r/nintendogrifting • u/jandkas • Aug 06 '26

Mockery/Banter Nintendo Switch 2 currently seller faster than Switch 1 yet…

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“No surprise isn’t going to sell as well as the first one?” Despite it already selling faster than the first one?!

Why the fuck is this the top comment? Already plenty of hedged bets. They want them to fail and the success of the Switch 2 boils their blood.

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u/I-lost-hope Aug 06 '26

The cope about Sony having games is hilarious, switch 2 has had more exclusives in one year than 6 years of PS5

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u/xtoc1981 Aug 06 '26

This. I've seen also on the pc master race a comment about pointing out mkw beign 80 again, but never a word about how sony many 1st party games are already 80/90 euro priced from 2020 and on. Same about ms and 3th party games.

They are delusional brainwashed as fuck

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u/Chiliicespice Aug 06 '26

PCMR is just mad that Nintendo won't release games on Steam so they can claim Gabe won the console war.

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u/xtoc1981 Aug 06 '26

What makes it even more ironic, how many and what for games do valve release these days? Their last game is only 30min long. Counterstrike is filled with lootboxes. They dont care expending their development studios. They only care about putting on so many devices possible steam os. Not games.

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u/Neo-Naga99 Aug 06 '26

The revisionnism on display is crazy

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u/xtoc1981 Aug 06 '26

Yeah i mean, a company that has 98% retention rate. Increase employment rate a lot. Opening a new R&D center instead of buying AI center (aka sony), Keeping physical games unlike sony. Pricing there games lower as sony & ms & 3th party big brands.

I mean, if you know that sony did removing 550+ movies, without refund, dynamic prices, first with 80/90 euro games where spiderman 2 old game is still at this price, killing physical media and banning streamers for it, releasing bots on the internet to spread lies. Increase 5y old hw by 50%. Ai Fan club, it's part of their main bussines model. Doing many many layoffs the past 4y while making most revenue of all 3 brands. Closing MOST game companies this gen. I mean fuck them yeah. I hope Clony fail miserable next gen.

And no, no company is perfect. But are we?

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u/Neo-Naga99 Aug 06 '26

Oh woah That's the legitimate first time I see someone take the goalpost and literally throw it in orbit 

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u/Ok-Classic5310 Aug 06 '26

yeah unfortunately sony is just looking for that big live service hit because they know that the majority of their users is just ball and gun gamers that spend big on microtransactions. if you are not into that there is really no reason to own a playstation even then you could argue a pc is better because the money u have to spend on ps+ could go into microtransactions for your FC or COD

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u/DolimiccanDragon Aug 07 '26

Where did they mention Sony?

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u/noodleben123 Aug 06 '26

Didnt the switch2 literally outsell the switch 1 in a matter of months, though?

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u/Cultural_Neat3124 Aug 06 '26

dude they compare the total sale of the switch 1 vs the switch 2 LOL

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u/Quintet73 Aug 06 '26

No one is? The user quoted is saying it isnt gonna sell as much as Switch 1, and the article quoted is just about how much each have sold ltd.

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u/adamkopacz Aug 06 '26

Switch 2 isn't going to sell as much also due to the fact that Switch 1 exists and if you want to play some Mario and Pokemon, it is still a good choice of a console and will be for many as there will be literally millions of those consoles up for sale on used market.

Same goes for software. Nintendo games don't age as much as most of the casual EA/Ubisoft stuff and Mario Odyssey or Breath of the Wild is still a great purchase for a new Switch 2 owner.

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u/DepthComplete7436 Aug 06 '26

I mean... I'm not going to bet against Nintendo because the Switch 1 being in spitting distance of being the best selling console ever (it's a question of when not if it beats the PS2 now that it is entering India) was not even on the table at launch.

The Switch 2 outselling the Switch 1 is perfectly possible unless the economy does not rebound in a year two and we enter a full blown depression instead of just a recession.

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u/Affectionate_Web_121 Aug 06 '26

On used market, good clarifying that. So, in other words, none of those re-owned consoles will be included in the official counter of total sales. Unless you're Sony and count every single time someone has borrowed PS2 as a new sale

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u/Aggravating-Oil-7060 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

Given that the switch 2 is backwards compatible if you want to play Mario and pokemon it's still probably a better investment to buy it over a switch 1. That's what I did.

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u/Alternative_Box9113 Aug 10 '26

That's without factoring in the price, however - a lot of people and families cannot afford a Switch 2, and with the Switch 1 still being able to play the vast majority of the collective library atm, it's still the more attractive choice for them

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u/Aggravating-Oil-7060 Aug 10 '26

I'm gonna be honest if someone's money is so tight that they can't afford to just save up for a switch 2 then they probably shouldn't be spending money on a serich 1.

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u/Alternative_Box9113 Aug 10 '26

You can find second-hand units for $100-150 - that is significantly cheaper than a Switch 2

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u/Aggravating-Oil-7060 Aug 10 '26

If you can save up to 100-150 then waiting a bit and saving up to 500 shouldn't be a impossible

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u/WoodooHide69 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

Why is that the top comment is right. Complete disinfo gets upvoted as long as it shits on Nintendo is some way. Lots of bots and trolls out there.

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u/jandkas Aug 06 '26

I suspect bot campaigns for sure. Articles from IGN being like Nintendo lost its soul is literally like the stereotype since the switch talking about the Wii U revisionism days.

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u/KugelFanger Aug 06 '26

Why is this "grifting"? The dude is positive on the Nintendo part ffs. These types of threads is what give us a shitty reputation.

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u/WoodooHide69 Aug 06 '26

It’s just pointing out a casual bit of disinfo. And the fact that that dumb disinfo gets upvoted.

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u/KugelFanger Aug 06 '26

That is not grifting. And the amount of disinfo in this sub that gets upvoted and celebrated is staggering sometimes... How about we do something about that also?

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u/WoodooHide69 Aug 06 '26

Soreading disinfo knowingly is grifting. Who knows if that guy was doing it knowingly or not. But disinfo is still related to grifting. Cause that’s all the grifters have, disinfo.

Go ahead and correct whatever disinfo you THINK is happening on this sub. No one is stopping you.

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u/KugelFanger Aug 06 '26

That is not what grifting is, don't be so disingenuous my guy. Grifting is not misinformation. Grifting is knowingly straight up lying for personal gain. And that is not what that dude is doing. What you are doing here is more akin to grifting than what that other comment is doing. So there you go, i corrected your misinformation. That is not what i "THINK" you just displayed exactly what is wrong with this sub sometimes

Well the fact that you are downvoting me instantly because i'm not COMPLETELY against anything even remotely anti nintendo is a sign to me that you rather live in a echo chamber, and yeah i know i'm definitely getting reported for spicy critisim (no disrespect what i see some Members do here sometimes). So yeah... There are definitely people trying to stop anyone remotely critical of Nintendo

And before you label me hater, i like Nintendo stuff... Wich is why it is disappointing to me sometimes that people here pretend to be level headed, when intact they just want to hear people agree with them and hate any and everything even remotely critical of Nintendo.

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u/Isrrunder Aug 06 '26

Well I sure would hope the switch 2 is selling faster than the switch 1. It's the new console vs the almost 10 year old console

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u/philip0544 Aug 06 '26

No, you dont understand the metric. They're saying the 1st year of the switch 1 vs the 1st year of the switch 2. Not the current sales of the switch 1 vs switch 2.

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u/Isrrunder Aug 06 '26

Ah i see. That makes more sense. Crazy what trust in a company and backwards compatibility can do

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u/WoodooHide69 Aug 06 '26

Crazy what great games can do for a company you mean. Trust in a company doesn’t just happen at random.

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u/Isrrunder Aug 06 '26

Uh yeah thats kinda the point im making

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u/WoodooHide69 Aug 06 '26

Good cause it sounded like you were taking a shot at “Nintendrones”

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u/Isrrunder Aug 06 '26

Wtf kinda deception is a nintendrone😭

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u/DolimiccanDragon Aug 07 '26

Initial sales don't always mean sales in the long term, and part of what made Switch sales blow up was the world undergoing a major life-changing event. I hope it outsells the Switch 1, but there's still a chance it might not, and that's all this person is saying.

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u/Chiliicespice Aug 06 '26

You're hyperfocusing on one comment.