Not sure about that, there is always pride in this kind of stuff. Like how Sony wanted to ship as many as PS5 in a year as there were shipped Xbox (25 million), or how Nintendo's original forecast for this quarter would've put the Switch just in front of the DS.
Exactly, the Switch is doing those numbers without any PRICECUT… Which is insane. Still, surpassing the PS2 is almost guaranteed at this point, it just matter of time.
Yes, but let's not act like $130 in 2008 is like $130, now. $130 in 2008 is like $193 in 2025. Not much cheaper than the $199 for the Switch Lite.
Which were more expensive (especially the PS3) while the PS2 kept receiving new games until at least 2010 thanks to the Wii. They sold like 50 million after the release of the PS3, which is insane. It would've sell as much as the PS1 (105 million around 2006) if it wasn't for the rejection of the PS3.
I just love people constantly pushing this myth. The PS2 has one of the highest tie ratios of any system, something that gets harder the more hardware you sell, yet people love to downplay its success by saying people just bought it as a DVD player in the millions. Never happened. Gamers were now buying DVDs thanks to the PS2, which helped the DVD market. But hardly anyone was buying the PS2, which was much more expensive than a DVD player, just to watch DVDs.
TotK sales just prove BotW is insanely popular. A direct sequel selling 21 million in just under 2yrs is incredible.
I agree with that
I like how you completey ignored the part with 4 years more time to sell. which on it's own already makes the Switch thewinner. You don't have any numbers on how many people bought a PS2 for DVDs only. I neither, but it's a fact that they existed. It was an insider tip for movies fans, so was the PS3. Grant-aided hardware is great.
What consoles do you mean? Gamecube, Xbox and Dreamcast with combined less sales than the Xbox One? Or the PS3 nobody wanted until massive price drops? Or that one year Wii?
Well there is Pokémon coming by the end of the year + probably another generation (Game Freak hates launching a new gen on a small install base) so it will definitly push consoles
It's not the Switch's fault that it's a 2:1. It's a portable home console.
XCX wouldn't be on the fiscal forecast due to releasing a week before Q1 ended. We won't know how it did until end of Q2. Still say it should've been a Switch 2 launch window title, or at least be one of the games with a Switch 2 edition.
The colors and vibe of engage was offensive to me. I couldn't stomach it.
Which one is Engage, the one that looks like a Colgate toothpaste ?
I don't think anyone was blaming Switch? However, to ignore that it is a portable when comparing it to other consoles is silly.
Ok, if you want to differentiate mobile gaming an home gaming:
I still remember when people where dooming Switch in 2016 & 17 because the handheld factor "had no appeal because everyone games on their phones". Now It suddenly had zero competition
I still remember when people where dooming Switch in 2016 & 17 because the handheld factor "had no appeal because everyone games on their phones". Now It suddenly had zero competition
And it was NEVER SOLD AT A LOSS!
It's argumentative wanting the cake and eating it too mental gymnastics, really.
No, it's a hybrid. It's both a home console, and a handheld. It has some games that only work in home console mode, not handheld. It has two modes, it's both a Series X and a Series S at the same time, depending if you plug it to its dock (not to a charger) or not. It's not just a video out.
Fixed that for you.
It's argumentative wanting the cake and eating it too mental gymnastics, really.
> It's a "home console" when fanatics want it to beat traditional console sales.
But in the same breath.
> It's "a handheld" excuse gets wheeled out when it comes time to compare specs to traditional home consoles.
It's a damned handheld that has video out. Something the PSP, Vita and every cell phone the past decade did/does as well.
I don't need the marketing speak about traditional IPC hardware that portable devices have been using and plane switching power outputs whether it plugs into the wall or doesn't. Something cell phones and laptops have also been doing due to the same tech for decades.
It's argumentative wanting the cake and eating it too mental gymnastics, really.
> It's a "home console" when fanatics want it to beat traditional console sales.
But in the same breath.
> It's "a handheld" excuse gets wheeled out when it comes time to compare specs to traditional home consoles.
It's a damned handheld that has video out. Something the PSP, Vita and every cell phone the past decade+ did/does as well.
There are lots of normies out there that opted for this as their home console. We are not in that group, but the ability to tell Timmy to take the Switch and go play in your room when the football game comes on (American football, wankers) is difficult to quantify as far as keeping the family happy goes.It's argumentative wanting the cake and eating it too mental gymnastics, really.
> It's a "home console" when fanatics want it to beat traditional console sales.
But in the same breath.
> It's "a handheld" excuse gets wheeled out when it comes time to compare specs to traditional home consoles.
It's a damned handheld that has video out. Something the PSP, Vita and every cell phone the past decade+ did/does as well.
You need the facts, not marketing speak.
They will release a disappointing patch where they're not allowed to each anybody's lunch anymore
Ok.
You won't get a sales update for XCX DE next quarter or ever. The next quarter (1st April to June 30th) is Q1 of a brand new fiscal year and it would need to sell an additional one million units from April 1st onwards to get a sales update. Say for example it sold 900K in March and 300K in Q1 (April to June) then it would be at 1.2 million but Nintendo won't report it because it only sold 300K within the current fiscal year and it is not getting there when including Q2, Q3 and Q4 either because the series is heavily front loaded in sales with non existent legs. Nintendo doesn't give sales updates if a game sells one million, they only give updates if a game sells one million across an individual fiscal year (April 1st to March 31st), the only exception is if a game is in the top 10 of lifetime sales for the platform.
