Switch Do you Agree with the Switch 2 Price?

[MegaZero456]

I wanna know if people support the console being $449.99 and the games being 80 to 90 dollars. Personally I believe that the Switch 2 should cost 300 dollars and the games should cost 30-40 dollars but what does everyone else think?

 

[Iguana-0]

How about we roll back prices to 1991? $199 for a console and $20-30 a game?

 

[JusaikiJusaiki's icon]

Let me put it this way, firstly I would like to say that I'm kinda pissed at Nintendo for a lot of things I criticized them 2 years after the first switch and I didn't touch my switch for a long time because of it, even when the leaks were out about the switch 2 I kept my expections as low as I can, and I basically gave up on them then it clicked for me 2 months ago, if Nintendo can deliver this time the customer will have no excuses, just go all out, powerful device tons of feature durable console all that, I knew that Nintendo down the line will milk us dry I had no doubt in that, after all their business plan is "2 steps ahead 1 step back" the plan as it is feeling a little weird expensive console with expensive games right ?
but in reality the game pricing isn't that bad 90 dollars now equals to 60$ in 2017 when the switch 1 came out it's just inflation doing its job and if you don't want me to shock you by the inflation logic games should've been 110 by now with this economy, but Nintendo went for 90 instead which lets be honest that's good on their part what need to change is the console price from 450 to 400 consoles now work with high speed storages and those aren't cheap, so I can't blame Nintendo for raising it, but they did it too much specially when you charge extra for upgraded versions of some games that have no addition with the upgrade alongside the online membership which is just a scam at this point
here is my humble openion on what they should do:
-no extra cost on upgrade with no addones
-400$ instead 450
-cheaper membership
-release switch lite thats 300$
-make a game library for current gen games into your membership with emulators (gamepass-ish style)
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with these few changes, the switch will actually thrive without Nintendo loosing as much money as they thought they will

 

[Hotwer]

Mom said it's my turn to post about the Switch 2 prices /j

Jokes aside, I think the console price should be about 50$ less but honestly, its pretty well priced for its specs. The game price is the one where most will not agree, we just got use to games costing 70$ so having it jump to 80$/90$ is a bit too much.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Considering I only bought the switch OLED only last year yeah I'm not chomping at the bit to buy an upgrade of all the games I bought exclusively already. I'm going to buy another card, load that up on games, and never touch Nintendo products for another 13 years with only a few physical games if found.

 

[Prism_Red]

Let me put it this way, firstly I would like to say that I'm kinda pissed at Nintendo for a lot of things I criticized them 2 years after the first switch and I didn't touch my switch for a long time because of it, even when the leaks were out about the switch 2 I kept my expections as low as I can, and I basically gave up on them then it clicked for me 2 months ago, if Nintendo can deliver this time the customer will have no excuses, just go all out, powerful device tons of feature durable console all that, I knew that Nintendo down the line will milk us dry I had no doubt in that, after all their business plan is "2 steps ahead 1 step back" the plan as it is feeling a little weird expensive console with expensive games right ?
but in reality the game pricing isn't that bad 90 dollars now equals to 60$ in 2017 when the switch 1 came out it's just inflation doing its job and if you don't want me to shock you by the inflation logic games should've been 110 by now with this economy, but Nintendo went for 90 instead which lets be honest that's good on their part what need to change is the console price from 450 to 400 consoles now work with high speed storages and those aren't cheap, so I can't blame Nintendo for raising it, but they did it too much specially when you charge extra for upgraded versions of some games that have no addition with the upgrade alongside the online membership which is just a scam at this point
here is my humble openion on what they should do:
-no extra cost on upgrade with no addones
-400$ instead 450
-cheaper membership
-release switch lite thats 300$
-make a game library for current gen games into your membership with emulators (gamepass-ish style)
----
with these few changes, the switch will actually thrive without Nintendo loosing as much money as they thought they will

Yay, finally! Someone else who understood games are actually cheaper now because of inflation!

Ninty should just go all out at the start, bet we will see Switch 2 V2 few years later down the line.

 

[JusaikiJusaiki's icon]

Yay, finally! Someone else who understood games are actually cheaper now because of inflation!

Ninty should just go all out at the start, bet we will see Switch 2 V2 few years later down the line.

Hey I'm glad Nintendo came out and did 90 and not Fucking Grand Theft Auto coming with 120$, as much as I hate to admit this, but Nintendo saved us this time

 

[psypherchromatic]

Games are "technically" cheaper than they used to be, but with such tight control over digital distribution, companies are making more money than before with each sale of the game sold digitally. Makes sense why Sony and Microsoft have been working at killing off the disc drive.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I sure don't agree with the Nintendo Switch 2's game prices.

 

[UnDubious]

How about we roll back prices to 1991? $199 for a console and $20-30 a game?

Console games were expensive in the early '90s, they weren't 20-30$ at all lol. More like 50$ USD, which in today's money is 116$. But we did get physical cartridges with nice boxes and manuals at least.

Personally I think modern games are too big and too long, I'd rather they make them shorter and less bloated with filler and sell them for less.

 

[happymasksalesman]

I wanna know if people support the console being $449.99 and the games being 80 to 90 dollars. Personally I believe that the Switch 2 should cost 300 dollars and the games should cost 30-40 dollars but what does everyone else think?

(Me realize switch 2 price) ah oh ehhh. 449 dollars? So it become very expensive,....I think I will stay with my old gba(VBA in fact).
What does it have make it that much ? Switch had a moving future if it will be same then why they don't port games for switch itself? If it has better system like graphic and CPU, what's the point to buying now when it only have few games?

 

[kuroninneko]

Im concerned that Nintendo's already laggy online servers will have a hard time with the addition of voice chat and video cameras. The game prices will make me even more selective. I missed a lot of switch games because even 60 is a lot for me especially if I complete the games easily. Its gonna need to be something epic like Zelda or a main series Mario game to justify the purchase. Beat Mario Wonder way too easy and wished I didnt pay full price even if it was cool.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

I'm a broke college student with a shit ton of games and I don't even have Xenoblade X yet. It's already gonna take me a while to catch up with the Switch 1 games much less a new console with $90 games

 

[knowledgexx]

No, but it gives me a chance to get new switch 1 to replacement my OG one. Switch 2 is to rich for my blood.

 

[Raine213]

I think there's an unspoken understanding that Nintendo has been the "affordable" option. They haven't had the edge on multiplats since arguably ever, so you're mostly paying for first party titles. I don't know if people think their first party stuff feels like it's worth the price.

Nintendo's customers also tend to buy multiple units so their kids don't have to fight over them. This price hike might price a lot of people out of that pattern.

We can argue about inflation or hundred dollar games or the 1990s all we want, but the reality is that people can't spend money they don't have. This might break the market, or this might be another WiiU situation, or at least a 3DS price drop pivot.

Making customers buy their pack in game is laughable, making customers buy an upgrade pack or else subscribe to get the S2 enhancements is insulting, and the fact that the carts are just the S1 game and a download code for S2 enhancements is stupid, and going to be a problem for preservation in a decade.

The Express SD cards are a strange frustrating choice. They're not quite Vita bad, but if they needed special throughput, why only provide 32GB on board?

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Ultimately, it seems like they're doing a lot right, and a lot of it looks interesting, but there are a lot of little problems that may lead to a death by a thousand paper cuts. Nintendo has been a really difficult company to like and support for a while. I feel like Reggie and Iwata wouldn't have fumbled this hard.

 

[Graw]

At that price might as well just spend the extra 200 bucks and get the 512GB OLED steam deck. It'll probably be able to emulate the switch 2 soon enough anyway if you really need your bing bing wahoo that badly.

 

[RageBurner]

I'll keep it short and sweet. The only ones agreeing on the price of the Switch 2 is Nintendo's board of directors.

 

[ColonelKurtz]

The only reason I would buy a Switch 2 is to get a launch model that is easily hackable lol

Retro handhelds and a gaming PC have ruined any interest I have in console gaming.

 

[waterxwraith]

Console price is fine. Software price is insane. I'm still thinking it over, personally.

 

[Leon]

The switch console price is a little high but not absurdly.

The games however, are insane, 70$ is too much for a game, much less 80 or 90, and yes i know technically they cost less than they used to but people also tend to leave out the economic factors of every period before, economically wages have not grown since i believe the 80's, this means when games costed 100$, you had more money to spend, yet game costs have only risen in real numbers since the 2008 financial crisis especially while people's actual money hasn't grown since some of their grandparent's era, what this means is that for 90% of people, games might "technically" be cheaper, but that means nothing if your economic situation has gone down or hasn't changed at the same time which by the numbers is likely most people.

So 90$ for games is insane, because it would be the equivalent of 90$ for many people, adjusted to the same salary they'd have had in the 90's, economics isn't merely looking at the higher numbers.

Then we have the "switch upgrade", welcome center and the insane cost of perepherals and to be honest, even sony at it's worst didn't go this foolishly greedy with the ps3.

 

[waterxwraith]

Then we have the "switch upgrade", welcome center and the insane cost of perepherals and to be honest, even sony at it's worst didn't go this foolishly greedy with the ps3.

Nah because why are we being charged for the damn instruction manual game, that should have been a damn pack-in.

 

[UnDubious]

So 90$ for games is insane, because it would be the equivalent of 90$ for many people, adjusted to the same salary they'd have had in the 90's, economics isn't merely looking at the higher numbers.

Minimum wage in the US in 1991 was 4.25$ an hour. It's an exaggeration to say salaries haven't increased since the '80s, however it's true that they haven't kept up with the increase in the cost of living. Also, as a kid none of the families I knew owned all that many games; everyone relied on rental instead for variety, something there is no real replacement for. Gamers routinely owning a million more games than they have time to play is a situation that came about mostly around the time Steam started to get big. But now that we all got used used to games being more affordable it's going to be difficult to ask people to shell out 90 dollars for games, especially for all the lower-profile games.

 

[Frickinfrik]

Not to be political, but I partially blame the price on the tariffs bullshit that’s currently happening.

 

[RageBurner]

In part that is true, but it is a multilayered problem that has always been present, and won't be solved by half measures.

 

[Rorisu]

I say i agree with the prices, but i probably won't buy the console itself for now at least, i think it's a really good console like the first switch, but for me buying a console with today maket prices??? it's just absurd.

Let me explain, i don't think a console price should be more than 200€/$ and i don't think a day one game should be more than 50/60, but in today market? this price i'm talking about are pure fantasy, if we watch switch 1 prices and sales, we should all agree that the switch 2 price is just "what expected" and it's a price at which it would sell well, for games prince instead, i will just say, it's not 80/90 from what i saw, only one game or two have that price and thats clearely a game that will sell for that price, like it's probably a game that will have new editions in the future with dlc added (being it mario kart), but even supposing now they will release games at that price, i will just say that it was the norm to just keep getting highter game price between a generation change, usually about 10€/$ highter each time... so i don't see the game price problems either... for todays market prices...

With that said, we should all remember how many milions copy some 70€/$ games sells before dropping in price, and how many console sells at more than 450€/$ , with that said and the switch 1 actual sale still going more than well... i say the price is just right, but of course, the console market prices are being outright absurd in the last years so i think we shall all consider that instead, it's not switch 2 and switch 2 games prices that are overpriced, it's the console market that is being like that from years... and the market law say "if it sells well, you can go with highter prices to gain more with less copy to sell" and that it's why prices will keep growing... people still buy at this kind of prices at day one, console and games alike... so it's pretty normal that they keep growing the prices, and i think nintendo with switch 2 have just upped the prices at the right pace too considering the switch 1 prices...