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Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by deckerswitch »

Fricken wrote: post #93
harimau777 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, a significant part of the enjoyment in gaming for me is the community aspects of talking about the latest popular game. Unfortunately, that means that while games on the previous cycle's console are often still good, they innately lack one of the biggest parts of gaming as a hobby for me.

I'm with you, but The Switch2 has so far mostly been dropping remakes of classic games, and games already released years ago on other platforms.

DK Bananza, Mario Kart World, Pokopia have all been big hits here.

And the DLC for various other first party games (Kirby, etc) is quite popular with the kiddo.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by hectdev »

SwtCyber wrote: post #94

The Switch 2 price bump isn't too surprising, but increasing the price of the old Switch models this late is pretty wild...

If it is a matter of cost of manufacturing and shipping going up, doesn't that make sense? Can't speak to the digital services going up, however.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by jjordan »

metadat wrote: post #112

I bought a Steam Deck earlier this year and haven’t touched my Switch since. Nintendo hardware and games were already obscenely overpriced imo, so this is essentially a nail in the coffin for folks who were already questioning Nintendo’s prices and value proposition. Does Nintendo intentionally make its hardware really underpowered and cheap in terms of chips to juice profits? In the past this was more the case, but…

Nintendo hardware IMO is mostly reasonably priced. Their first party game library is why many buy into the ecosystem and they charge a premium for it. The original Switch was under-powered but also the first of its kind. The Switch 2 was mostly a hardware bump with additional polish to the rough edges of the original Switch.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by campbell000 »

metadat wrote: post #112

I bought a Steam Deck earlier this year and haven’t touched my Switch since. Nintendo hardware and games were already obscenely overpriced imo, so this is essentially a nail in the coffin for folks who were already questioning Nintendo’s prices and value proposition. Does Nintendo intentionally make its hardware really underpowered and cheap in terms of chips to juice profits? In the past this was more the case, but…

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Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by tejohnso »

deckerswitch wrote: post #115
tejohnso wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wonder if you could indicate why you're waiting for a Switch 2 vs say a Steam Deck? Or do you also have a deck? I ask because I'm planning to gift one or the other. The recipient already has a Switch 1, so I thought it would be pretty lame to give a Switch 2 rather than "upgrading" to a deck. In my mind, being able to play any steam game, on a device with highly praised controls, is the better upgrade, not the Switch…

I bought a switch 2 over a steam deck. I have over a thousand steam games. A few reasons: Nintendo makes fun games that I want to play. I want to play the new Metroid, the new Pokémon games, Kirby DLC, etc. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I grew up with the original Metroid, and that series sticks with me. The switch 1 gets a ton of use in my house. Switch 1 games perform so much better on the 2. The pro controller for the…

All good points, thanks for the input.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by kyrra »

pjmlp wrote: post #70
kyrra wrote: post #65

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I bought a switch 2 for one main reason: speed. Switch 2 is backwards compatible with switch 1. Switch 2 has better FPS for Switch 1 games. Like BotW stops having terrible FPS drops in certain scenarios. Switch 2 loads games faster. There are test videos out there, but it's up to twice as fast. I like the joycon 2 controllers ergonomics more.

For some people the speed is worth the money, for others it isn't I started gaming with Nintendo's Game&Watch handhelds, Timex 2068, PC MS-DOS 3.3, Amiga, and so on, so I do understand something about upgrading hardware for speed, or deal with what one has at home.

I have been partially wanting one for the new one for a couple of the games, but then all four of my existing joy-cons on my Switch 1 started to have drift or other issues. So that sort of halfway saved me some money towards something I already wanted.

Though I sadly learned afterwards that you could send in controllers with drift and Nintendo would fix it for free.

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