For Nintendo, the Nintendo Switch will be a success when players will be seen playing on the go at various places and with different styles.
Marathon was slated to launch on Sept. 23, 2025 across Xbox, PC, and PlayStation, but Bungie will share the new release date in the fall.
It will lessen though and possibly make all the difference if it launches in a state that rectified a lot of the issues people had with it. A LOT of ifs of course.
If you really gotta play ... play the better extraction shooter this year : ARC Raiders
They can't cancel it until a themed controller has been released first... like concord.
If they were absolutely certain about the quality of Marathon, then they had not delayed it just now.
So they've basically just confirmed what everyone, well, a lot of people saw: Marathon is not ready yet, still no soul to be seen.
"Doubling down on the Marathon Universe"
They're doubling down on soul, thank goodness this feedback illuminated that for them...
and N4G was littered with comments like : Marathon looks really good, maybe you're a hater and the likes blah blah ... especially under articles which compared it with Arc Raiders ....
Razer has revealed their new V3 Line for the Kishi mobile platform.
Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software data for Japan for week of June 2, 2025 to June 8, 2025.
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch 2 – 947,931 (New)
PlayStation 5 – 14,535 (5,690,661)
Switch OLED Model – 8,040 (9,060,680)
Switch Lite – 6,089 (6,581,795)
PlayStation 5 Pro – 4,230 (218,056)
Switch – 2,482 (20,109,545)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,017 (974,094)
Xbox Series S – 163 (337,686)
Xbox Series X – 113 (320,660)
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 57 (20,820)
PlayStation 4 – 24 (7,929,628)
So its official. Switch 2 dethroned PS2 in Japan for the biggest hardware launch ever.
Tripled the switch launch numbers, yeah Nintendo's domination of the Japanese market is going smooth
And take note. This is just for retail sales only; sales from the Nintendo Japanese website are not yet included.
success? it aint even out yet...more like potential if they do a 360 (not xbox) on all the bs involved
Nintendo, It's called "ONLINE".
Edit: I want to congratulate Nintendo for the recent discovery of the "INTERNET".
This sounds like the type of thing I've heard with other consoles. It doesn't seem to me like those worked out very well. What different styles? I don't see this idea taking off like Nintendo thinks it will. Could be wrong though. We'll soon find out
So, sales aside, they will consider it a success as long as people are seen playing it? That's sort of how I understand the quote.
The Switch could be the start of a new brand platform then (like the DS was) or a refocusing for the company perhaps--the switch could help get their name back out there like the Wii did but Wii U basically failed to do (not sales wise exactly or as a fad but sort of like how Pokemon Go had a lot of people talking about it even if they didn't care for Pokémon--a form of consumer based advertisIng).
I think it's a cool bit of tech but limited somewhat by different technologies and price (what really keeps it from One/PS4 level in its form factor today). I'll probably buy one someday (although i said the same for Wii U...).
If it's a totally new platform they want to focus on over several iterations though (like the DS), a Switch 2 could be awesome a few years down the line and today's is a nice start. I hope they don't give up on the idea (hybrid) since eventually the other big companies will be pushing that 4K/60 next gen onwards and a cheaper 1080/30-60 Hybrid with the same third party support and exclusives (Nintendo and third party) would make it a sweet deal and easier for masses to sign on with.