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Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns (www.theverge.com)

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[–] AdityaGavit@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

guess i will stick with this one🥲

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Formatting looks wonky, but the message comes through. Awesome effort. 😀

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

~~$442~~ Wait, new us price (since its built in china, for a Japanese company) is $1000

[–] Gointhefridge@lemm.ee 16 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I see a lot of people ragging on the switch and comparing it to the Steam Deck. I own both but

I’m gonna say this: they’re not even direct competitors. They don’t offer the same experiences at all.

The beauty of the Switch is the ease of use, modularity of control, and communal nature of it. Even if switch online sucks, playing with other switches or 8 people in the same room with certain games is unbelievably easy. The plug and play usability and every single game you can buy from the internal store just works.

Not to mention the dock is flawless and literally easy to use. For all its problems, the switch is a surprisingly well executed idea. There’s a reason they sold hundreds of millions of them.

Steam is catching up, but there’s still a ways to go between proton compatible games, connecting controllers, plugging into a dock without having to bend down and plug a cable etc. The Switch is simply put: easy.

That said, Nintendo is stupid for pricing the Switch 2 out of the “no brainer” casual gamer territory.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

As owner and early adopter of both - disagree.

Switch is gathering dust for me and everytime I pull it out i feel like getting my steamdeck instead.

The only exception I can think off is low profile traveling but that's a very small niche if people.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

you can fix the online problems with a USB-to-ethernet adapter on the dock

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, people are bitching about first party titles never going down in price, meanwhile I'm here enjoying my 300Eur indie machine.

[–] slaveOne@reddthat.com 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I see a lot of people saying they shouldn't be compared, but it still does make sense to do so as most can't afford both.

[–] suite403@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And outside of coop couch, the switch pales in comparison on just about everything else.

Game prices: higher

Feel in hands? Awkward

Removable controllers: pop off or loosen during solo gameplay causing everything to pause in order to fix it, which can, but isn't always, be a quick easy fix.

Plus, games like Animal Crossing that allow coop couch still demand individual switch consoles if you want the full experience for multiple people.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

outside of coop couch

Couch coop is pretty much the only reason we have a Switch. If it was just for me, I wouldn't bother.

As it stands, I have both: Steam Deck for me, Switch for family couch coop.

[–] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 27 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

*in the USA

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 points 6 hours ago

I would never had imagined that in my lifetime I’d see gringos reverse-smuggling game consoles from Mexico. I guess you could smuggle them from Canada too, but Mexico has always smuggled merch from USA. We even have a term for it: “fayuca”.

The lucky ones that live near the border can cross, shop switches 2 at non-orange prices, open them and smuggle the back as personal devices.

[–] MandragoreaeAnimada@chachara.club 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You can tell Americans think their country is the Internet, and the Internet is oriented for Americans.

[–] suite403@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

You're not wrong. But OP just wrote what the title said and the article quickly clarifies its for the US.

[–] turnip@lemm.ee 12 points 17 hours ago

You can still get a Steam Deck and save a ton of games.

[–] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 14 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I delayed my preorder when I saw the bullshit price gouging for game prices.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

The Switch 2 looks like absolute garbage so they can keep it.

My next console purchase with be a Steam Deck.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ask about your use case

You might do better with just a htpc

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And many smart TVs can use the Steam Link app, so you may not need any new hardware at all if you just want to connect your PC to your TV.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 14 hours ago

i have a steam deck and it's awesome but it's silly to think that it looks like garbage. the switch 2 looks pretty awesome.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I'll probably get the Switch 2 eventually, but not for a year or two. I also have a Steam Deck, and they're both great.

I'll be interested to see a comparison between the Steam Deck and Switch 2 since the Switch 2 could have better performance (but probably comparable).

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[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Looks like it has some promising titles but I don't think price wise it can compete with the ryzen based handheld pcs like the steam deck etc. It doesn't make much sense so far as I can tell but I'm still curious what titles it gets and how the battery life compares

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

It's not competing with the Steam Deck though.

The Switch 2 is competing for casual gamers and puts the couch experience first. That's why detachable controllers are such a big deal, and why graphics quality never was a major concern.

The Steam Deck is targeting the PC gamer crowd who pretty much never play on the couch or local multiplayer. It's far more important to be ergonomic to hold, have greater compatibility with PC games, and give the user more control (tinker with settings and mods).

They're two very different products targeting two very different groups of people. I own both, and the Switch is mostly for family time while the Steam Deck is for me time. I wouldn't buy a Switch if I was single, and I wouldn't buy a Steam Deck if the goal was party games. They're very different products.

[–] HarryOru@lemm.ee 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No OLED screen at that price point was the deal-breaker for me.

[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 5 points 18 hours ago

Yeah I get that it's obvious they are going to introduce an oled later. Very predictable imo and yeah if I ever buy one it's going to be oled as well.

But yeah I'm at least waiting to see if the battery life is decent and what other titles it gets beforehand, right now I feel it has potential But at this moment in time I'd rather have a pc based handheld.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah, bullshit. They're just using tariffs to further increase the price.

100 bucks cheaper in Japan than any other region? 90 dollar games that never go on sale?

Get bent, Nintendo, I'll stick to the steam deck and wait for emulation.

[–] Bristingr@lemm.ee 10 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Someone doesn't understand the full story. The Yen is weak. Super weak when compared to the US dollar. Hence the price difference for their country.

Additionally, those special consoles will be soft region locked. Only JP accounts can be added to them and will display Japanese only if the game supports that language.

Games never go on sale, what are you on about? We see Nintendo games go on sale frequently. Sorry they're not the $5 dumpster trash that EA/Ubisoft shits out every year with their latest madden or CoD/Just Dance games riddled with bugs.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The Nordic prices are ridiculous though. It's the equivalent of adding ~200 euro to the regular European price. I bet lots of people here are going to import from other EU countries

[–] alehel@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Power in Norway have said pre-orders have been "fantastisk bra". So doesn't seem the price bothers us.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 16 hours ago

Norway is richer on average though. Let's see how sales go after the initial introduction

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

They should absolutely be selling their NES games for $5 or less instead of the original prices innthe 90s lol

Quit sucking corporate cock

Snap out of it fanboy

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

Tariffs causing price increase would be good for me politically

[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 201 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Are we tired of winning yet America ?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Unfortunately, we'll probably keep winning for at least the next few months, it looks like the party is just getting started.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 81 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

This is a rare case where a piece of consumer electronics is going to be quite a bit cheaper in Australia compared to the USA! Usually stuff costs more in Australia.

The Switch is currently US$450 and will probably go up with tariffs. Meanwhile, it's listed as AU$700 in Australia, which is AU$630 before tax (all advertised prices include tax), which is US$385.

I imagine this is going to happen for a lot of devices. I'm an Aussie living in the USA and I never thought I'd see the day when buying stuff in Australia would be cheaper. Australia has better consumer protection too, around things like repairs/refunds due to major issues even outside the warranty period.

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