I am hoping this leads to a similar situation the 3DS put them in and they are forced to lower their prices, but I'm not holding my breath. I imagine most parents would rather just hand their kids a tablet than shell out a grand+ to keep them entertained
Yep $700 for the console with Mario Kart at least controllers and joy cons also work on the switch 2. Then $100 Cad for games.
I don't even mind paying $700 for the console. It's paying $100-$120 per title that really bothers me.
I think you'd be surprised. It's not like gamers don't already pay stupid amounts of money for a lot of games. Those Day 1 "ultimate editions" go for about that. Not to mention the money people will spend on microtransactions on top of the retail price. You got scores of people out there spending thousands of dollars on one sports game or one online shooter.
And unlike the other two companies, Nintendo rarely offers deep discounts on anything. They got 10 year old indie games going for like $19.99 at all times, when you can get them for two or three bucks on the other consoles in any given month. Then you've got older 8th gen games getting frankenstein'd onto the technically handicapped Switch, that play like shit and retail at full price, when you could just get the better version on the other consoles for $10-$20.
At the moment, this is actually what I am most curious about. Is it actually going to be smooth and accurate, or just a silly gimmick?
It is a silver lining for the master race. *shrug*The shittier the hardware the easier to emulate though.
I should add the disclaimer the specifications I shared aren't officially confirmed as the chipset and the RAM were the only specs not disclosed. But everything else was consistent with the leaks. I'm assuming they delayed officially releasing them because they know how unimpressive they are. They didn't want "5 year old hardware on the day of release" to be a potential headline. This deprives journalists of that.
This is what Jeff was saying. And it’s very Nintendo.
Sidebar here but this Kanye GIF is hilarious to me. Never seen before. Genuine happiness to genuine disgust without a moment of intervening emotion. Hardcore.I was really excited about the features I was seeing, then there was that From Soft game, Pavlovian drool.
It looked like a sci-fi Bloodborne, with PS4 fidelity, which I'm fine with, so long as it was a return to their smaller/metroidvania-like layout.
A Nintendo console with 4k, HDR, 120 FPS at 1080p, 60 FPS at 4K, and an improved/larger screen, being 1080p also with HDR support... My lord.
Then there was a the price of the system and titles. Learning that the Fromsoft game was another MP offering...
I'm sure the console will come down in price, but the standard they are trying to set with game prices is bullshit.
This isn’t on Nintendo this time. These tariffs are retarded. Vietnam is working out something so maybe the price will stick to 450 but this never should have happened. Criticize the software prices all you want because they deserve that but if the hardware does go up to 600 then America is to blame. Sucks saying that but it’s true.
