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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 mcphage »

uncircle wrote: post #82
echelon wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll wait for the Ocarina of Time remake. The leaks have been coming out for months now and say it is supposedly coming out this fall. The upcoming Legend of Zelda film sets seem to be based on Ocarina of Time, recent merchandise (LEGO sets, etc.) are based on Ocarina of Time to enhance marketing, etc. Nintendo just dropped the official Starfox 64 remake news yesterday, so this rumor is likely pretty legitimate. I do…

Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia. I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again. Incidentally they will be also easier to AI generate, as part of their existing data set. It truly is t…

> Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia.

The thing is, though—Ocarina of Time is a good game. It was a good game almost 30 years ago when it first came out, and it's still a good game today. But there are generations of gamers who never played it. So why not spend some money to polish it up for modern audiences, and release it for newer consoles?

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by FunHearing3443 »

nsxwolf wrote: post #137
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…

Does anyone really find the Switch 2 to be underpowered? Is the Steam Deck really that much more powerful, and is it worth the extra 100 grams of weight? Metroid Prime 4 looks amazing, and you can choose 4K@60 or 1080p@120. I don't really care about generated frames or whatever AI magic the console is doing to pull it off, it looks great.

The switch 2 is definitively more powerful than the steam deck and also supports DLSS.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by cknoxrun »

gekoxyz wrote: post #126
stevenwoo wrote: post #107

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I just checked and it’s $53 at Costco. Also free to rent without waitlist at local library.

your local library rents Nintendo Switch games???

I'm not sure where the original poster is from, but where I'm at (Canada) my local library has a large gaming collection, including Switch 2 games. The bigger games you have to wait a while on the hold list, but there are plenty of games available at any time, for free.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by cyberrock »

thrownawaysz wrote: post #46

I wish I have the means to travel to Japan right now because prices never been cheaper, especially food. Feels like missing out on a great opportunity

Japanese storefronts still have rather limited stock of only Japan-locked consoles (shop region and console language locked to Japan). IIUC right now the only way to get the usual international console is through the Nintendo online shop with a 50-hour playtime JP Nintendo account.

You'd probably better off taking a side trip to Korea or Taiwan.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by pjmlp »

Larrikin wrote: post #134
pjmlp wrote: post #98

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I grew up in a time when we got one or two games a year, if we wanted more games, piracy with double deck tapes, or programming our own games, were the only options available. Thus it is hard to feel the need to be talking about the latest popular game.

Did you also walk fifteen miles up hill both ways to school? Times change, but even back in the Nintendo Power days people would definitely flock to the home of whoever got Super Mario World 2 or Super Smash Bros first because there was no way to play those online and everyone would then talk about the games.

Nintendo was never that big in most European countries, when we talked about games on the playground during primary school it was about Game & Watch devices.

During highschool we were trading Spectrum, C64, PC and Amiga stuff on the playground, no one cared about consoles.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by someguyiguess »

kyrra wrote: post #129
pjmlp wrote: post #70

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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.

Yep. They'll do anything but build their controllers with hall effect joysticks.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by bzzzt »

kyrra wrote: post #65
pjmlp wrote: post #45

Switch 1 still has more games than I have time to play, plenty of them around to get.

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.

I've played BotW on Switch 1 and the Switch 2 upgraded edition. While some scenes are a bit choppy on Switch 1 it's never in the way of gameplay and even on Switch 1 one of the best video games of the last decade.

Of course Switch 2 is faster and the better console (it should be), but if you're focussing on raw performance you're in the wrong crowd.

Even on PS5 you have load times and performance tradeoffs. There will be a time when we're wondering how we put up with the 'impossibly slow' current generation of consoles like we're doing with the 8-bits machines now.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by semiquaver »

someguyiguess wrote: post #140
nsxwolf wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone really find the Switch 2 to be underpowered? Is the Steam Deck really that much more powerful, and is it worth the extra 100 grams of weight? Metroid Prime 4 looks amazing, and you can choose 4K@60 or 1080p@120. I don't really care about generated frames or whatever AI magic the console is doing to pull it off, it looks great.

The steam deck is 4 year old hardware. The Switch 2 came out last summer. So if they're about on-par performance-wise, doesn't that prove OP's point?

Holy goalposts-moving, Batman!

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by someguyiguess »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #133
pjc50 wrote: post #52

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Just because something is heavily in demand doesn't mean it's not fraudulent.

That is true philosophically but not in the case of AI. I use Claude heavily to write code. My mother in law uses it to query legal documents and standards. My wife uses it as a roided up Google. It's here, it's real and it works.

That still does not mean it is not fraudulent.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by ksidcjiwjciwj »

kmfrk wrote: post #75

The Switch 2 also released right in the midst of the tariff mayhem, Nintendo really couldn't catch a break with this generation.

“Catch a break”

Please. It’s fucking Nintendo. It deserves to be fucked over as much as humanly possible.

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