Submitted 1 day ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
The Switch 2 will hit store shelves on June 5 for $449.99.
Mario Kart World will cost $80, an increase from $60, which is what Nintendo charged for Switch games.
Um… Wow.
With these prices, they better have one hell of a line up besides a Mario Kart that looks about the same and Street Fighter 6.
I’m very interested on how powerful this thing is if it’s price is going to be higher than the LCD Steam Deck and $100 less than the OLED model.
as a Canadian I’m used to everything being expensive as fuck, but I have to draw the line somewhere. this is why piracy exists. I’ll probably break down and buy one at the next major Zelda title launch, because I don’t get a choice in that. my heart wants what it wants, and I’m getting too old to say no at this point.
Everyone should just move to piracy anyways.
Products cost what we’re willing to pay, not what they cost to produce.
The fact so many people are willing to pay for things they can get for free (while complaining they don’t have enough money) is just another reason why things are the way they are. We’ve been conditioned to be proud of our consumerism at any cost.
If you just want Zelda, a singleplayer game with no expiry / pressure to play while others are playing, you could consider waiting for emulation to catch up. I’m currently enjoying a bunch of singleplayer Switch games on my PC.
I’m very interested on how powerful this thing is if it’s price is going to be higher than the LCD Steam Deck
From a purely hardware standpoint, the Steam Deck LCD panel is awful, 800p/60Hz with no VRR. Switch 2 is 1080p/120Hz w/ VRR. We don’t know much about the Switch processor but surely it is at least comparable to the original SD one with those sort of screen specs.
Steam Deck has to be sold at cost at the lowest, mostly because it’s just a PC and can be (and has been) used for a myriad of things that don’t involve Steam. Nintendo could sell these things at a huge loss and still make money hand over fist because they can’t do anything but play Switch games.
Fun fact, if you adjust for inflation, this machine is only $52 more than the original switch was at launch.
This is basically the originally pricing, adjusted for inflation + Trump’s 20% Chinese manufacturing tariff.
If that’s the case it should be 20% cheaper in other markets where the tariff doesn’t exist. Want to take bets?
It’s also basically the same console with minor upgrades.
It’s also at around the same price point in Japan and Europe. I don’t think the tarriffs had n effect on the price.
Good point about inflation.
I’m really curious on how powerful the Switch 2 will be in comparison to the handhelds in the market now.
Yeah I distinctly remember N64 games being $60 in the late 90s. We saved a lot with digital downloads vs retail over the years but it is funny that games have largely been level in price for 30 years at this point.
$60 was a lot considering PS1 and Dreamcast games were in the $50 range.
According to an online inflation calculator, from 1996 inflation rose 103.4%. So if game prices followed inflation, $50-$60 games should be $100-$120.
If you just want the tech specs and don’t want to read a full article, Nintendo has published a spec sheet.
I’m curious to see what the “Custom processor made by NVIDIA” is, partially to see what the Switch 2 is capable of, but also to see what Nvidia might put in other devices. (Can I hope for a Shield refresh?)
I bet counting on Nvidia is going to fuck them.
AMD still makes shitty GPUs for an egregious price.
They essentially use Nvidia’s scumbaggery as an excuse to be “slightly less scumbags.”
Their GPU division never had a “Ryzen” moment, and it doesn’t look like they ever will.
They just don’t care.
The people on the chat game trailer looks like they all work on human resources
Looks like we’re seeing the impact of inflation + tariffs.
The OG Switch was $300 in 2017. This console would be about $350 if you adjusted for inflation.
Will this have stick drift? Seems like they skipped hall effect sticks
Duck Dintendo I’m not ever allowing Dintendo games purchased from my pocket anymore. Do whatever the heck they do.
FoD@startrek.website 10 hours ago
A lot of valid reasons for the price to be high but that’s still a lot of money. $80 for a game hurts. It went from a must buy early this year when I heard about it to ehh… Maybe I’ll see what happens first.
lumony@lemmings.world 1 hour ago
I haven’t bought a game in years. I don’t own a switch, but I get to play the games for it I want.
At some point, I realized “supporting the devs” was just rhetoric for useful idiots. Most of the money goes to their landlords and delivery apps, anyways.
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, people. Don’t let consumers on the internet convince you to spend money on things you could be getting for free.
Use your brains before your wallets.
Billythegoat@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s not gonna get cheaper and they probably incorporated tariffs.