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Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month

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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artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
One of my friends told me they bought a skin in COD and I immediately thought less of them as a person. Like, at least have some shame 🤣

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- umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  my friend buys fortnite skins sometimes 🥶
  
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ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There is definitely a lot of truth in this.

If gamers were more critical about with their purchases, we would have a very different gaming industry.

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- SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  “It’s just horse armor, bro, what’s the worse than could happen?”
  
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