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As gaming becomes more and more expensive I’ve found myself going back to retro. Just ain’t enough money left after everything else has gone up to spend on gaming anymore.
Same here. I've been emulating some old PlayStation 1 games lately and man I forgot how fucking awesome Breath of Fire 3 was.
Kinda figured this was gonna happen, glad I got mine at launch.
As if I needed another reason to not get one…
I remember getting the 3DS on launch day. It was considered expensive at the time, people complained, sales were sluggish, it got a price cut within six months, and I was given various digital goodies to make up for it.
Now, people buying the console more than a year after launch are getting a price increase instead. What an insane time to live in.
Video game console prices have never gone up like they have in the last decade. Never since video games were invented.
While some consoles have been more expensive on launch when adjusting for inflation, they usually plummeted in price shortly thereafter.
It's a uniquely bad time in history to be a console gamer.
On the other hand it's never been a better time to be a PC player. I pick up multiple free games every day. I have decades of classics I can emulate. I have vast choices of the hardware I can use. I use Proton to run games flawlessly on an OS they were never designed for, and I can even use something like GameNative to run them on the phone I've already got in my pocket!
Wages are not up. I'm not going to spend that much money on a redundant toy. Pay me more then I'll think about it.
Funny that they waited to raise the price until after the tariffs were decided to be illegal.
12GB DDR5 for just 50€ extra? Sounds kind of ok if we could get half of the RAM out and put it into PCs...
But maybe they should consider reviving the 3DS as it only used 128MB (they could produce 90x 3DS for a Switch 2)
Glad I already got one then. I even said, it'll never be cheaper than it is now, at launch. And un-fucking-fortunately I was right. I did not want to be right.
Market conditions: Xbox and Sony already did it in anticipation of GTA 6
In response to component price increases.
That's what they claim, of course.
It's extremely easy to see that that's what's going on, if you've tried buying your own memory or storage lately. They'd love to lower the prices of their hardware, all three of these console manufacturers, so that you end up spending more in their high-margin ecosystem, but this is the reality of the situation. Too many companies are bidding on the same parts right now, at least until the AI bubble fully pops.
Component prices have increased though.
it’s called the Switch 2 because people who aren’t rich have to Switch 2 a different hobby
With this economy I just wait until this shows up in a pawn shop somewhere. Or more likely fuck buying that have plenty of PC games to play.
Their games never drop in price, and they are priced higher than anyone else. Don't buy this shit ever. If you really want, emulate it. That's the closest you should get to it. (Even then, is there anything worth it? There are too many amazing PC games already. I don't need to play the fairly generic stuff Nintendo makes.)
A few titles actually went in clearance at Costco which is somewhat rare:
https://kotaku.com/costco-sale-switch-2-games-cheap-pokemon-2000688792
Prices ending in 97 at that store indicate they wanted to get rid of the inventory to make room for other items, not sure the reasoning for it though, could be just newer games for the same system (since it also varies by location).
Edit: Looks like Walmart had a similar sale ($35-$40) for even more titles including bananza, so something is definitely different when compared to previous Nintendo pricing deals with retailers.
Nothing like paying even $50 more to play games that you've already played for the last 15 to 20 years and also repaying for those games, spending between $50 and $70 fucking dollars US for the privilege.
Nintendo have lost their goddamn minds.
Don't bother buying a Switch or a Switch 2 if you've already got a gaming PC. Just emulate that shit.
I’m not buying anything Nintendo. I would love for you to tell me how and where to emulate switch 2.
I don't believe there is anything that requires something unique about the Switch 2 to run, so emulating the original Switch should get you all the games already.
Well, except for all the Switch 2 exclusives like Mario Kart World and the new Kirby Air Ride.
Although, to be fair, there are still a good number of first-party games still releasing on both systems.
Thanks, Trump.
/s aside,
Trump had as much as an effect of GPU/RAM/SSD prices as Biden had on inflation.
Which was none.
Oh come on, not even you believe that.
Trump literally put tariffs on everything. How could he not have an effect?
Oh yes.. please explain how American's paying high prices for items they import somehow made the rest of the world pay more as well.
I'd love to know how US Tariff's affected a Canadian company importing something from China. or how US Tariff's affected India importing stuff from Japan.
Please explain...
A lot of product to Canada comes up through American trade routes.
You don't think unpredictable tariffs and rampant deregulation across the entire economy have had an effect on prices?
Plus oil prices going up due to blocking the Straight of Hormuz, which in turn increases transportation costs
Okay, lets be real. The companies were frothing at the mouth just looking for an easy scapegoat excuse whether it fits or not. They were going to increase the prices regardless of world conditions as they pull in record profits quarter after quarter. Its just easy for them to blame tariffs or other things to take the heat off of the reality that they are just immensely greedy.
If the tariffs were entirely cancelled tomorrow, prices would absolutely not come down to pre-tariff prices.
They were going to increase the prices regardless of world conditions
All of them, at exactly the same time?
Sure, price fixing is a thing that happens all the time even though it's illegal.
Why do you guys defend corporations? They've shown time and time and again they're pure evil motivated only by profit. They don't get the benefit of the doubt.
The big 5 in DRAM chips manufacturers literally got fined by the FTC for price fixing in 2002. They admitted to price fixing from 1998-2002.
Verdun Oil and XLC Resources just got fined in 2025 for purposefully shutting down EPs crude oil drilling plans prior to a merger notification to antitrust authorities (called gun-jumping) which caused a massive crude oil supply shortage whcih was intentional to keep prices high.
Medical companies got fined this year for price fixing on insulin.
The prices were always going to go up regardless of the economy or the current US president, because the prices aren't effected by those nearly as much as they are effected by shareholder greed and demand for short term profit at the expense of everything else.
The big 5 in DRAM chips manufacturers literally got fined by the FTC for price fixing in 2002. They admitted to price fixing from 1998-2002.
Don't forget they essentially did the same from 2016-2018, though that case was dismissed and they got away with it, even though there was seemingly obvious collusion. Weird how even though the case was dismissed, RAM prices utterly tanked for a while after.
Yeah, I'm not sure how US tariffs and US regulations have any effect on Japan, or UK, or Aus, or every other country in the world that also suffered inflation and high GPU/RAM/SSD prices.
I remember when companies wanted you to be locked into their ecosystem and buy their games so much they'd lose money on the console. "Loss leader".
That was never Nintendo, to be fair. They’ve never really played that game like Sony and MS did.
Exactly, their hardware was usually always off the shelf parts making them cheap to make. Nes? Custom 6503. Gameboy? Custom z90 with a off the shelf dmg screen. The gba ? Its carts can be made of like 4 different type of rom.chips depending on what was cheapest and sram also came in different flavours through its life time. Gamecube/wii/wiiu? Sure was a ppc that was already designed. Switch? Same nvidia x1 that was inside some tablets and the nvidia shield.
Its what nintendo does and the engineering needed for it is on a different level imo
+$50 so they can sell you starfox for a THIRD time
Oh you sweet summer child. 3th? I think youre missing a few :p
- starfox ( snes )
- starfox 64 / lylat wars ( n64 )
- stargox assualt ( gamecube, counts partly )
- starfox command ( ds )
- starfox 3D ( 3ds )
- starfox zero ( wiiu, we dont talk about starfox zero )
... And i will probably get this one too 😅😂
This is relevant.
I was looking at the exclusive titles for Switch 2... and it's beyond me to understand why I need another Mario Kart or Smash Bros, especially with that dumbass entry price.
It's already ridiculously expensive for what it is. $700 in store here in Australia
$700 AUD is about equivalent, given its $449 USD (before sales tax, their version of the GST).
449 x $1.38 ForEx ~$620. +10% GST = $682.
The only way you could get it for a better price would be to buy it directly from Japan, where it’s only ~¥49,980 ($440 AUD).
The biggest surprise is they gave people an almost 4 month heads up. Still won't be getting one, not enough games I'm interested in and they seem to be losing their touch with the string of mediocre titles they've been releasing.
Perhaps they're betting on people that were holding out on a Switch 2 will see this as their only opportunity to grab one, since it ain't getting cheaper.
They'll get a bump in sales from the announcement, for sure, though it will mean less sales in the long run. They really needed a killer app to push more people to buy it before the price hike. Perhaps they have one coming before Sept., but I kinda doubt it.
Given that it's been literally the best selling console in history so far, I'm not so sure they needed a killer app, which they already have in both DK Bananza and Pokopia.
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