Switch Do you Agree with the Switch 2 Price?

[NOTthatHARD]

I guarantee you that the Switch 2 is going to be another disaster like the 3DS or WII U.

 

[bjork]

I guarantee you that the Switch 2 is going to be another disaster like the 3DS or WII U.

75 million is a disaster now? Wii U I'll give you, but come now.

 

[Leon]

They just paused pre-orders because of the tariffs so it seems like they didn't even take them into account, or at least didn't expect the tariffs imposed to be this pants-on-head crazy.

Not really crazy, in fact i expected it to be far worse, aka parity (90% vs 46%).
It's possible the tariffs won't be in effect long as vietnam is already begging trump to come to negotiations, but even if it did, the 80$ for digital games would not be effected by the tariffs, the tariffs have only targeted physical goods from what i understand, so these prices are likely not the fault of the tariffs.

Personally i think this is gonna do some serious damage to nintendo, mario kart 8 couldn't save the wii-u, i doubt mario kart world will be any different.

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75 million is a disaster now? Wii U I'll give you, but come now.

The 3ds at launch was a disaster, so much so they had to lower prices for it, afterwards it sold well.

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

No one in their right mind would tolerate an $80 game

Maybe, maybe not. There's already tons of popular games that cost $100 or more because they don't ship the full game on the disk and require extra paid content for the full game. Or hell, there's lots of "free" games that trick players into dropping hundreds of dollars on content. If a game is $80 but is a complete game and the company is upfront about everything than I can imagine a lot of people would be comfortable paying that much (or waiting for a sale).

But as it stands, there's only one $80 Switch 2 game, and that's Mario Kart. But if you're buying a Switch 2 and Mario Kart just get the bundle where the game is $50, it's silly to pay extra.

$90

There is not a single $90 Switch 2 game.

a $90 physical game you still don't own because it's just a glorified download link

Not every game is a game-key card. Most games are normal and will have the full content on the game card (unless there's an update patch or you get DLC or something).

The game-key cards are just a replacement for the Switch 1 games that have the blue banner on the box saying "download required", it's not actually anything new. But it's actually a big improvement because those Switch 1 titles just had a download code inside of a box, the game-key cards use the game card itself instead of a code meaning that the customer will have the ability to resell the game in the used market if they desire (this is not possible with the blue-banner games).

I feel that the Switch 2 is going to perform like the Wii U did

I guess we'll have to wait and see but considering that I had to wait for 4 hours yesterday just to enter a lottery for a pre-order tells me that this is probably not the case. More than anything it sounds like you have fallen victim to misinformation.

 

[BunnyLain]

There wouldn't be misinformation if Nintendo would just tell people what they're selling and for what price. The regional pricing disparities are insane and the price of the games is absolutely crazy. I see why Nintendo are doing it though since they barely put games out any way, so every game needs to pull more weight.

But I imagine this will just sell more copies than ever before again and Nintendo will take all the wrong lessons from this. Enjoy your digital only live service subscription live action open world nuts and bolts gacha metroid game next everyone!

Honestly as long as nintendo is still making fun games, I'm fine with how they price it, it just means I need to save up longer to buy them eventually. With how crazy inflation is and how wages keep changing, who knows. This might be a reasonable price in five years.

I think whats more interesting is that if things like Borderlands 4 are going to be super expensive on Switch 2, how are they going to justify that price on the PC? Nintendo's approach is expensive console, expensive games. To them it works, you own the console, you have to buy the games. It doesn't do anything otherwise. If they make profit on either item, then yea why would they care? This isnt like Valve who wanted more people buying games on steam so they sold the steam deck at a loss.

 

[Egg (McMuffin) Man]

The regional pricing disparities are insane

How? Regional pricing disparities are a problem on every platform. Always have been. Monster Hunter World is $100 for the base game in Japan, how much is it in your country?

 

[BunnyLain]

You mean Wilds or Worlds?
The new one is £60, which is much less than the $100 in japan, especially taking into account average earnings there. If you're arguing the price of games is too much for the people in Japan. Yes, it is. But I'll argue it's too damn much for every country, games have always been too damn expensive.

 

[Insomnia_ig]

I guarantee you that the Switch 2 is going to be another disaster like the 3DS or WII U.

Tbh I don't think it's going to do as bad as the 3DS or Wii U but I do think it will underperform and sell less than the Switch 1. Like I don't think it's going to meet sales expectations

 

[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.

 

[PrismRed]

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 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.

 

[RRR213]

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.