Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[The Hardest R]

If the plan was always for him to leave, then why would he not stay through to next summer. That would be a year on the market and Summer is already a slow time. January and February are still busy and people will still spend in those months and games that miss the holidays get released then (and some companies like Capcom love that timeframe). You'll also have a Direct and likely hands on events. You can't even really evaluate how the holidays went either as the guy is already out the door. If it was amicable, then the timing makes no sense.

Sure, he is older but the timing and the fact that Nintendo is bringing in one of their own to oversee stuff is a sign that something went wrong.
>But muh stock
The stock has been down since the last month after having peaked in August. Analyst are also starting to downgrade it from a buy to neutral.
>

https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/09/17/why-nintendo-stock-got-rocked-today/

Did you read the article you linked?

The product has been a hot seller, so much so that Nintendo had difficulties keeping up with demand in the early stages of the rollout (it was released to the market in early June). However, Reese pointed out that many estimates for unit sales look quite high; after all, they are well above actual sales for both the original Switch and an older product, the Wii.

The issue is that Switch 2 is a “hot seller” but expectations is that it would “well” outperform the Switch and the Wii at the same time is unrealistic.

Sorry but per the article you linked yourself, Nintendo isn’t doomed, the Switch 2 is selling very well, and Doug Bowser or any executive retiring at the end of the year around the age of 65 is not a surprise at all. Most executives would kill to end their career on as high a note as Bowser.

 

[IrishGuy088]

Sorry but per the article you linked yourself, Nintendo isn’t doomed, the Switch 2 is selling very well, and Doug Bowser or any executive retiring at the end of the year around the age of 65 is not a surprise at all. Most executives would kill to end their career on as high a note as Bowser.

Pretty much.

People love to doom and gloom about Nintendo but this isn't the year. People want their Switch 2 and they will for quite a while.

Maybe next cycle? Probably not.

What transitionary period? He's been there for 6 years and he's leaving before the new console is even a year old.

The period between focusing on games and moving to a hybrid business model of video games and movies. It was an important period of time during which they needed people to focus and keep their eye on the prize. If these fuckers realize they have A Fox in Space just sitting there for the taking, they're going to make a mint.

This shit is actually pretty good.

 

[Never Scored]

Because you use it as a cop out, especially in regards to Switch 2, which has no emulation yet.

Bro, there's nothing to emulate.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

In other news, Nintendo Shadow dropped a new Fire Emblem slop on phones that has a tranny main character and Furry fetish.

Literally a tranny?

Bro, there's nothing to emulate.

2 whole games lol

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Literally a tranny?

The main character looks like this:



His Shadow form looks like this:

Is engaged to this woman:

It can be that he is a woman that dresses like a man, but that raises the question of why are they engaged.

 

[Jarch6]

The issue is that Switch 2 is a “hot seller” but expectations is that it would “well” outperform the Switch and the Wii at the same time is unrealistic.

Yeah, at worst you can say the S2 isn't selling as ridiculously well as they hoped it would, but it's far from a WiiU-esque failure. It's quite clear Nintendo's sickening greed will go unpunished (like the rest of the gaming industry) because, as stated many times before, the masses are cattle.

Bro, there's nothing to emulate.

You're not champing at the bit to play straight line simulator or Ape-based toddler game?

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

The main character looks like this:

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His Shadow form looks like this:
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Is engaged to this woman:
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It can be that he is a woman that dresses like a man, but that raises the question of why are they engaged.

Could be a woman pretending to be a man for whatever story reason, hopefully. Like it's a political marriage. But knowing modern gaming, it's probably some flavor of degeneracy. Plus the tranny color scheme on that blue haired girl is concerning.

Yeah, at worst you can say the S2 isn't selling as ridiculously well as they hoped it would, but it's far from a WiiU-esque failure. It's quite clear Nintendo's sickening greed will go unpunished (like the rest of the gaming industry) because, as stated many times before, the masses are cattle.

It'll lose steam if they don't actually get exclusives because there's not a lot of incentive to pick one up. We'll be lucky to get one more big game within its first year at this rate, the last Direct was surprisingly awful. It was basically just Fire Emblem.

 

[ManInTheBlarms]

lmao what's the trans accusation here, just looks like every random anime softboi protag from every fire emblem game

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

Because you use it as a cop out, especially in regards to Switch 2, which has no emulation yet.

It also doesn't have any games worth emulating either.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

See ya’ll boys in a couple of months when Nintendo mops up the holiday sales

 

[Never Scored]

See ya’ll boys in a couple of months when Nintendo mops up the holiday sales

I think to be fair to Nintendo, they're doing the same thing every game company does now. Half the library on modern consoles is remasters of popular games from last generation with updated graphics, framerates, etc. Games like GTA V and Skyrim are good examples on other consoles.

Just like there's a sizable audience willing to shell out for a console whose library is padded out with games like a remastered port of GTA V in 4k with a better framerate and graphics, I guess there is a sizable audience willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a system padded out with games like BOTW at 60 fps in 4K.

Not me, though.

 

[ChristianKiwi]

lmao what's the trans accusation here, just looks like every random anime softboi protag from every fire emblem game

Kurt is fine. It's the Shadowbeast form that's throwing people off. It is feminine with an hourglass figure and has what appears to be the implication of breasts.
Kurt's line in Shadows claiming to be a prince sounds a little awkward too as there's a slight pause before he says "prince". That's just my opinion though.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Replacing the American branch CEOs few months post launch of a new product really looks bad.

In general Nintendo is acting really fucking weird in the last year. Yeah they were always greedy, but now it comes as trying to torpedo their own brand.

The most mundane explanation is them owing a fuck ton of money to the Yakuza, or having some insane internal spending that they keep under wrap.

The historic trends of Nintendo consoles (note to retards ITT: there are exceptions but the GENERAL TREND) are the following:
1. Nintendo sells less consoles with every generation.
2. If the previous console was a big success, the successor is a huge failure.

The Wii did change the paradigm a little, before; every console sold worse, but then the Wii U showed what the numbers would look like if they continued on that trend anyway. I've taken this chart from Reddit and re-organized it by release, not by total sales.

The Switch 2 sales are probably going to dry up fast if they don't come out with winning titles soon, and I just don't think there's much in the pipeline (Metroid Prime 4 likely won't be a huge hit, none of the Metroid games have done well in Japan).

Internal issues are always fun to speculate on though...I wonder if there's some sort of boardroom battle with a shareholder trying to make a hostile takeover. (I mean, it probably won't go anywhere, but for a brief time there was the question of Seven & i Holdings being taken over by Alimentation Couche-Tard of Canada...and the question of Japan's 7-Eleven stores would even remain 7-Eleven, or turn into Circle K stores.)

 

[whatever I feel like]

The Switch 2 sales are probably going to dry up fast if they don't come out with winning titles soon, and I just don't think there's much in the pipeline (Metroid Prime 4 likely won't be a huge hit, none of the Metroid games have done well in Japan).

There's clearly a lot in the pipeline. There's the Splatoon spinoff game that was announced, the new Fire Emblem game, the leaked Xenoblade 2 remaster (not major but whatever,) Smash, an Animal Crossing title probably coming in one to two years, whatever Namco is working on*, likely a main-line Pokemon game for next fall (possibly an S1 dual release), whatever NLG is working on, another 2D Mario game (likely 2027?) and a bunch of lesser stuff that I can't be bothered to list or remember, including titles that have been officially announced. Most of those are probably going to come out in the next two and a half years, and of them only Pokemon seems likely to be cross-gen.

*Might have been cancelled.

 

[Never Scored]

Came across this on the Youtube feed. I think the fact that the majority of what he talks about is out for Switch 1 or is also on Steam and other consoles speaks volumes about the state of the Switch 2 library, honestly:

The historic trends of Nintendo consoles (note to retards ITT: there are exceptions but the GENERAL TREND) are the following:
1. Nintendo sells less consoles with every generation.
2. If the previous console was a big success, the successor is a huge failure.

The Wii did change the paradigm a little, before; every console sold worse, but then the Wii U showed what the numbers would look like if they continued on that trend anyway. I've taken this chart from Reddit and re-organized it by release, not by total sales.

The Switch 2 sales are probably going to dry up fast if they don't come out with winning titles soon, and I just don't think there's much in the pipeline (Metroid Prime 4 likely won't be a huge hit, none of the Metroid games have done well in Japan).

Internal issues are always fun to speculate on though...I wonder if there's some sort of boardroom battle with a shareholder trying to make a hostile takeover. (I mean, it probably won't go anywhere, but for a brief time there was the question of Seven & i Holdings being taken over by Alimentation Couche-Tard of Canada...and the question of Japan's 7-Eleven stores would even remain 7-Eleven, or turn into Circle K stores.)

Switch and Switch 2 are handhelds, not home consoles. They abandoned the home console market for this very reason, made a handheld that hooks up the the TV and called it a "hybird". Nintendo's handhelds have not been following the same general downward trend.

There's clearly a lot in the pipeline. There's the Splatoon spinoff game that was announced, the new Fire Emblem game, the leaked Xenoblade 2 remaster (not major but whatever,) Smash, an Animal Crossing title probably coming in one to two years, whatever Namco is working on*, likely a main-line Pokemon game for next fall (possibly an S1 dual release), whatever NLG is working on, another 2D Mario game (likely 2027?) and a bunch of lesser stuff that I can't be bothered to list or remember, including titles that have been officially announced. Most of those are probably going to come out in the next two and a half years, and of them only Pokemon seems likely to be cross-gen.

*Might have been cancelled.

Most of this is wild speculation. I can't see a new Smash Bros anytime soon with Sakurai proccupied with Air Riders and Ultimate running on Switch 2 anyway.

I doubt we get a new 2D Mario that soon as well, considering Wonder came out in 2023 and the length of time between entries of Nintendo series has generally been increasing.

If you follow the pattern from Switch, they released Deluxe versions of Wii U games as a stop gap while they worked on new shit. Given that, I think it's going to be a while before there is a new 3D Zelda, 2D Mario, Mario Party or mainline Kirby as they rereleased all those games with some new content for Switch 2. I could be wrong, though.

If you're buying a $500 console based on what may be announced in the future, you are totally fucking retarded. I am sorry.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I doubt we get a new 2D Mario that soon as well, considering Wonder came out in 2023 and the length of time between entries of Nintendo series has generally been increasing.

It took slightly more than 4 years between Maker 2 and Wonder, that puts it around 2027 if they rush to make a release date. I haven't brought a Switch 2 because it doesn't have enough that I want at the price that its at but we also do know the makeup of Nintendo's internal teams and most of them only work as the primary dev on one or two series, its not that hard to fill in the timeline with titles, especially since Nintendo doesn't like announcing stuff early these days.

 

[umseriously]

See ya’ll boys in a couple of months when Nintendo mops up the holiday sales

Wtf I thought the switch 2 was failing? Any of the PC bros in this thread want to comment on this? Shouldn't Mario be on steam by this point?

 

[Fox Girl Enjoyer]

Did you read the article you linked?

The issue is that Switch 2 is a “hot seller” but expectations is that it would “well” outperform the Switch and the Wii at the same time is unrealistic.

Sorry but per the article you linked yourself, Nintendo isn’t doomed, the Switch 2 is selling very well, and Doug Bowser or any executive retiring at the end of the year around the age of 65 is not a surprise at all. Most executives would kill to end their career on as high a note as Bowser.

Funny you claim I didn't read the article when you take a line from the beginning that somehow means things are AOK (missed the nice big "However" in what you quoted). If you read further, you'd see she changed her stance from buy to neutral because she doesn't expect it to sell as well as the Switch or the Wii.

Mind you, analyst were saying this thing was going to be sold out for months and it hasn't been. Point is, you can look at the stock and see its coming down off its highs and you have analyst going from overly bullish to neutral on it within only a few months.

See ya’ll boys in a couple of months when Nintendo mops up the holiday sales

Account called "Nintendo Prime" thinks the Nintendo console is going to sell well. I must say, I'm surprised.

 

[Never Scored]

It took slightly more than 4 years between Maker 2 and Wonder, that puts it around 2027 if they rush to make a release date. I haven't brought a Switch 2 because it doesn't have enough that I want at the price that its at but we also do know the makeup of Nintendo's internal teams and most of them only work as the primary dev on one or two series, its not that hard to fill in the timeline with titles, especially since Nintendo doesn't like announcing stuff early these days.

Mario Maker 2 was built using pre existing assets like the New Super Mario games. I could see Mario Maker 3 coming out in 2027 that introduces elements from Mario Wonder. I think a whole new 2D Mario is very wishful thinking, and I think Nintendo themselves are signaling this by releasing a Switch 2 edition of Wonder.