Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. (www.nintendo.com)

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Prices for accessories will be increasing to compensate for tariffs.

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[-] Prox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Still gonna skip this and hope for a 3DS-like price drop around the holidays. I'm really hoping Nintendo misses their sales targets big time because fuck these prices.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Personally, I'm at the point of "fuck walled garden ecosystems", not to mention all the legal work they're doing to ruin video games.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Yep, the switch was a great idea to bridge console and handheld. Once the technology is out and the steam deck is open, without subscription, without lock down, allowing all past purchases, etc. ; the console is dead.

[-] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 1 points 1 week ago

Agree. Personally I like having something portable, so I've always complemented my PC with a Nintendo handheld. Thankfully, PCs can now be handhelds too, even including an open operating system.

The only time I even booted my Switch after getting the Steam Deck was to rip all my games and saves from there.

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

This is a pretty good take on all of this. MS, Sony and Nintendo have done nothing but enshitify their platforms in the past few years and yet, they increase the cost of admission at every enshitification step.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Consoles just have a dwindling list of use cases, so trying to create problems that furthers their use is going to have much the same effect as cable companies trying to pretend that streaming video services don't exist.

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Yeah we're very quickly getting to the point that consoles are just moot.

With linux support increasing , I expect that to escalate since a lot more hardware will be in reach for running games.

[-] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Not going to happen. US customers are lucky that Nintendo won't increase the console price.

[-] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, they’re going to sell out immediately and stock is going to be scarce even if they did increase the price.

[-] missingno@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Very unlikely that they even could drop the price with the tariff situation.

[-] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I want one but I can’t afford it right now regardless. So I’ll just be waiting anyways, maybe there will be a sale when I can get one.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

k, ill just wait for the emulator.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The great news is, you don't have to... they're just gonna release a bunch of shit that was already on the switch and charge $90 for it.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Given the tariff position, I’m curious if this will be the first time Nintendo decides to eat the loss on console hardware sales; something usually only other console makers have done.

Perhaps they think Trump will be on his way out. Or they’re eating into their cash reserves to prevent discussion of their consoles from getting political.

[-] missingno@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago

Given the outcry over the price, I think they have no choice but to eat the loss. They can't drop the price, but they can't raise it either. They'll just have to hope that they can bring down manufacturing costs over time.

[-] Marighost@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

They are smoking crack if they think they can sell the Joy Con 2s (Joy Cons 2? Joys 2 Cons?) for $95.

[-] spizzat2@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

2 Joy 2 Cons

[-] dyc3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

2 cons 4 me

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

I never bought a console at launch, this won’t change this time either. I will wait for either the OLED or Lite models, or at least until there’s 5 games that I really want and can’t get anywhere else.

[-] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

I have such a nuanced opinion of Nintendo.

I would prefer to pay for high prices to a company that has the reputation of "consistently fun no matter what (unless its online)".

Why? Because I am tired of paying a 'good' price for other media (or any goods/services) with a bunch of hidden aggressive enshitification. I know that when I buy mario kart, I am getting mario kart.

Can't say the same for most other stuff, especially AAA video games. Nintendo might ask for high prices, but they deliver their product. And that is what I was promised in a capitalist economy, but rarely get it. So I am 'happy' as long as Nintendo doesn't screw me individually.

BUT!!!

Fuck Nintendo for what they have done historically to the smash community. I won't forget.

[-] cattywampas@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah brother, sign me up for that Mario Kart bundle.

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[-] ysjet@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Lmao outrageously priced. It's higher than it was, yes, but I remember the PS3 announcement.

Now THAT was outrageously priced!

$950 for the 60gb model after inflation!

[-] cattywampas@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

I don't think $500 for a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World is outrageous at all.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

It’s the fault of people that bought the Switch 1 from scalpers. It basically showed to Nintendo that people were willing to pay a lot more and that they could’ve charged a lot more. The Switch 2 will also be in short supply and Nintendo rather wants that a buyer pays them $500 than a scalper.

[-] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It’s only “outrageously” priced compared to its predecessor, and only if you don’t think about it too much. Considering under the hood it’s basically a phone or tablet, it’s very fairly priced considering the specs.

The Switch 1 is basically a tablet from 2017 being sold for $300. It never received a price drop despite it using 8 year old technology, it actually received a price increase with the OLED model. An iPad 5th Gen from 2017 sells for $50 on eBay, for comparison purposes. Not like for like as that has a way higher res screen and less RAM, but it’s fairly close.

As it’s a new chip with an expected 10 year lifespan, it’s likely on 3nm process which means it has to fight for manufacturing time with TSMC because they’re the only ones who can fab that sort of chip.

All that, plus the expectation that they will be absorbing some tariff costs for now means it will likely never see a price drop, and honestly doesn’t seem that bad in terms of pricing. It’s the cheapest console on the market with the exception of the very underpowered and useless Series S, and it’s competitively priced in terms of the tech under the hood.

So if it will be the cheapest console of its generation, is already cheaper than its ancient competition, is cheaper than a mid range GPU by itself, and is cheaper or comparably priced with similarly specced devices, then how is it so overpriced?

The only argument I’ve heard yet has been “consoles are sold at a loss because the games are expensive” but that hasn’t been true for the industry since the PS4 era, and it’s literally never been true for Nintendo consoles, they always make a profit right out of the gate. So I honestly don’t get it.