Nintendo's FY2026

[Yrassinad]

It is, no matter how angry and upset it makes you feel. Just get over it.

It doesn't make me angry at all, I couldn't give a shit about how the PS6 performs since I have no intention of getting one. If it flops and it makes Sony do better, all the better for me and everyone else.

But it's utterly stupid to think that a handheld that's somewhere in between gen 8 and gen 9 performance wise, with a feature set that is characteristic of a gen 9 console (faster loading times, AI resolution upscaling etc) somehow is a gen 10 console. One that's going to be a direct competitor to an actual gen 10 console that's probably going to be filled to the brim with features that are going to be characteristic to actual gen 10 consoles like frame generation, raytracing/pathtracing and other AI shit. One that is also going to be in a completely different price class due to component prices.

The world just doesn't work like that. Again, in reality Nintendo had to hit the reset button on their gen 8 console, fell 5 years behind the rest of the industry as a result and is therefore now coming 5 years late to every new generation. People will naturally compare Sony/MS's gen 10 consoles to Switch 2 because it'll be the most recent Nintendo offering out there, but that doesn't make it a gen 10 console itself. These comparisons are stupid anyway. The last time comparing Nintendo hardware directly to Sony's made any sense was during the PS2 vs GameCube era. Or maybe the Vita vs 3DS era at best.

 

[heroeskillrats]

One that is also going to be in a completely different price class due to component prices.

Just like Wii and PS3. Nintendo won then, then generation 9 and now gen 10, bitch.

 

[Danja]

Just like Wii and PS3. Nintendo won then, then generation 9 and now gen 10, bitch.

Nintendo won by the smallest margin in 15 years and lost the software sales crown to PS3 lol.

 

[voke]

Just like Wii and PS3. Nintendo won then, then generation 9 and now gen 10, bitch.

Sure, but Playstation and their other competition will never go away so you'll be stuck worrying and keeping up with platform wars on loop for the rest of your life.

 

[heroeskillrats]

Sure, but Playstation and their other competition will never go away so you'll be stuck worrying and keeping up with platform wars on loop for the rest of your life.

Plenty of consoles have come and gone and I just track console sales for fun.

 

[Ilovekaz]

Well, Nintendo's not doing it because of Xbox. They're doing it because of Sony.

Nintendo hasn't been competing with the industry's leader ever since 2003 or whenever they started handing out gamecubes for 99 dollars + mcdonalds coupon bundles

 

[heroeskillrats]

Nintendo hasn't been competing with the industry's leader

You always compete with yourself I guess.

 

[Ilovekaz]

You always compete with yourself I guess.

Since when is someone an industry leader by making 1/4th the revenue their competition does?

 

[Banana]

Just got my Zelda switch 2 last week. OOT comes today, and I’ll pick up Star Fox after I finish FF resonance.

Nintendo is on fire.

 

[Yurinka]

Nintendo shared some interesting charts regarding 1st party vs 3rd party sales and physical (packaged) vs digital (including digital game sales+ addon sales + game sub) sales:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2026/261106e.pdf

 

[Say1nMan]

I think the OLED Switch 2 will release next year.

 

[Zzero]

Splatoon Raiders is really soft, beaten by Rhythm Heaven.

 

[heroeskillrats]

Nintendo's very gung-ho about the gained third party support. Obviously they know everything that haven't been announced yet as well.
"These changes reflect both improved HW performance and the relationships we have continued to strengthen with third party publishers."

 

[Yrassinad]

Just like Wii and PS3. Nintendo won then, then generation 9 and now gen 10, bitch.

Wii and PS3 weren't direct competitors. PS3 was competing against 360. 360 and PS3 basically offered nearly the same thing and are market replacements for each other. The Wii was off doing its own thing and getting grandmas and aunties to do yoga and tennis on the TV. You're straight up retarded if you think Wii was the most popular console that gen with the core gamer audience. You know, the audience that actually stuck around after the gen was over.

The high-end console market was split 50/50 that gen which results in neither of them having enough sales by themselves to outsell the Wii on unit numbers. If either of them had managed to achieve even just 60% market share instead of 50%, they would've outsold the Wii.

Plenty of consoles have come and gone and I just track console sales for fun.

Since the modern age of consoles (not counting the wild west of shit in the early 80s) only Sega has dropped out of the industry.

 

[heroeskillrats]

Wii and PS3 weren't direct competitors

lol

Since the modern age of consoles (not counting the wild west of shit in the early 80s) only Sega has dropped out of the industry.

Out 4 there was then the big 3. Xbox is next so then there's only 2. Sony and Microsoft keeps shutting down studios and laying people off to increase profits but it comes at a cost of losing future games and Nintendo's expanding.
Now that they have third party support the home console is obviously next.
I don't see Playstation surviving long-term vs Nintendo with third party support and dominating the hybrid market and re-entering the traditional home console market.

 

[Yrassinad]

lol

It's true, I know many people who had both consoles because they fulfilled wildly different purposes. 360 and PS3 though, not so much.

Out 4 there was then the big 3. Xbox is next so then there's only 2. Sony and Microsoft keeps shutting down studios and laying people off to increase profits but it comes at a cost of losing future games and Nintendo's expanding.
Now that they have third party support the home console is obviously next.
I don't see Playstation surviving long-term vs Nintendo with third party support and dominating the hybrid market and re-entering the traditional home console market.

Xbox is not going to drop out anytime soon. People have been predicting Xbox to exit for almost a decade now and it still hasn't happened. Sony shutting down studios matters far less than you think, because the bulk of their revenue never came from their first party titles in the first place. Just look at this year. 4 commercial underperformers from their first parties, not a single one of them has made money. And yet they're still up in every quarter.

Nintendo doesn't have third party support on par with PlayStation, PC or even Xbox. And they're not going to make a home console lmao. The volume of Nintendo titles is impressive but again, it's never going to be everyone's cup of tea. If you like AAA cinematic style games with stories for adults, Nintendo has very little to offer in their first party lineup. Plus you're not going to undo 20 years of status quo where PlayStation is seen as the default home console. Undoing that perception will take many many years.

 

[Banana]

AAA cinematic style games with stories for adults

Why not just watch a movie?

 

[heroeskillrats]

I know many people who had both consoles because they fulfilled wildly different purposes

Then you see how redundant Xbox/PS has become.

Just look at this year. 4 commercial underperformers from their first parties, not a single one of them has made money. And yet they're still up in every quarter.

Sony and Microsoft releasing stinkers isn't healthy for their platforms and it makes them look like clowns.

 

[SuperPotato]

Why not just watch a movie?

It goes both ways.

Why not watch the Pokemon anime instead of playing the low budget games?

Why not watch a fantasy cartoon instead of playing Zelda?

 

[Banana]

It goes both ways.

Why not watch the Pokemon anime instead of playing the low budget games?

Why not watch a fantasy cartoon instead of playing Zelda?

Zelda is actually interactive and a game. It’s not press square and move a little bit.