nintendo products though japanese shops

>>713361061
I can sort of understand the point, but by not having the system you also can't play whatevers on it. Simply watching footage isn't the same for gameplay rich titles.
I guess you can emulate but that's reliant on both an emulator being available and that things actually work as they should on it. You're then playing with controllers that aren't what was originally intended.
You're also missing out on multiplayer.

>>713353416 (OP)
...there no third party exclusives right now outside of bravely default...
And while I loved it on 3ds, team asano killed all trust in their products eith garbage like bd2, triangle strategy and octopath 2

>>713360863
If the switch1 never existed and we only ever got what the 2 currently is everyone would have creamed their pants. It's a great piece of hardware, people are just upset about the pricetag and the fact that nintendo didn't come up with a whole new console

>>713361020
That book is intended for children though. Whereas something like the emporer has no clothes is far beyond the mental capacity of most US adults despite being written at a first grade level.

>>713361245
That's a whole other thing. I don't particularly like either but the question still stands for both.
What are the odds that it's a really small group of people that push both and worsen conversations for everyone by acting like stupid children.

>>713354441
I suspect this when they need show data and obviously avoid achievements because it would expose the scam

>>713361172
Every time i'm hearing about switch stocks it's always from americans not finding them in their local game stores. None of my friends here in europe complained about shortages either. And some japs still can't get one due to the still ongoing lottery bullshit.

But i wasn't talking about availibility, most of the crying is about the dollar value of the console and games, on the other side non-americans always talk about what it costs in their currency.

>>713361291

>>713361263
about 0 copies more snoys only buy fifa duty

>>713360072
I can buy botw being popular but normies barely even talked about totk
Apparently 20 trillions bought it but the thread is always the same schizo samefagging and posting the same articles over and over

>>713361304
bro everyone has a switch that makes even less sense

>>713355151
To be fair Sony is a giant in a lot of other industries, like cinema, anime and music, not to mention audio equipment, TVs and other electronics. They got plenty of money to throw around

>>713358205
>AI
Isn't it basically the same voice bank stuff as vocaloids?

>>713360180
You tendies are literally the ones using this place as le cultural impact

>>713361579
>If the ps4 never existed and we only ever got what the 5 currently is everyone would have creamed their pants. It's a great piece of hardware, people are just upset about the pricetag and the fact that sony didn't come up with a whole new console
This is what Nogamez copium looks like

>>713361726
you lost this after soifacing and trying to act like astrobot was the greatest game to ever exist

>>713361726
nintendo games are literally harder than ps though

>>713361905
I don't even own a PS5 you dumb tendienigger

>>713361824
most of their divisons suck ass actually playstations has kept them afloat most of the time not the other way around

>>713361905
If it was on nintendo you would shill it as hard as you shill dk, marketer.

>>713361904
You're completely misunderstanding what I said. Nowhere did I mention games, my argument was strictly about the hardware. Yes the PS5 is a great console, it having no worthwhile games is a whole different discussion

>>713361792
The games are talked about on playgrounds and daycares

>>713362031
Kids talk about roblox and fortnite these days

>>713361970
must suck being poor

>>713361726
Exactly, if you want to fellate yourself about how sophisticated and mature your entertainment is and how that somehow makes you a better person you should consider growing up.

>>713353825
>he boughted gem apples

>>713362076
Are you saying you are a snoy?

>>713353416 (OP)
backwards compatibility, numbnuts
turns out switch 2 already has hundreds of games

>>713353416 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5KeAXu62M8

>>713353825
>A kirby where you only fight
No thanks

>>713362161
>backwards compatibility, numbnuts
>turns out ps5 already has hundreds of games
Nogamez coper

>>713360072
Nintendo is the yakuza, not kidding

>>713361263
Substantially worse? Why would Nintendo bother making a game that barely breaks even like Star Fox or Metroid, when asset flip Mario sports games sell x10 as much?

>>713362009
DK is a good example that they'll shill anything first party. Most people are tired of these action games with skill trees and equipment bloat that have plagued AAA gaming for years, no one here is excited for something like Ghost of Yotei. Those were massive red flags to see in a DK game and the BotW glider that's been hamfisted into tons of games shows up too and it's cringe. Just like how games that added Detective Vision/Witcher Senses/whatever it was called in AssCreed were cringe as fuck.

>>713362310
Most people who talk about 'no games' don't even know what they're referencing.
It's about how the PS3 didn't have first party OR third party games for the first year or two due to the weird cell architecture.
Now, it's about how <system> has less than <arbitrary number> of games that fulfill <arbitrary and random criteria>

>>713362326
>yakuza origins
>strange assassination deaths of higher ups in the company
>run by bankers
Illuminati for sure

>>713356180
To be fair it was nintendo coming out of one of the worst consoles in history, of course no one wanted to touch them. Switch 2 on the other hand is them coming out of one of the best consoles, they have no excuse

>>713362510
>It's about how the PS3 didn't have first party OR third party games for the first year or two due to the weird cell architecture.
Lawl backwards compatibility, numbnuts

>>713362525
Don't forget the masonic elements in games such as mario 64

>>713353416 (OP)
It's just the same fake old news but now is a "woman" recycling it. It's selling better than switch 1 third parties launch. Also most people will buy the console for Mario kart and play just that for some time before buying more games.

>>713356180
I Am Setsuna is kino tho

>>713362009
>no argument

>>713356426
Sold out in all of Germany, for example.

No games to buy.

>>713363231
>greentexting yourself

Do people not realize that third party games are also available on Switch 1?

A lot of my early Switch 2 games have actually been Switch 1 versions of the game I bought on the Switch 2 eshop.

>pay $10 for welcome tour
>can't play half the games if you don't have a 4k 120hz hdr TV
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpO8TnUZuD0

Nintendo can't keep getting away with this!

>>713353416 (OP)
Depends who you ask. My first console since the Wii, so me & my son are in hog heaven now w all the back catalog. Bonanza looks good.

>>713353416 (OP)
Tendies only buy (select) Nintendo franchises. They're scared off by anything that isn't colorful and cartoony, like most third parties or Metroid.

>>713363482
Princess Peach Showtime is a game. Armored Core VI is not a game because it's not exclusive.

There’s barely been third party games worth buying for the last 6 years. I still enjoy mocking the retards that bought Anthem for it to be cancelled 2 months later.

>>713363908
Armored core 6 has souls slop slapped onto AC fucking ruining it. All the retards that act like Dark Basedls is the hardest shit ever creamed themselves while killing the franchise worse than AC5.

>>713353416 (OP)
>launches with 1 exclusive
>comes included with most of the console sales
hmm that's a tough one

>>713353416 (OP)
I don’t even know what most of the third party games are besides the fact that they’ve been out for like 5 years at least. You need to advertise or something.

>>713356704
You people are moronic.

>>713357920
Some games are more comfy to play on handheld. Like Deltarune.

>>713355001
Todd Howard managed in in a cave with a box of scraps!

>>713365382
And why would that be, or are you just asserting it?

>>713365963
That's what the steam deck and rog ally are for tho

>>713356570
????
Did you read the post?

>>713365382
You people are mad

>>713361263
They would be making jack and shit because you're too naive to realise that those games would suffer when there's so many other options on other platforms.
Pretty sure their userbase in Japan would up and vanish too.

>>713361078
Thats physical only and physical is only like 20% of sales at this point

It comes with the only new game.

>>713354961
>Sales are already slowing down at an alarming rate.

Why do people pretend to be sales analyists?
Go try to buy a Switch 2 right now.
Then try and figure out why sales slowed down.

>>713369075
>Go try to buy a Switch 2 right now.
Marketing jeets have gone off the rails.

>>713369075
That’s the thing, it’s so obvious you don’t need to be one to see the writing on the wall. It’s genuinely unbelievable