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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 ge96 »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #152
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…

By "a nail in the coffin", do you mean that people will stop buying Switches? Because I would be very surprised by that. It's not like most people even know what a Steam Deck is. At the moment at least, the two devices mostly don't compete for the same audience. And if you want to play Nintendo's games - which a lot of people do, they're usually quite good - you don't have much choice anyway.

Breath of the Wild when that came out only reason I would have bought a Switch. But apparently if you own it can run it through QEMU on PC.

I have neither devices right now, only a PC.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by usefulcat »

moron4hire wrote: post #61
Jolter wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’ll notice they raised prices in Japan by A Lot, but the US price is only up $50.

Uuuuuuh, ¥10,000 is currently about $64, so it's not that much different to be calling it "a lot".

The price is increasing by 20% in Japan and 11% in the US, so the price increase in Japan is nearly double the increase in the US.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by willis936 »

GorbachevyChase wrote: post #186
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…

Adults aren’t the target market. I pay a premium because I know there are content standards and at least the big titles aren’t going to bombard my kids with inappropriate content.

But also most parents will scoff at the prices and tell them to pick cheaper toys.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by uejfiweun »

InsideOutSanta wrote: post #152
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…

By "a nail in the coffin", do you mean that people will stop buying Switches? Because I would be very surprised by that. It's not like most people even know what a Steam Deck is. At the moment at least, the two devices mostly don't compete for the same audience. And if you want to play Nintendo's games - which a lot of people do, they're usually quite good - you don't have much choice anyway.

Yes, Nintendo is essentially the futuristic version of Disney. And families will continue to pay a premium in exchange for a curated experience that you know will be OK for your child.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by prism56 »

moron4hire wrote: post #89
prism56 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait what. Wonder is incredible...

I genuinely hate it. I think it controls like shit. It feels like the Megaman 8 of the Mario series.

I thought the controls were a massive improvement compared to the New Super Mario Bros games. So much tighter, like the older Mario platformers.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by Analemma_ »

willis936 wrote: post #193
GorbachevyChase wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adults aren’t the target market. I pay a premium because I know there are content standards and at least the big titles aren’t going to bombard my kids with inappropriate content.

But also most parents will scoff at the prices and tell them to pick cheaper toys.

That hasn’t been happening since the beginning of video games and it isn’t about to start now. Adjusted for inflation the NES was about $590 at launch and individual games were $90-120. Didn’t stop it from nearly wiping the American video game industry clean off the earth.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by BoxedEmpathy »

merpkz wrote: post #48
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

What a wild statement, how much you have to eat in Japan to offset the airline ticket prices?

About a month for me

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by dragontamer »

nsxwolf wrote: post #164
dragontamer wrote: post #160

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> 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 v…

4k is a technical spec. It's the same as lying about the horsepower of your car.

Nintendo (and NVidia) are playing games with specs. And it's incredibly off-putting to me.

Lying about small things means the company will lie about large things. This sort of thing erodes trust, especially because 4k is so easy to test and figure out.

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There are other words for better than 1080p. Such as 1440p or 2k. Which is closer to what the new Metroid game actually does.

Re: Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

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Post by scblock »

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…

"The vast majority of the screen is upscaled."

I have bad news for you, friend. You just described AAA gaming on anything less than a 5090 (and not even then, at all times). Without DLSS or FSR many modern games won't run smoothly at 4k on typical hardware (such as a 5070, which costs more than a Switch 2, or a 5060, which costs about the same).

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