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Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month (m.gsmarena.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Unsurprisingly. I remember some friends swearing that it would be DOA because of console/games prices and whatever.

I was like, if gamers were careful with their money, we wouldn’t have had horse armor nonsense for the past 20 years, lol.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I think those doomsayers will be partially vindicated in the coming months. You can go to Best Buy's website and order a Switch 2 with no waiting line, no delay. The supply is outpacing demand. Because I think a huge part of the 6 million sold was pent up demand for a new console and the inevitable cumulative brand effect and population increase leading to a larger early-adopter pool.

    Unless Nintendo somehow had the ability to increase supply in a way unheard of for launch consoles in the past, I think that they met that early demand, and now it's going to slow down abruptly. Now they have to convince regular people in a bad economy to spend way more than normal for a Nintendo console, with no Mario or Zelda killer app.

    Eventually it'll be a great selling machine, but these early numbers are misleading.

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