That was the narrative I saw floating around for a while – sales flatlining, stocks dropping 30%, stuff like that. I believed it, but looking at the recent earnings report, Nintendo's data doesn't seem to indicate any underperformance of any kind. Their initial projection of 15 million units has well been cleared, and their new 19 million unit projection by the end of the fiscal year seems pretty conservative given the 17.5 they're at now and the 3 (or 4 including ACNHNS2E) Switch 2 games set to release in the window between the report cutoff and the end of the fiscal year. I also read through this IGN article https://www.ign.com/articles/did-the-nintendo-switch-2-really-have-a-bad-holiday-we-asked-analysts which seems pretty adamant that it wasn't a bad holiday.
I'll be honest, I did (and still do) want it to be a bad holiday for them. I want them to be motivated to try, I want the prices they're setting to be decisively rejected by their audience. But I'm not going to pretend if it's not true. Increasingly it seems like they're actually doing fine and people are making the narrative up. Really unsure though, would love to hear what others think. (Hopefully others who have read the earnings report.)
by HuckleberryWrong5276
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SNES came out in 1991 and was $199. In today’s dollars that’s $475. Games sold between $50-70 which would be minimum of around $115 dollars today. To me that’s an incredible commitment to maintain the price level, why wish ill on them for that?
Yes.
If investors are pissed and your company stock dwindles, then yes, as a business, that’s the definition of a bad holiday.
My Switch 2 was collecting dust until Fire Emblem Path of Radiance came to NSO. Played it for a few weeks, loved every minute of it, and now my Switch 2 is back to being “somewhere around here.”
No Mario. No Zelda. No (good) Pokemon. No word about Smash Bros, no release date for Fire Emblem…
It’s been 9 years since Odyssey.
What the fuck are we doing here, Nintendo?
The stocks dropping is more of a margin squeeze issue due to memory prices.
It sounds a bit like you already know the answer
If you’re clinging onto hope that the 2025 holidays were actually terrible for Nintendo and they are scrambling to revisit their practices and strategies to turn things around, I have bad news for you
the console hasn’t been out for a year yet and it’s completely outsold the wii u and is on it’s way to outselling the gamecube as well. and despite what grifters online wanna paint the narrative, the company did well this past holiday season. especially for not having a huge title to attract more customers. so nah i think they did fine honestly. even if i personally wish they did release new software.
also what prices to be rejected by their audience? PS and xbox have had 70$ games for 5 years now, and the only 80$ games are either MK world or a few switch 1 titles with their new DLC bundled in. sure i’m not a fan of 70$ either, but it’s been the status quo for years now and it was bound to hit nintendo at some point. so by this mindset should PS and xbox fans reject new releases? it’s silly to me.
Not specifically Nintendo – the games industry had a bad holiday. Year-over-year sales were down across the board.
I think Nintendo and the switch being as popular as it is that it just will have a large audience on the internet rooting for its downfall or just speaking negatively. Like it is the internet after all, and things like Reddit and YouTube thrive on inciting anger.
Now Nintendo fans and gamers in general have plenty of reason to not like some of the choices they have made but does their opinion mean it’s true? Like take Mario kart world for example. Endless rants on how it’s not good enough online but it’s a game that will sell tens of millions of copies and will have tens or hundreds of hours of play time on many people’s switch 2s.
In my opinion based on being both a Nintendo fan keeping up with most of their reports and interviews think that they kinda have their shit together despite what the internet audience says. I know not everything is hitting right with every demographic but overall I see a plan that is being executed quite well. It seems like they are considering the future wisely and making moves that best position them to continue the success of the switch 1 and I would expect a positive next couple of years.
Did Nintendo had a bad holiday or the internet likes to push speculation as facts for doomposting Switch 2?
Maybe stop believing on people who use speculation for engagement.
Fastest selling console of all time without a new Mario, Zelda, Smash, Animal Crossing and Splatoon but sure, the console is flopping.