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NEWS: Nintendo Switch 2 Sells Over 3.5 Million Units Worldwide in 1st 4 Days

Gamers got real mad at a price and buckled and bought something anyway? I'm shocked, shocked, I say!

Personally I'm waiting until more games come out for it before I get one.

Yup, don't believe everything you read on the internet, especially when people are saying it very insistently at every opportunity. There are some people who think they have some moral duty to complain to Nintendo because it will lower the price the same, these people are very loud but often not representative of gamers on the whole.

Rather than moral duty to defend the rights of consumers of Nintendo's predatory practices, most of the drama videos and negative posts on social media seem to be done intentionally in order to garner rage clicks and to give a false impression that Nintendo itself is in trouble and that Switch 2 will be the WiiU 2. I mean, anyone is free to criticize Nintendo, but most of the videos on YouTube have some of the most dramatic clickbaity titles possible, it's pretty obvious that the majority of content creators don't particularly care if the Switch 2 is a success or a failure, though the latter would be better for making more videos.

In regards to gamers on forums complaining about the Switch 2, that's something that I don't particularly get, I think most seem to believe that Nintendo has brainwashed an entire generation to but inferior hardware to play outdated games at full price and to that I can only say, "Why do you care?", I mean, people are free to make their own choices, all of this feels more like console warring, like they're mad at people choosing Nintendo istead of a PS/Xbox/PC, but I'm always told that Nintendo operates separately from the "true" consoles, it's not like third-party developers are going to focus on the Switch 2, there's not that many third-party games on the Switch 2, yet. Don't know if there's also an element of resentment, like people always want Nintendo to go third-party ever since the end of the GameCube era or that at least they port some of their games to other consoles and PC, I think people want Nintendo to fail so they can exit the hardware business and become a developer, just like SEGA

I am not surprised at all with this because it's been hyped for months even before its official reveal. Plus it seems Nintendo is keeping up with demand so they won't have the problems that the PS5 and XBox Series did

[Don't know if there's also an element of resentment, like people always want Nintendo to go third-party ever since the end of the GameCube era or that at least they port some of their games to other consoles and PC, I think people want Nintendo to fail so they can exit the hardware business and become a developer, just like SEGA

I am so tired of hearing about specs honestly

For the longest time every conversation about games on the Switch revolved around specs and comparisons and how dumb it was they would even port that game with those horrible downgrades. No shade to the people that just want a smooth performing HD game, but so many people took it personally and they seem to come out in droves any time a Switch game didn't run like it was on a PS5 (never, because obviously).

Then, when the SW2 was announced there were oodles of people complaining about the price saying stuff like "So now graphics matter? The entire SW1 life cycle we were told Nintendo didn't need high power graphics to make good games but now we need them enough to pay that much?" Like obviously a new system is going to be stronger than the previous one before it becomes more outdated and can't run modern games at all, that's the entire point of a new system??? The complaints I heard nonstop since the SW1 was released just morphed into now people are mad they have to pay for the specs that people have been asking for!

It's always nice to know a system can hit some performance benchmark like 4k60fps or 1080p120fps just to understand what it can do, but when they announce the next console I am just going to plug my ears when people bring up the exact RAM and how much is being used for system functions and how this many flops are necessary for smooth performance.

Maybe I’m misremembering but did the orignal Switch not also have supply shortages?

I guess everything that went down with the pandemic and the PS5 may have permanently skewed my expectations, because for the life of me I just cannot imagine being able pick up a Switch 2 easily for at least another year, yet when the Switch came out, I was able to get one less than a year after launch, when Mario Odyssey came out.