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.
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Everyone pissing themselves over Nintendo not putting the price in the Direct when the reason why was pretty obvious, I thought.
Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.
Wonder if the price of the console and even the cartridge games will change.
I think they necessarily will. I can't imagine retailers eating the lost margin.
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Carts and console could very much change. Some estimates say up to 50% up.
Given that digital games will not this could make the Switch a de facto digital-only thing in the US.
I mean, assuming Trump isn't beaten with a stick into submission in the next couple of weeks. We'll see.
Either way, this situation is pretty damn funny to me. But then I do hate Nintendo for going against emulators and I won't give them another cent ever.
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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
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.
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Did anyone check with reddit to see if THIS story would be allowed to use one of the classic angry face Luigi Mario Kart gifs in response or are they still scared of that one?
Surprised Reddit just hasn't shut down r/Nintendo since Spez and Musk are scared of a 5 letter word.
Did anyone check with reddit
Did anyone check with reddit
Blanket no on that one
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Dammm, the best part is everyone speculated that the price it's at now was to predict and get ahead of tarrif pricing by already setting it higher. The fact that it's not is scary.
I think the $450 USD was just keeping up with inflation.
$300 in March 2017 when the switch originally launched is equivalent to almost $400 today ($392 and some change). S2 is launching at $450, if they were only expecting 15%-ish tariffs then maybe, but it should then be cheaper outside of the US if tariffs were the only reason. Electronic component prices have gone up beyond inflation growth, I think it would be easier to blame it on that.
$80-90 games before tariffs sucks, but games have been $60 for as long as I can remember, and they’re only getting more expensive to make.
I would say it's more that some studios are spending even more to make them, games don't have to cost more to make as you can now make a lot more with a smaller team than you could 20 years ago.
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Nintendo going to suck trump dick so they can get the pricepoint they want.
No they won't. They'll just ship extra units to Canada and Mexico to account for fans going across the border to buy them.
Nintendo should open popup stores for the first year along the US border 😅.
🤣 all those Republican Nintendo fans have to love all this winning. What a bunch of dumbasses.
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This is the kind of creature comfort inconvenience that will tank this administration’s popularity. Americans are fickle and will not accept this kind of disruption to their lives.
More importantly, people who don't pay attention to politics and didn't realize that any of this had any consequences to their lives just suddenly felt it
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