Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.
ysjet@lemmy.world 5 days agoLmao outrageously priced. It’s higher than it was, yes, but I remember the PS3 announcement.
Now THAT was outrageously priced!
$950 for the 60gb model after inflation!
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
ysjet@lemmy.world 5 days ago
… It’s using modern hardware, with specs that are entirely reasonable for being a handheld. The fuck are you expecting, a ps6 that you stick in your pocket for $200?
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
ysjet@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Then what exactly are you expecting? The market for new consoles is currently: Switch 2: $449 Xbox Series S: $299, four years old, less powerful than the switch 2 Xbox Series X: $499, four years old, more expensive, same resolution/fps, more powerful (tflops) than switch 2, 15.7x the size PS5: $499, five years old, more expensive, same resolution, more fps, more powerful than switch 2 but less than series x (tflops), 24x the size
The switch 2 was positioned, and announced, as a portable console capable of similar power levels as one console generation ago, and it overdelivered- the common comparison is that it’s more powerful than a PS4. For a handheld, that is absurdly good, and the price is certainly in line with the rest of the market. The literal only outlier is the Series S, which it’s supposedly more powerful than.