Switch 2 Had Its Busiest Month Ever and My Wallet Wont Stop Crying

November has been insane for Switch 2. Like genuinely overwhelming. More big releases in one month than some consoles get in a year and my bank account is suffering.

Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment on November 6th. Yakuza Kiwami and Kiwami 2 on the 13th. Dragon Ball Sparking Zero on the 14th. SpongeBob Titans of the Tide on the 18th. Kirby Air Riders on the 20th. And those are just the big ones. Theres like a dozen smaller releases I havent even looked at yet.

The exclusive strategy is aggressive. Hyrule Warriors and Kirby are Switch 2 only. No cross gen. You want these games you need the new hardware. Nintendo basically saying “the old console era is over, deal with it.” And based on Circana data showing Switch 2 is 68% ahead of the original Switch sales pace apparently people are dealing with it just fine.

Age of Imprisonment is clever because its filling in Zelda lore that Tears of the Kingdom only hinted at. The whole Demon King Ganondorf invasion story. Play as Zelda and Rauru and all those characters. For hardcore Zelda fans its basically mandatory. Smart way to sell consoles to an audience that will definitely buy.

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero running on Switch 2 is a big deal too. That games been huge on other platforms and now handheld players can get in on it. Same with Yakuza. Square Enix announced FF7 Remake is coming eventually. Even Elden Ring supposedly has a Switch 2 version in the works. The days of Nintendo hardware missing major third party releases might actually be ending.

My one complaint is the game key card thing. Some of these physical releases are just a card with a download code instead of an actual cartridge. I get the business reasons but it defeats the whole point of buying physical for people who actually want to own their games. Nintendo Life had a whole breakdown of which November releases were real physical vs code in box and it was more confusing than it should be.

December has Metroid Prime 4 which is obviously the big one. Then 2026 is shaping up with Mario Tennis Fever in February, Resident Evil stuff, that FromSoftware Duskbloods exclusive. Nintendo clearly planning to make the Switch 2 feel worth it even for people with massive Switch 1 libraries.

Im going to be eating ramen for the rest of the year but at least ill have good games to play while I do it. Nintendo knows what theyre doing. As usual.