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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 nsxwolf »

pjmlp wrote: post #98
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 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.

I grew up in the same era, but I never stopped playing video games, so my relationship with them continuously evolved.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by staticman2 »

__s wrote: post #151
JeremyNT wrote: post #139

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> Does Nintendo intentionally make its hardware really underpowered and cheap in terms of chips to juice profits? In the past this was stronger but with the Switch 2 the hardware bill of materials is actually more costly relative to previous products like the Switch 1. They know that the combination of extremely high quality first party exclusives combined with hugely popular IP is going to move units even if they're…

You can run Ship of Harkinian on steamdeck Twilight Princess soon

Most people probably want to get a game and play it without figuring out how to navigate pirate web sites.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by juancn »

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 is almost on a different market than Steam, XBox, and all the others.

I don't think it will matter much. They live off the exclusives.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by nsxwolf »

dragontamer wrote: post #160
nsxwolf wrote: post #137

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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.

> 4K@60 Parts of Samus's gun and some parts of the UI are 4k. I'm a Nintendo fan but this 4k@60 claim from Nintendo is incredibly laughable. The vast majority of the screen is upscaled. I think there were a bunch of 4k Hatsune Miku games that came out. It turns out that 2D renderings at 4k can be accomplished with very low end hardware. The game looks good because Nintendo has excellent artists. So I guess it's worth…

4K mode looks better to me than 1080p on my TV, I'm not Digital Foundry so I don't know how to count pixels or whatever. I would imagine most people don't care much and can't see the difference from where they are sitting in the room anyway.

It more than gets the job done, the job I hired it to do is make the games impress me visually and allow me to experience the thrill of technological progress, and it does that very well.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by ageitgey »

iso1631 wrote: post #105
ageitgey wrote: post #81

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Right, it started dropping when the current administration was inaugurated, directly because of the party's promise to enact immediate tariffs. And it continued to drop sharply leading up to and through the tariff announcement. I'm not trying to say anything spicy here. You can argue whether a strong currency is good or bad. But it would be silly not to acknowledge the cause. It was one of the largest global financia…

Trying to square that with your statement > The dollar's global value has also weakened noticeably since (checks notes) April 2, 2025

Sorry if I wasn't as specific as possible:

> The dollar's global value has also weakened noticeably since (checks notes) the global financial world reordering that happened in early 2025, which in finance circles is often referred to collectively by the shorthand 'Liberation Day', i.e. April 2nd, 2025, during which the US currency became significantly weaker relative to other major currencies, a situation which persists until the present moment

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by acid-rocker »

tejohnso wrote: post #131
darkxanthos wrote: post #109

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If someone has a switch, gifting a steam deck isn't an upgrade necessarily. You're giving them a platform that can't play most of the games they probably love. Not because of specs of course. A switch 2 is actually an upgrade. Almost all of their current games will run better and they'll be able to play more demanding switch 2 only games as they continue to trickle out.

I should have mentioned current game play is skewed more toward steam on pc than switch. I'm definitely not getting the impression that the switch games are loved.

I have a Switch 1 and would love to get a Steam Deck in the near future. If there is ever a new mainline Mario 3D game I might consider getting the Switch 2 but for now there is no reason for me to get it. I rather want to play my Indie games Steam collection but on the couch.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by afavour »

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…

Maybe I'm in a bubble but I really don't see the Steam Deck and Switch as big competitors for each other. I mean, yes, they're both portable games consoles, but I'd bet a large percentage of Switch gamers don't even know what a Steam Deck is.

There's a reason Nintendo targets and wins with very casual gamers. It would take a lot more than a $50 price increase to be the 'nail in the coffin' for the Switch.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by epicide »

mghackerlady wrote: post #104
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...

is the lite still 200? because if not they're shooting themselves in the foot

They don't list price changes for the Lite outside of Japan, but I'm sure it's coming too.

The Japanese Switch 2 is going up by 20%. The US model is going up by about 10%.

In Japan, the Lite is going up by over 35%. If we assume a similar pattern (US going up by about half as much as in Japan), then that'd take the $230 Lite to more like $270.

I still like my Switch Lite, but almost $300 after tax for it would be absurd.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by nielsbot »

nothercastle wrote: post #158
hectdev wrote: post #124

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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.

Profits must be maintained at all costs

it’s a business, not a charity
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