Man I hope so. I've been able to stick to my guns about not buying any GKC yet, but that's only because nothing I care about has released that way yet. It's a ticking clock until that happens.
Waiting for it to be confirmed, i.e. when someone actually starts using them (even if this were true they might not be available to publishers for a while as mentioned also by Does It Play) - that said, would love to see it happen, the more options the better whenever feasible!
Missed a day this year, because Nintendo's online storefront always gives me an error at checkout for the eshop on desktop and I forgot to claim it on my Switch 2.
@Lizuka I truly think this is the best one in the series. It's gorgeous, it plays like a dream, it makes you think and has none of the nastier things like Pikmin randomly walking off edges or into monster mouths as you walk somewhere because you have the dog now!
I have to think this may have motivated the guy at my local game shop pushing the Switch 2 a little extra the last couple of times I was there. Only a little, but I've said "One day, but not yet" enough times to wonder whether the shop's doing well.
@Jhena You mean the weirdo who's utterly obsessed with Nintendo and who went to the midnight launch to watch how many people were in line to prove that the system was a failure?
@Jireland92 It's both. The economy is absolutely in the toilet, can't be argued otherwise. But Nintendo has made a lot of stupid decisions lately that have led to an anti-Nintendo sentiment online I haven't seen since the Wii U days.
@Tisteg80 There is no multiplayer mode and no support for mods but everything else in FS25 is in this release. I can tell you that it's way better than the first FS on Switch (better drawing distance, better resolution, more details/objects, lot more content since FS25 has way lot more activities than FS17 which was the FS ported on switch in 2017).
This would certainly bag Nintendo some goodwill. The GKC chatter is even reaching the “normies” (ie my sister-in-law who is looking at Christmas options for my nieces and is wondering what the heck a GKC even is).
Oof, but is it really a shocker if gaming is increasingly getting expensive each year? If it weren’t for the current economic state and the high pricing on consoles and games, then I bet you that number would have absolutely been higher. And, I feel like if they hadn’t priced the Switch 2 so high, then it very likely could have outsold the PS5 during that time.
But, what I will say is shocking is how the Xbox somehow got outsold by a console I have never heard of until now. Wonder how that happened…even though Xbox has had pretty low hardware sales compared to PlayStation and Nintendo in the past few years, they still manage to sell somewhat decently during holiday periods and always come in third, but maybe it isn’t surprising given they’ve been in a slump for a while…
If we keep blaming other things Nintendo’s gonna stay this way. Yes it’s a Nintendo problem because PS5 is still selling. You can say its other things, but the primary fault is Nintendo’s
And allow me to add some more details and context from VGChartz reporting, because the author of this article wouldn’t: “Switch 2 sales compared to the same month (November) for the Switch 1 in 2017 are down by over 304,000 units, as the Switch 1 sold 890,593 units in the Americas in November 2017.
“913,299 units sold for PS5 in November 2025, the Nintendo Switch 2 was the second best-selling console with an estimated 586,123 units sold.”
> Recession indicators all across the board
> All hardware platforms more expensive this year compared to prior years
> Federal government shutdown leading to no pay for federal employees
> Federal government shutdown leading to no distribution of SNAP benefits
With hindsight, these results were kinda expected.
@PikminMarioKirby Amazing how you've completely overblown both issues. The prices are fine and game key cards are fine. You're freaking out over nothing.
Why fix a game that people were already happy enough if you are not planning on re-release it? I guess the switch 2 version is inevitable... which makes me wait a little more before playing it. The demo was great, but the game looks a bit messy on switch 2 because of the low res.
Yeah, it’s all because of the Game Key Cards, that’s why sales are down. Had nothing to do with the economy, nothing to do with a lack of exclusive S2 software. Nothing to do with the fact that several PS5 bundles, with a disc drive, were available for the same price as a Switch 2 this holiday.
Nope, it’s those dang Key Cards, that’s the real problem. All those brilliant minds who have run billion-dollar companies that post on Reddit and these forums tried to warn you Nintendo, but you wouldn’t listen. And now you will no doubt apologize to everyone and reverse course tomorrow.
@PikminMarioKirby dude thank you for having the courage to say Nintendo has gone too far. That's exactly how I feel. A year ago, I thought the Switch 2 would have been a day one purchase for me. After the announcement of their anti-consumer policies in addition to the absolutely tone-deaf pricing, I'm wondering if I'll ever get one.
Yeah, even if somebody wanted to, they couldn't spin this into something slightly good, especially when you consider that the gaming industry in 1995 wasn't as big as it is now and just six months ago the latest system from one of the industry's legendary companies was released. This definitely isn't good for Nintendo. First holiday season for the Switch 2 and it got smoked by a five-year-old console on Black Friday, lost the month overall and there were several retailers offering deals on the console themselves. Furukawa is a freaking moron and somebody in a top position at Nintendo needs to wake him the heck up soon.
@Nanoline52 The fact that he would even bring it up at all is just as telling. It’s like shouting “I’m innocent!” when nobody was making any accusations to begin with.
Just repeatedly saying the economy is great doesn’t do anything to convince people struggling to make ends meet.
@Nanoline52 Exactly. I remember seeing that from watching Atrioc and yeah it's insane the mental gymnastics the government takes in trying to make their data seem good, when it in fact shows the opposite. But I guess it's really in the benefit of companies, including those in the game sphere, "if dollar amount goes up, then more success!" instead of people actively buying and using things.
Maybe Nintendo will learn a lesson after abandoning it’s fans with the Switch 2. I love the Switch 2, but game key cards, prices of games and amiibo, are too far. They kind of deserve to fail, and maybe they will learn from taking advantage of fans.
I don't think this is completely surprising because I bet a lot of people are very squeezed in the current economy, so I can imagine these sales very easily have to do with that, especially with the negative publicity basically all systems this year have gotten around price stuff
Would be great to hear how much hardware in general and Switch 2 in particular sold elsewhere (apart from Japan, thanks to the charts there we know how well the latter keeps on selling) - if it sold better there then I wouldn't be surprised if it were just a matter of prices including their lowering thanks to discounts, while I know there were some pretty good ones here in Italy, the UK, France etc. also thanks to people mentioning them here on Nintendo Life I don't remember ones in the US.
Mango Mussolini made a post after Black Friday claiming that the folks panicking about holiday sales being crap had been “proven wrong” due to the amount of money spent on Black Friday being up 9% - but, as this article notes in part, what he of course left out is that prices of everything are on average up 9%-13% since he took office. So you can’t claim the economy is going well due to more money being spent since that isn’t actually translating into more items being sold.
Which he knows, but he’s not targeting an audience who would know the difference when he posts something like that.
I can confirm that @Mach_Rider is correct, the Snow Wolves are NOT only in the initial attack, because I thought I missed them myself after dying to them and then fighting them again thinking I had scanned them when I hadn't. But I didn't reset the game since other guides didn't say the Snow Wolf is missable, so I pressed on, with hope.
On the way out of the Ice Belt, I noticed there was something scannable in the distance, on the cliffs of the Snowfield - and sure enough, it was a Snow Wolf. So thankfully, I was able to scan it there.
Not at all shocking given the economic state of the country. Consoles can't keep getting more expensive if consumer spending power is stagnating or even getting worse. I predicted as much when the Switch 2 launched.
@SillyG I've been wanting to try one of these games for years, but if they can't get a game that was on the PSP to run acceptably on Switch 2 then it's an easy pass. ... made easier (and mandatory) by the Game Key Card.
@OctolingKing13 Most of the world is in a recession of varying degrees, and inflation and cost of living is ever growing. No amount of promotions can make people spend money they don't have on something they don't need.
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Re: Rumour: A Game-Key Card Alternative? Nintendo May Have Smaller Switch 2 Carts In The Works
Man I hope so. I've been able to stick to my guns about not buying any GKC yet, but that's only because nothing I care about has released that way yet. It's a ticking clock until that happens.
Re: Rumour: A Game-Key Card Alternative? Nintendo May Have Smaller Switch 2 Carts In The Works
Waiting for it to be confirmed, i.e. when someone actually starts using them (even if this were true they might not be available to publishers for a while as mentioned also by Does It Play) - that said, would love to see it happen, the more options the better whenever feasible!
Re: No Gravity Games Is Giving Away 10 Free Switch Games This Month (North America)
Missed a day this year, because Nintendo's online storefront always gives me an error at checkout for the eshop on desktop and I forgot to claim it on my Switch 2.
Re: Pikmin 4 Has Been Updated To Version 1.1.1, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@Lizuka I truly think this is the best one in the series. It's gorgeous, it plays like a dream, it makes you think and has none of the nastier things like Pikmin randomly walking off edges or into monster mouths as you walk somewhere because you have the dog now!
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@Burning_Spear FS25 on PSP, mmmmm... I'd like to see that...
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@Willo567
He is just a former fan. There is no need to get personal.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
I have to think this may have motivated the guy at my local game shop pushing the Switch 2 a little extra the last couple of times I was there. Only a little, but I've said "One day, but not yet" enough times to wonder whether the shop's doing well.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@Jhena
You mean the weirdo who's utterly obsessed with Nintendo and who went to the midnight launch to watch how many people were in line to prove that the system was a failure?
Re: Rumour: A Game-Key Card Alternative? Nintendo May Have Smaller Switch 2 Carts In The Works
I am really hoping this is true so I can invest in more games that’re truly physical in the future
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@Jireland92
It's both. The economy is absolutely in the toilet, can't be argued otherwise. But Nintendo has made a lot of stupid decisions lately that have led to an anti-Nintendo sentiment online I haven't seen since the Wii U days.
Re: Review: Farming Simulator: Signature Edition - A Passable But Lacklustre Port Ploughs Onto Switch 2
@Tisteg80 There is no multiplayer mode and no support for mods but everything else in FS25 is in this release.
I can tell you that it's way better than the first FS on Switch (better drawing distance, better resolution, more details/objects, lot more content since FS25 has way lot more activities than FS17 which was the FS ported on switch in 2017).
Re: Rumour: A Game-Key Card Alternative? Nintendo May Have Smaller Switch 2 Carts In The Works
This would certainly bag Nintendo some goodwill. The GKC chatter is even reaching the “normies” (ie my sister-in-law who is looking at Christmas options for my nieces and is wondering what the heck a GKC even is).
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Yeah, it is a good time to be NintenDeen.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@PikminMarioKirby
The PS5 was on sale during Black Friday while Switch 2 wasn't. That's why it sold better in November
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Oof, but is it really a shocker if gaming is increasingly getting expensive each year? If it weren’t for the current economic state and the high pricing on consoles and games, then I bet you that number would have absolutely been higher. And, I feel like if they hadn’t priced the Switch 2 so high, then it very likely could have outsold the PS5 during that time.
But, what I will say is shocking is how the Xbox somehow got outsold by a console I have never heard of until now. Wonder how that happened…even though Xbox has had pretty low hardware sales compared to PlayStation and Nintendo in the past few years, they still manage to sell somewhat decently during holiday periods and always come in third, but maybe it isn’t surprising given they’ve been in a slump for a while…
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
If we keep blaming other things Nintendo’s gonna stay this way. Yes it’s a Nintendo problem because PS5 is still selling. You can say its other things, but the primary fault is Nintendo’s
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@TerribleTerabytes So why is it suddenly selling so poorly? Ps5 is way more expensive but is still selling better.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
And allow me to add some more details and context from VGChartz reporting, because the author of this article wouldn’t: “Switch 2 sales compared to the same month (November) for the Switch 1 in 2017 are down by over 304,000 units, as the Switch 1 sold 890,593 units in the Americas in November 2017.
“913,299 units sold for PS5 in November 2025, the Nintendo Switch 2 was the second best-selling console with an estimated 586,123 units sold.”
Yeah, Sony “managed” to beat them.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Not surprising at all. It's a combination of many factors, including the economy and Nintendo's own poor decisions with the Switch 2.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
> Recession indicators all across the board
> All hardware platforms more expensive this year compared to prior years
> Federal government shutdown leading to no pay for federal employees
> Federal government shutdown leading to no distribution of SNAP benefits
With hindsight, these results were kinda expected.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@PikminMarioKirby Amazing how you've completely overblown both issues. The prices are fine and game key cards are fine. You're freaking out over nothing.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
So pretty much everybody’s saying it’s all due to the fact people can’t afford a Switch 2
But they can afford a PS5???
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Americans voted for this.
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Does it have multiplayer mode? Via Wireless LAN?
The game looks like the Switch 1 Game from 2017/18. What a shame
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@Nanoline52 MANGO MUSSOLINI?! xD
I've never heard that one before, but I'm gonna start using that now xD
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
I wish I could say I remember a time when video games were affordable, but affordability is a democratic hoax, so I must be imagining things, clearly.
Re: Pikmin 4 Has Been Updated To Version 1.1.1, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Why fix a game that people were already happy enough if you are not planning on re-release it?
I guess the switch 2 version is inevitable... which makes me wait a little more before playing it. The demo was great, but the game looks a bit messy on switch 2 because of the low res.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
RIP Xbox, getting outsold in its home country by something most people have never heard of 😬.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Yeah, it’s all because of the Game Key Cards, that’s why sales are down. Had nothing to do with the economy, nothing to do with a lack of exclusive S2 software. Nothing to do with the fact that several PS5 bundles, with a disc drive, were available for the same price as a Switch 2 this holiday.
Nope, it’s those dang Key Cards, that’s the real problem. All those brilliant minds who have run billion-dollar companies that post on Reddit and these forums tried to warn you Nintendo, but you wouldn’t listen. And now you will no doubt apologize to everyone and reverse course tomorrow.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@PikminMarioKirby this is far deeper than disgruntled Nintendo fans. The economy is in the toilet and people can’t afford the new tech.
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Didn’t care for any of the TT “games”, so this is probably a pass for me.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@PikminMarioKirby dude thank you for having the courage to say Nintendo has gone too far. That's exactly how I feel. A year ago, I thought the Switch 2 would have been a day one purchase for me. After the announcement of their anti-consumer policies in addition to the absolutely tone-deaf pricing, I'm wondering if I'll ever get one.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@koekiemonster An android cube that has family focused games, the Wii of 2025...
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Yeah, even if somebody wanted to, they couldn't spin this into something slightly good, especially when you consider that the gaming industry in 1995 wasn't as big as it is now and just six months ago the latest system from one of the industry's legendary companies was released. This definitely isn't good for Nintendo. First holiday season for the Switch 2 and it got smoked by a five-year-old console on Black Friday, lost the month overall and there were several retailers offering deals on the console themselves. Furukawa is a freaking moron and somebody in a top position at Nintendo needs to wake him the heck up soon.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@Nanoline52 The fact that he would even bring it up at all is just as telling. It’s like shouting “I’m innocent!” when nobody was making any accusations to begin with.
Just repeatedly saying the economy is great doesn’t do anything to convince people struggling to make ends meet.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@Nanoline52 Exactly. I remember seeing that from watching Atrioc and yeah it's insane the mental gymnastics the government takes in trying to make their data seem good, when it in fact shows the opposite. But I guess it's really in the benefit of companies, including those in the game sphere, "if dollar amount goes up, then more success!" instead of people actively buying and using things.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Maybe Nintendo will learn a lesson after abandoning it’s fans with the Switch 2. I love the Switch 2, but game key cards, prices of games and amiibo, are too far. They kind of deserve to fail, and maybe they will learn from taking advantage of fans.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
I don't think this is completely surprising because I bet a lot of people are very squeezed in the current economy, so I can imagine these sales very easily have to do with that, especially with the negative publicity basically all systems this year have gotten around price stuff
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ive alrdy preordered the bundle edition with all 3 games last month so cant wait.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
this is not good for anyone in the gaming industry or for the rest of us especially with people losing jobs.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Would be great to hear how much hardware in general and Switch 2 in particular sold elsewhere (apart from Japan, thanks to the charts there we know how well the latter keeps on selling) - if it sold better there then I wouldn't be surprised if it were just a matter of prices including their lowering thanks to discounts, while I know there were some pretty good ones here in Italy, the UK, France etc. also thanks to people mentioning them here on Nintendo Life I don't remember ones in the US.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Yup.
—(POLITICS WARNING - BUT IT’S DIRECTLY RELEVANT)—
Mango Mussolini made a post after Black Friday claiming that the folks panicking about holiday sales being crap had been “proven wrong” due to the amount of money spent on Black Friday being up 9% - but, as this article notes in part, what he of course left out is that prices of everything are on average up 9%-13% since he took office. So you can’t claim the economy is going well due to more money being spent since that isn’t actually translating into more items being sold.
Which he knows, but he’s not targeting an audience who would know the difference when he posts something like that.
Stupid god damn timeline.
Re: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: Scan Logbook Locations, Including All Missable Scans
@Olliemar28 @Bolt_Strike
I can confirm that @Mach_Rider is correct, the Snow Wolves are NOT only in the initial attack, because I thought I missed them myself after dying to them and then fighting them again thinking I had scanned them when I hadn't. But I didn't reset the game since other guides didn't say the Snow Wolf is missable, so I pressed on, with hope.
On the way out of the Ice Belt, I noticed there was something scannable in the distance, on the cliffs of the Snowfield - and sure enough, it was a Snow Wolf. So thankfully, I was able to scan it there.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Xbox got outsold by something I've never even heard of lol
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
First off RIP Xbox. Brand is dead.
Second, I think it’s funny that it was also the same month that the Switch overtook the PS2 sales
Numbers to be the best selling console of all time.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Not at all shocking given the economic state of the country. Consoles can't keep getting more expensive if consumer spending power is stagnating or even getting worse. I predicted as much when the Switch 2 launched.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
What is a NEX Playground?
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
Clearly this means we should raise tariffs and hope prices don’t rise more
Re: Review: Farming Simulator: Signature Edition - A Passable But Lacklustre Port Ploughs Onto Switch 2
@SillyG I've been wanting to try one of these games for years, but if they can't get a game that was on the PSP to run acceptably on Switch 2 then it's an easy pass. ... made easier (and mandatory) by the Game Key Card.
Re: The US Suffered Its Worst November Since 1995 In Terms Of Hardware Sales
@OctolingKing13 Most of the world is in a recession of varying degrees, and inflation and cost of living is ever growing. No amount of promotions can make people spend money they don't have on something they don't need.