Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.
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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
ysjet@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Series S is $299 here, unless you’re getting used. PS5 digital is hardly apples to oranges, considering the Switch 2 isn’t offering a cartridgeless version.
I also like your arguement about the switch 2 somehow being lesser because it’s going to get scalped, very pointedly ignoring the PS5-shaped scalper elephant in the window. I guess I spoke too soon in the other post- you didn’t manage to delete all examples of cutting Sony and MS a break, you’ve got one right here!
As for the price, sony and microsoft charge $70 for a standard edition game, but also often incomplete and requiring extra money from ‘DLC’ or ‘premium/deluxe’ editions to actually be properly playable/have the baseline plot/lore.