Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025
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Figured it’d be nice to have a spot to talk about this. Link is to the upcoming direct on their channel.

People can also post articles after the fact, I don’t think our community is so active that I worry about clogging the feed. But we’ll see. I’m excited!

  • _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de
    13·
    10 hours ago

    Quite disappointed with how they are now going for $90 (physical, $80 digital for MKW) games, the upgraded versions are paid DLCs and even the tech demo is a digital purchase.

    The console looks good, and $450 seems fine for it, but everything else looks overpriced and that has kinda killed my interest.

    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
      5·
      7 hours ago

      I am very curious how they’re going to tackle regional pricing on games. $80 USD converts to $115 Canadian. No other console is pricing their games that way. At least not yet (thanks nintendo) But that would be a $25-35 increase compared to Ps5 and Xbox games.

      For being a family console, it seems like a very weird decision when we’ve been hit with such bad inflation and wage stagnation in the past 5 years. I cannot see as families springing for a switch 2 as they did for the switch 1.

      I am seriously considering waiting until a must have title comes out at this point because the price to value just isn’t checking out at the moment. It seems odd. The only thing I can think of is that Nintendo has to have some very good games cooking for the future because this immediate presentation was…underwhelming?

      Edit: Thinking about it more, if they did price their games that way, I think it would completely price me out of new games all together. I would have to absolutely know 100% that I’m going to love a game and play it for a very long time to justify that kind of price. Very few games do that for me. I feel like that kind of price increase would encourage illegal downloads too. Especially for countries with weaker currencies

    • Chloyster [she/her]@beehaw.orgOPM
      7·
      10 hours ago

      Yeah the pricing is wild. The console is a fine price, and I don’t mind the paid upgrades that add content. Other games are getting free upgrades they confirmed later.

      But charging for the welcome tour is madness. And $80 digital for Mario kart is insane. At least dk is $70 digital so like I hope most games aren’t $80 but Jesus. And like $70 is a lot too don’t get me wrong but that’s what it’s been the past couple years so I’m not surprised at that number

      • _Lory98_@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        9 hours ago

        The +$10 for physical games also worries me they might be trying to push more people to digital games only. But also there seems to be the new “game key” cards which might be an improvement over codes, if they are not tied to accounts.

        Also yea, I am still not used to $70 for games and even that seems too much.

  • lennee@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    14 hours ago

    I was about to buy a steamdeck instead of the switch 2 tbh but mofos rlly had to whip out a fromsoft exclusive. Fuck.