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In a thread posted to 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, a Switch 2 user listed the games they’re planning to play — Fire Emblem, Monster Hunter Wilds, Stellar Blade, Metaphor, Metroid, and more — and the sheer number of titles drew replies calling the lineup “almost too packed.” Some pushed back, though, arguing that third-party sales have actually been weak and the console “isn’t really selling as well as it looks.” From there the conversation spiraled into an argument over domestic and overseas sales figures for Metroid Dread and Metroid Prime 4.
What people said
Ocarina of Time
Monster Hunter
Metaphor
Ocarina (of Time)
Wilds
Layton
Metroid
yeah that's a lot
Re: #2
I bet more than half of those won't sell
Third-party stuff has genuinely been struggling on Switch lately
Persona 6 will probably end up the same way
I mean even Persona 4's exclusivity window shrank to just 3 months
Timed exclusives have gotten so weak that's about all they can manage now
Oh right, Monsters 4 too
Stellar Blade
Ocarina (of Time)
Metaphor
Monsters 4
Wilds
Layton
Metroid
Romancing SaGa 3
Revelation
Persona 4
can I actually get through all this?
this stuff costs money and eats up time, I'm swamped
Yet you've got time to post here?
Talk about the "Trash Station" (mocking nickname for PlayStation) is off-topic here
A year from now we'll have Kingdom Hearts 4, Pokémon, and Xenoblade Genesis too
If anything, next year's when things really kick off
it's so much fun I'm not complaining though
It's like 5 times bigger than what I imagined before launch lol
especially third-party titles
it's genuinely insane
though Nintendo's own titles were strong from launch
Yeah, Switch 1's second year really did feel short on games. Looking back at my purchase history, I barely bought anything. Fortnite saved me back then
what's with this "it never sells" narrative
And that counts as selling well?
This is the game industry board — "I just want to enjoy my games" attitude belongs elsewhere, get out
It does sell well
sorry to ruin your attempt to nitpick
but including overseas sales it's 3 million
So that's Persona 3 Reload-level numbers then
What about the one that came out earlier this year?
No Metroid game released this year lol
look stuff up before you post
Metroid Prime 4 be like, "Uh, excuse me?"
Oh really, my bad
but did that one sell well domestically?
Yeah, true
Metroid's always been like a fifth-string title for Nintendo anyway, so that's plenty
Running away from the "it sells well" argument, huh
Tried to troll and got mad when told Metroid actually sells?
sorry about that
Is 3 million really "selling well" though
Persona 3 Reload has way more players once you count Game Pass — and 3 million is just the people who actually paid for it
You only ever said "Metroid," nothing more specific
if you wanted to talk about Prime 4 specifically, you should've said so from the start
you lose
it hasn't even released yet, so we can't know
The one just announced hasn't released yet, so it's not the "latest title"
the latest title is Metroid Prime 4
That's still more than every game Sony's put out this year combined
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The thread originally set out to discuss how many games users had lined up to play, but partway through it veered into a dispute over each title’s actual sales figures, turning into a back-and-forth where posters talked past each other. The sticking point was how well the mentioned titles are really selling — the specific numbers floated (300,000 domestic, 3 million including overseas, etc.) were figures individual posters threw out themselves, not official tallies. The thread also touched on the Persona series’ “timed exclusivity” arrangements on other platforms, and some compared the current lineup to the software drought in Switch 1’s first one to two years — with posters using different yardsticks for how “packed” the Switch 2 lineup really is, which is part of why the discussion talked past itself. Opinions were similarly split on Metroid: whether to judge it by the franchise’s past track record or by the latest individual title’s numbers.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry – Geha) thread “I’m a Switch 2 user and I’ve got way too many games lined up to play.”
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