They don't in reality, but as we only get the views from the core minorities, who have been suggesting the Switch was doomed at launch, and needed a Pro version to remain relevant for years now, but all this time Nintendo just kept shifting hardware and games, as the mass market could not care less about any of this.
Can't remember any console having 6 games selling over 25 million copies.Calendar year sales for Nintendo Switch games that have sold over 25 million units
Wow, 23 of the top 100 are Switch games? Switch’s software sales are just crushing past Nintendo systems it seems. Even the DS with its +150M user base.
Switch is their only bucket. Sales are in steep decline YoY. They have to release a new machine in the next 1-2 year, they don’t really have a choice.
Hardware sales are in decline and soon software sales will be too. This will keep being the case until a successor or significant revision come out, so Nintendo will not want 4 years of that.
They did that mistake with the Wii.
Japan alone being so close to ALL of Europe combined is insane.Regional Hardware
For Year over year hardware everywhere was down but Europe and Other tanked the worst. For software Japan had it's best quarter ever, Europe was slightly down and Other was flat. The drop in software was almost entirely down to the America's declining by 9 million from a year ago.
The pachter strategy, keep repeating it and eventually it will be true.
And yet some still insist Nintendo are doomed without third party support.Top 100 Nintendo Published games as of 31st December, 2022.
Pokemon S/V and Kirby ATFL enter the top 100 knocking out Super Smash Bros for Wii U (5.38m) and the Gameboy version of Dr Mario (5.34m).
I think they hope sales will fall off a cliff, it really does not sit well with some, that a modestly powered console is so popular, even more so when it costs around $300.
Which people are tired of it, you, some of the core fans perhaps. We have to think a little outside the box with the Switch, as it's appealing to a different demographic than the usual core gamers.
The millions of people that have had one since 2018. I'm honestly not sure if it's this new generation of gamers or the late adopters or both that act as if 6 years on the market is 'not long enough' or 'too soon' for new hardware but it needs to stop.
The Switch is still selling games. look at report ever week on those charts. Wii never did that in its late life.
Don't agree with you, most will not even care outside the core fans.
Where have you been? Litterally EVERY other Switch video/article/thread topic is about Switch 2.
I don't think a month has passed since the Switch has launched, when there has not been videos of a Switch Pro, in fact it would be more remarkable if a month passed without one. Still all rumors until Nintendo releases some actual information. You want it to be true, but that's a lot different from suggesting a lot of Switch owners also want this.
It still can, if this year is another 30% decline were looking at about 14 million switches sold, leaving leaving the switch at 136 million, if it tails like the ps4 and only gets another 5% post successor it only hits about 142million,(though this would be weird as sony dropped the still healthy ps4 for extenuating circumstances) if it tails like most Nintendo consoles and does another 15% were lookin at just over 20 million more so 156 million
Current annual forecast is 18 million from 19 million a drop of 5.5%. Sales would have to drop 33% from 18 million to hit 12 million. What trend are you on about?
Nintendo might pull the rug out under the competition's feet for the holidays with a sustained price cut.
Yes but they don't want to wait till Switch hype fizzles out.
It's not like the table hasn't been laid; forums (like GAF) have been throwing shade on the near decades-old tech since the Switch's launch.
It may fizzle out but people are going to be keeping them for a while.
I think they will be looking at the situation very carefully, as they do not want a Wii to Wii U situation, although this is a very different scenario to the Switch.
My predictions are:
Switch software sales have started declining now so the successor is not too far away. 2024 seems like the right year.
