Mochizuki persists with this narrative of “struggling” Switch 2 software sales (image above). He asserts the NS2 attach rate being 2.18 by simply dividing the Q3 sell-in numbers (3793/1737=2.18; image below), completely missing the following factors:
- Digital NS2 “Edition” sales are counted as NS1
- Digital only games are not reported
- NS2 upgrade packs are not reported
- NS2 owners may buy NS1 games
In the article he also keeps up the drumbeat of “pressure” on Nintendo’s margin, even though just recently he praised Sony G&NS’s anemic 8.73% margin and still loss-making hardware.
To substantiate his story, Mochizuki interviewed one single “gamer” in the whole of Tokyo to back him up by claiming that PS5/PC storage upgrades “cost about half as much” as Switch 2’s memory cards. The top 2 search results on Amazon (as of today; images below) easily disprove that.
There are forum posts better researched.
[Originally posted on 2026-03-05 Pacific Time]
