Nintendo Switch 2

[Gentlegamer]

He'll just claim the manbaby sleeve is ironic.

 

[Taiso]

I am so glad I never got that brand of sacrifice tattoo on my neck. I toyed with the idea for a few years and never pulled the trigger.

I'm already enough of a nerd without douchey tats.

 

[famicommander]

Nintendo raised their first year sales forecast for Switch 2 from 15m (matching the Switch 1) to 20m. Also by a wide margin the best launch for any Nintendo console ever in Europe (and the best launch for any console period in both Spain and France), where they have historically had much less traction than they've had in the Americas or Asia.

Mario Kart World reportedly has a 95% attach rate.

 

[Neo Alec]

Launch sales numbers have everything to do with how many units are available. The demand for more PS5's was there at launch, but the supply didn't meet it.

 

[fake]

lol Spain.

Mario Kart had a high attach rate because it’s the only game.

 

[Neo Alec]

lol, it's like bragging about the attach rate for Super Mario 64 if it had been packed in with half the N64's.

I imagine yields were lower manufacturing the 8-core Zen 2 PS5 CPU at launch, versus Nintendo's more modest ARM CPU. The CPU is usually the bottleneck for consoles, but it can also be ram and other parts. Switch 2 additionally has a screen, but it's just an LCD so the world's manufacturing capacity can probably handle it standing on its head.

 

[GohanX]

Launch sales numbers have everything to do with how many units are available. The demand for more PS5's was there at launch, but the supply didn't meet it.

It's amazing, the time Nintendo didn't play the artificial scarcity game it is their greatest success.

 

[Neo Alec]

It's amazing, the time Nintendo didn't play the artificial scarcity game it is their greatest success.

We'll see if that pans out long-term. Do you think the Switch 2 will pass the 100 million of the Wii? The 150 million of the Switch 1? There have been some vocal naysayers in the media and social media. They're strong out of the gate, but I kind of doubt they will get there with this one.

 

[GohanX]

Too early to tell, but I doubt it. There's pretty much zero buzz oustide of the Nintendo diehards. But it took the DS a couple years to get going too.

 

[famicommander]

We'll see if that pans out long-term. Do you think the Switch 2 will pass the 100 million of the Wii? The 150 million of the Switch 1? There have been some vocal naysayers in the media and social media. They're strong out of the gate, but I kind of doubt they will get there with this one.

Software moves hardware.

Look at these Switch 1 software sales:

List of best-selling Nintendo Switch video games - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Mario platformers, Mario Kart, Zelda, Smash Bros, Splatoon, Mario Party, Animal Crossing, Pokemon all put up batshit insane software numbers on Switch 1. There's no reason to think they're going to slow down.

Even formerly mid-tier Nintendo franchises like Kirby, Fire Emblem, Metroid, Pikmin, and Donkey Kong are doing 3-8 million per release. A god damn Luigi's Mansion game sold 14 million copies.

Switch 2 may not track down the Switch 1's final sales, but the Switch 1 is going to end up beating out the PS2 and DS for best selling console ever. 100 million would be a very low end estimate, though. They're going to announce a new Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, Mario platformer, and Zelda eventually. More Pokemans are always on the way.

 

[kernow]

Definitely want to play all of those ...

 

[famicommander]

Biggest Japanese launch weeks ever
1. Switch 2 - 947,931 (does not include sales from the My Nintendo store, which aren't tracked by Famitsu)

Biggest global launches ever
1. Switch 2 (3.5 million in 4 days)
2. Playstation 5 (3.4 million in 4 weeks)

 

[prof]

@CORY @Takumaji
Is there a way to block fami from posting statistics? You know, the same way joe was blocked from spamming "hbd" threads. Asking for a friend.

 

[StevenK]

@CORY @Takumaji
Is there a way to block fami from posting statistics? You know, the same way joe was blocked from spamming "hbd" threads. Asking for a friend.

It would only be 42.8% effective

 

[Taiso]

YOU KNOW THEY SAY ALL CONSOLES ARE CREATED EQUAL. BUT YOU LOOK AT THE SWITCH 2 AND YOU LOOK AT THE ATARI JAGUAR AND YOU CAN SEE THAT STATEMENT IS NOT TRUE! SEE NORMALLY IF YOU GO 1 ON 1 WITH ANOTHER CONSOLE YOU GOT A 50/50 CHANCE OF WINNING! BUT THE SWITCH 2 IS A MARKETING FREAK AND IT'S NOT NORMAL! SO YOU GOT A 25% AT BEST AT BEATING THE SWITCH 2! AND THEN YOU ADD THE ATARI JAGUAR TO THE MIX, THE CHANCES OF WINNING DRASTIC GO DOWN! SEE THE 3 WAY AT WALMART IT'S GOT A 33 1/3 CHANCE OF WINNING. BUT THE SWITCH 2, THE SWITCH 2 GOT A 66 2/3 CHANCE OF WINNING CAUSE THE ATARI JAGUAR KNOWS IT CAN'T BEAT NINTENDO AND IT'S NOT EVEN GONNA TRY! SO SONY YOU TAKE YOUR 33 1/3 CHANCE MINUS NINTENDO'S 25% CHANCE AND YOU GOT 8 1/3 CHANCE OF WINNING AT WALMART. BUT THEN YOU TAKE NINTENDO'S 75% CHANCE OF WINNING IF THEY WAS TO GO 1 ON 1 AND THEN ADD 66 2/3 %. NINTENDO'S GOT A 141 2/3 CHANCE OF WINNING AT WALMART! SEE SONY?THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE AND THEY SPELL DISASTER FOR YOU AT WALMART!

 

[Dr Shroom]

ALRIGHT, YOU WANTED STATS?! YOU WANTED NUMBERS?! WELL STRAP IN, 'CAUSE BIG POPPA PUMP’S GONNA TAKE YOU TO MATH CLASS—THE STEINER WAY!!

EVERYBODY'S FREAKIN’ OUT, “OH, THE SWITCH 2 SOLD 4.2 MILLION UNITS IN THE FIRST FIVE DAYS!!” — YEAH?! WELL GUESS WHAT?! THE PS5 SOLD 4.5 MILLION IN ITS FIRST WEEK BACK IN 2020—DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!! SO IF YOU THINK 4.2 IS IMPRESSIVE, THEN YOU’RE JUST BAD AT MATH, JACK!!

AND THEN YOU GOT THESE NINTENDO FANBOYS WAVIN’ THEIR ARMS, YELLIN’ “IT’S BREAKING RECORDS!!” WHAT RECORDS?! THE ONLY RECORD IT’S BREAKIN’ IS MOST FRAGILE JOY-CONS IN A TWELVE-HOUR SPAN!! YOU WANNA BREAK RECORDS?! THE DS SOLD 154 MILLION UNITS—WORLDWIDE!! THE SWITCH 2’S GONNA BE LUCKY TO SCRAPE PAST 80 MILLION BEFORE PEOPLE REALIZE IT’S JUST A SWITCH WITH A GYM MEMBERSHIP!!

AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON ATTACH RATE—YOU GOT 4.2 MILLION UNITS SOLD AND THE TOP SELLING GAME ONLY SOLD 1.8 MILLION?! THAT’S A 42.8% ATTACH RATE, BABY!! MEANING OVER HALF OF YOU BOUGHT THE CONSOLE AND DIDN’T EVEN BUY A GAME—WHAT IS THIS, A PAPERWEIGHT?! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH IT—BENCH IT?!

LOOK AT THE GPU—WHO CARES IF IT’S GOT DLSS 3.5?! SCOTT STEINER DON’T NEED AI UPSCALING—HE UPSCALES REALITY WITH HIS PRESENCE!! 12 TERAFLOPS?! THE SERIES X DOES THAT IN ITS SLEEP!! SWITCH 2'S PUSHIN’ 1.8 TERAFLOPS DOCKED?! THAT’S CUTE!! THAT’S A BABY FLOP!! THAT’S A “FLOP-ON-YOUR-FACE” LEVEL FLOP!!

AND WHILE YOU’RE AT IT—TAKE A LOOK AT THE BATTERY LIFE! 6.5 HOURS?! PLEASE!! I SPEND LONGER THAN THAT POSING IN THE MIRROR AFTER A WORKOUT!!

YOU CAN STACK YOUR SALES CHARTS, YOUR PERFORMANCE GRAPHS, AND YOUR INSTALL BASE PROJECTIONS ALL YOU WANT—BUT WHEN YOU STEP IN THE RING WITH THE NUMBERS MASTER, THE GENETIC FREAK, THE MAN WITH A 141 2/3% CHANCE OF MAKIN’ YOU LOOK STUPID—

—YOU REALIZE THE SWITCH 2 AIN’T DOMINATING… IT’S SURVIVING. AND IN STEINER MATH, SURVIVING AIN’T GOOD ENOUGH!!

 

[Taiso]

It's a Scott Steiner thread now.

 

[Taiso]

I'm just going to call Fami's statistical autism the 'Famisteiner' from now on.

 

[Gentlegamer]

 

[neo_mao]

Lot of Switch 2s on FB marketplace. Some as low as $530. After tax a Switch 2 would be like $480 at a store. Why go through the trouble of flipping for $50? smdh

 

[neo_mao]

That’s like 2 meals at Maccas

 

[Average Joe]

Lot of Switch 2s on FB marketplace. Some as low as $530. After tax a Switch 2 would be like $480 at a store. Why go through the trouble of flipping for $50? smdh

Gotta flip something if all the Pokemon cards were bought out by scumbag scalpers.

 

[Neo Alec]

Looks like systems are going for about $600-700 on ebay right now. Too bad these folks didn't just roll into Target or Walmart on launch day morning.

 

[Lagduf]

Looks like systems are going for about $600-700 on ebay right now. Too bad these folks didn't just roll into Target or Walmart on launch day morning.

Are they actually selling at that price?

 

[basic]

Biggest Japanese launch weeks ever
1. Switch 2 - 947,931 (does not include sales from the My Nintendo store, which aren't tracked by Famitsu)

Biggest global launches ever
1. Switch 2 (3.5 million in 4 days)
2. Playstation 5 (3.4 million in 4 weeks)

wake me up when switch 2 and ps5 get closer to matching tiger handheld numbers.