The console itself is fine, iirc the ps5 was like 500 bucks? So this isn't that crazy imo
The game prices are plain ridiculous though. They need to be lowered.
While I don't mind the price of the console,the game pricing is putting me off completely so I don't plan on buying one at launch simply to not send Nintendo the message that I agree with their new game pricing.
If individual games are expensive, they need to make the machine itself affordable to compensate, or vice-versa. Nintendo's blue ocean policy will all but guarantee people will buy it anyway, regardless.
"Yay, finally! Someone else who understood games are actually cheaper now because of inflation!"
Yes, but salaries have not risen at the rate of inflation, so for us the games are not cheaper. Furthermore, I doubt that Nintendo employees' salaries have increased at the same rate as inflation, so even if there are other costs that have suffered inflation, Nintendo mainly wants to increase its margins.
I don't mind the price if they can make sure the availability of the console during launch. and broaden the sales area, I live in the country that are not officially release, so it'll be more expensive than the MSRP. Also, they should reduce the digital version more compared to physical games
If you want to know what Nintendo's ethos is, all you have to do is look at their HQ. Look at that building and tell me it doesn't look like a derelict lab where terrible experiments happen.
While we are getting poorer year after year because of inflation, the salaries of big business executives have increased dramatically over the past 20 years.
This is one of the reasons why I no longer endorse this system. I don't buy consoles anymore, only old used PCs like Dell pro and I play via emulation or i buy my games 10$ maximum on Gog.
Console price is fine, just keep in mind they're making you pay an unnecessary like extra 50 bucks for that garbage ass camera no ones gonna use. Everything factors into the price unfortunately.
Console price is fine, just keep in mind they're making you pay an unnecessary like extra 50 bucks for that garbage ass camera no ones gonna use. Everything factors into the price unfortunately.
I thought it was? In that case the price is ridiculous, the LCD Steam Deck is cheaper than the Switch 2 and has the same amount of storage and same screen and better specs on top of all that than the Swirch 2. "But no exclusives!" You're not buying a 100 dollar game post tax anyway.
When factoring the price we have to look at all the meaningless trash the Switch 2 has, the magnetic joycons are also factored in, the camera if its part of the standard release, pretty much everything goes into the price. But if there's no camera then the price in my opinion based on hardware should technically drop yo 400 at least. "But a camera shouldn't cost $50" Yeah. It shouldn't. But we all know Nintendo.
Absolutely not, it is the most expensive out of the other current gen consoles on the market, including the Steam Deck. You can buy a Switch OLED for nearly half the price & you'll still have 99% of the Switch 2's library.
They really need to slash the price by $70-$100 for it to be reasonable, and that's not unprecedented either since that's what they done to the 3DS (which cost $250 at launch, but was then cut down to $180 after a year of poor sales).
Nintendo is no longer the budget option I guess, was really disappointed with how the game keycards seem to be just glorified drm; but not entirely surprised with how most western devs cheaped out with the small capacity switch cartridges and downloading the rest of the game. The whole thing feels like the wii u all over again.
OK then, I guess people didn't get the memo. So fun fact (this not political, just fact) due to the Tariffs, Nintendo pulled the pre-order cause due to uncertain future, that price may go up during the summer. You might want to go to Canada to get it cheaper....also might actually get it considering Scalpers are selling fakes by the dozen. What a world we live...
People are defending the prices saying that's because of inflation and that old consoles would cost the same, if not more, nowadays, but they tend to forget that our paychecks didn't go up as well.
Well, to be fair, I'm still a student; I was jobless in 2017 and I'm jobless in 2025.
The console itself isn't the biggest problem lmo (despite 470 euros being still a bit high), it's that everything else related to the console either has unreasonable prices or it's surrounded by anti-consumer choices.
One of the new gimmicks of the console, which is a basic video chat (running at roughly 9fps in the video presentation), is blocked behind a paid subscription; digital games are 70/80 euros, and physical ones are even higher despite some of them not even having the full game on the cartridge; accessories for the console have even higher prices than the last generation; and lastly, Nintendo decided to launch the Switch 2 with many titles from the Switch with small updated. Paid updates, to be precise. Surely they'll release a lot of new titles as well, but I'm growing tired of having the same game launched two or even three times on three different consoles with "new content" at full price; I'm starting to understand how Wii/Wii U owners felt.
Because of America fucking up something with the Tarrifs', I cannot describe the price of the Switch 2 until the price gets updated post-tariffs. But for the price of 450, it's still lower than it's contenders Xbox and PS5, but still that's a very high price. I don't know for this one.
People are defending the prices saying that's because of inflation and that old consoles would cost the same, if not more, nowadays, but they tend to forget that our paychecks didn't go up as well.
Well, to be fair, I'm still a student; I was jobless in 2017 and I'm jobless in 2025.
The console itself isn't the biggest problem lmo (despite 470 euros being still a bit high), it's that everything else related to the console either has unreasonable prices or it's surrounded by anti-consumer choices.
One of the new gimmicks of the console, which is a basic video chat (running at roughly 9fps in the video presentation), is blocked behind a paid subscription; digital games are 70/80 euros, and physical ones are even higher despite some of them not even having the full game on the cartridge; accessories for the console have even higher prices than the last generation; and lastly, Nintendo decided to launch the Switch 2 with many titles from the Switch with small updated. Paid updates, to be precise. Surely they'll release a lot of new titles as well, but I'm growing tired of having the same game launched two or even three times on three different consoles with "new content" at full price; I'm starting to understand how Wii/Wii U owners felt.
Yeah anyway I'm still playing on my Vita.
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Apparently it's not. The official camera from the site is 60 euros/dollars/whatever
It's all Wii U all over again, isn't it? I'm gonna buy a regular Switch, used, and just solder mod it. Definitely 5 times more worthwhile, there isn't even any online games worth playing on Switch anymore to be honest.
Honestly... I don't buy games brand new anymore. So the price increase doesn't matter to me. I'll just wait for the prices to fall. It happens with any console that is popular enough. I mean just look at the average price of a Wii game or a DS game.
If people want to spend £90 on a game. That's their choice. If developers want to sell their games for £90, that's also their choice. My opinion doesn't matter.
As an example, I personally don't think buying a house should put you in debt for the rest of your life, but if people are willing to buy them for that amount of money and people are willing to sell them for that amount of money, who am I to tell them otherwise. It just alienates me, and it's not like anyone owes me anything.
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