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

Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “It’s just horse armor, bro, what’s the worse than could happen?”

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