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Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period

The same is true of PlayStation and Xbox too (and has been for a decade or more). At least in US, don’t know about Europe. This is not to defend Nintendo, just saying that if that was the issue, it would effect all the consoles, and would have been effecting them for last many years. Average people don’t even know about these, and many probably don’t even care.

There might be more to this, but with the current economy, and consoles getting more expensive instead of cheaper as time goes on could be some of the reasons, IMO. And there weren’t much holiday sales this year.

First year sales are also generally limited by supply, not demand, so it will be interesting to see how Switch 2 does in its second and third years, specially if we do get next PS and Xbox next year.

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mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Didnt playstation do amazingly well?

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- jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It was the best selling console in the US this holiday season, but not sure how it’s sales compared to previous years. It also was on a big discount which definitely helped.
  
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  - samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    A “big discount” which placed it around the price it launched at.
    
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- slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Not sure, I got the impression that all consoles sold worse than usual, but I didn’t actually dig deep into it.
  
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  - timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    techradar.com/…/despite-early-supply-issues-more-…
    
    Behind the ps4 in outright numbers given the same period of sales time.
    
    Surprised they’ve done that well though. It’s good but the ps4 still holds its own IMO.
    
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
General availability seems to imply that supply was not a constraint by the time we got to the holiday shopping season.

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- slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh yeah, that last lines were about Switch 2 doing record sales in first year, not about the holidays sales, should have made it clear.
  
  I agree with all your points about holiday sales, but I am not sure if it means that it’s momentum has slowed down or it just went down because of other expenses and stuff people wanted to buy over this period. Will be interesting if the sales go back up or if they keep going down.
  
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