Comparing Wii U and 3DS to Nintendo Switch is not completely fair, of course. The product is very different to both devices, there will have been a significant cross-over between the Wii U and 3DS audience, and 3DS' price point was (and is) significantly lower. In addition, Nintendo's investment in smartphone games may effectively replace its legacy handheld business over time.
Nevertheless, if Nintendo wants to have a bigger generation this time around, then it needs to beat 85 million. The 100 million Switch sales figure that Nintendo has casually suggested in its financial calls now look more like a genuine sales target. It's been a decent first year, but we are a long way away from reaching those figures.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:
Switch 2 – 140,026
Switch Lite – 5,212
Switch OLED – 5,110
PS5 – 3,581
Switch – 2,442
PS5 Pro – 1,676
PS5 Digital Edition – 749
Xbox Series S – 107
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 47
Xbox Series X – 37
PS4 – 28
Nintendo - 152,790 units
PlayStation - 6,034 units
Microsoft - 191 units
Nintendo selling 25x as many units as the next closest competitor.
“ Nintendo Switch 2 still dominating in Japan”
Such a strange headline. I mean it’s a brand new console released on June 5th. It would be weird if it wasn’t still dominating in sales.
I figure its dominating everywhere. I stopped with consoles this gen sticking with PC and the switch will get 99% of the games this way.
Going strong sales! The Switch 2 was launched here in Southeast Asia on June 26. I was among those who pre-ordered. I got my unit the same day with Cyberpunk 2077, and there was a long line of people getting their pre-orders, not as long as the line when a NBA 2K series launched, but it was different because it will be released on all platforms.
I want to see how well the June and July world wide sales.
The Nintendo Switch 2 is more likely to be held back by software limitations than hardware limitations, according to a game developer.
It blows my mind that Nintendo didn’t bother to add the Hall effect to their analog joysticks after the NS1 was plagued by that. Is it too much for Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation to do a simple fix on their gamepads even if it costs a bit more?
I have someone who mods my controllers for me. A set of Hall effect modules are around 15$ retail. It should be standard these days.
Unfortunately, they could not use them due to the electromagnetic field from the magnets in the Switch 2 joy-cons, ironically it would cause drifting!
Any software that's released as a Game Key Card is an automatic skip so I can see that
Yes, for the most part.
Switch is doing very well, but gaming as a whole has become significantly more popular, so gamers are buying consoles much sooner than traditionally which is why the Wii U, PS4, XBO, and Switch all had some of the best launches of all time.
That being said the Switch also benefited from a full global launch Day 1, which is rare for most devices. It's also why the hardware supply issues hit hard globally, because the others can focus on a region(s) with less supply issue.
Overall the Switch is tracking above the XBO and below the PS4 and if it aligned with the launch of both consoles, it would be somewhere around 55m - 60m if it's sales stayed steady. So yes the Switch is doing very good.
Is it the huge mega seller people are acting like it is. No, but it's definitely tracking to on par to hit global sales matching the combined sales of 3DS and Wii U, which is a great turn around for Nintendo's console and handheld business, although they'd want it to sell more.
Yes. It's doing well here in UK I've noticed
Well it hit 10 Mil around a similar timeframe as PS4 so i would say so .
Yes, the question is can it keep it up? I see no signs of it slowing down, especially when that pokemon game comes out.