Thread: Nintendo Switch 2 launches June 5 for $449 (Update: Pre-orders begin April 24 in the U.S. and Canada)
Nintendo confirmed no Hall effect joysticks, supposedly best for anti drift. Nintendo said they rebuilt the sticks from the ground up and claims they should not drift!!

Nintendo has been manufacturing controllers for how long? If they say they fixed the drift issue. I'm going to wait and see.

Good. Last Joy-Cons were worthless. Easily the worst controller ever made in video game history
 
I'm curious if we will get an increased sale price on Nintendo published titles. The lowest they go I think is 40 or 45 dollars for switch. So it's either wait for it to go on sale for that magic number, or buy it at launch.

If physical it'll depends on the size of carts used. 16, 32 and 64GB carts. Mario Kart World ($80) is using 24GB using the 32GB cart. TotK($80) is over 18GB. Cyberpunk($70) is on the 64GB cart but Nintendo is subsidizing to help publish physical like they did with Witcher 3.

Street Fighter 6 is over 60GB and likely over the 64GB cart which won't fit on the cart.

The new Game Carts is faster and seems to be more expensive. Not sure how expense 64GB carts are.

There's a possibility there's going to be a lot of AAA 3rd party games release of Game Key Cards. 🤷‍♂️
 
Listened to kit and Krista former Nintendo pr today and they say Nintendo botched the messaging. Especially the price release.
 
Oh, new Joycons has tech similar to Hall Effects! This is nothing new then. Nintendo isn't going to pay royalties if they don't have to. They will build their own.

Nintendo really said "Hall effect? Psssh no this is Wall effect it's even better."
 
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Listened to kit and Krista former Nintendo pr today and they say Nintendo botched the messaging. Especially the price release.

Yea you don't have to be a PR executive to realize this release was screwed. I think they got rid of a field general like Reggie and replaced him with a soldier with Bowser. Nintendo of Japan needs to be saved from itself. They don't know how to communicate out of Japan (and might not know how to communicate in Japan either)
 
I'm curious if we will get an increased sale price on Nintendo published titles. The lowest they go I think is 40 or 45 dollars for switch. So it's either wait for it to go on sale for that magic number, or buy it at launch.

I was thinking the same thing today. I doubt it, but it would be nice. I'm holding off on the system anyway so by the time I potentially buy one, we'll know what the sale situation is. I'm pretty sure TotK is $70 but goes on sale for $40 like the other games.
 
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Let's not kid ourselves. We all know this is going to be a shit fest for two years.

I hope not but you never know. I'm kinda hoping that this won't be since it's the first real launch post-Covid. I am encouraged that there will be midnight launches nationwide which is awesome seeing as scalpers can't game the system if you actually have to show up and wait in a line. But yeah if it catches fire (and I think it will) it might be hard for Nintendo to keep up. I am encouraged by Nintendo's strict requirements for preorders online -- don't think any bots will be getting past that.
 
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I hope not but you never know. I'm kinda hoping that this won't be since it's the first real launch post-Covid. I am encouraged that there will be midnight launches nationwide which is awesome seeing as scalpers can't game the system if you actually have to show up and wait in a line. But yeah if it catches fire (and I think it will) it might be hard for Nintendo to keep up. I am encouraged by Nintendo's strict requirements for preorders online -- don't think any bots will be getting past that.

The problem will be from parties selling Switches that aren't Nintendo. They don't care and will happily sell their entire stock to bots by scalpers.

We really need regulations to stop this. Bot scalping is also destroying the ticket industry. Who knows if it will ever stop because nothing gets done until big business suffers and this is only affecting the consumer.
 
Yea you don't have to be a PR executive to realize this release was screwed. I think they got rid of a field general like Reggie and replaced him with a soldier with Bowser. Nintendo of Japan needs to be saved from itself. They don't know how to communicate out of Japan (and might not know how to communicate in Japan either)

Reggie has been lit up on social media sharing his Wii sports story. Trying to hint about issues. Making bowsers job harder. Listen to the king of Bigfoot pizza.
 
The problem will be from parties selling Switches that aren't Nintendo. They don't care and will happily sell their entire stock to bots by scalpers.

We really need regulations to stop this. Bot scalping is also destroying the ticket industry. Who knows if it will ever stop because nothing gets done until big business suffers and this is only affecting the consumer.

Nintendo can exert tremendous pressure on those retailers by threatening to give them diminished numbers of units and software both now and in the future. Believe me, if Nintendo wants to make these retailers do this a particular way, they can do it. It was one thing when everyone was up each other's asshole during Covid, but that shit's over. There isn't a good damn reason in the world why these places can't do in person sales only, or at least the majority. Amazon already hates Nintendo anyway and holds back sales from launches, so they don't have to worry about them.
 
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Pre-Orders have to be at least before may 8th when Nintendo starts batching out their invites right? I'm curious to see if the pro controllers go up in price. I think those are made in china still.
 
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Pre-Orders have to be at least before may 8th when Nintendo starts batching out their invites right? I'm curious to see if the pro controllers go up in price. I think those are made in china still.

They will want to give retailers as much time as possible. I would guess May 8th a the latest, but earlier for retail stores if they can.
 
Sounds like Trump's exempting some electronics, so between the delay and the exemption, Nintendo should have time to bolster its U.S. inventories at a more reasonable input cost basis.

CNBC article:

"Smartphones and computers are among many tech devices and components that will be exempted from reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, according to new guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The guidance, issued late Friday evening, comes after Trump earlier this month imposed 145% tariffs on products from China, a move that threatened to take a toll on tech giants like Apple, which makes iPhones and most of its other products in China.

The new tariff guidance also includes exclusions for other electronics, including laptops, semiconductors, solar cells, flat panel TV displays, flash drives, memory cards and solid-state drives used for storing data."
 
Time to rebrand the Switch as a family computer system ;)
Super!

Edit: Yeah, it appears that game consoles are not considered computers (or phones!), but perhaps some chips and/or other inputs may still benefit. Who knows, the shit changes daily...
 
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So we get Mario Kart as the launch bundle, why are people complaining that Welcome Tour is not a pack in?

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So we get Mario Kart as the launch bundle, why are people complaining that Welcome Tour is not a pack in?

There is a bundle and a standalone. You're paying $50 extra for Mario Kart. It's not a free bundled item.

But that's better than $80 for it. I don't like digital, but I will definitely be saving $30 with the bundle.
 
So we get Mario Kart as the launch bundle, why are people complaining that Welcome Tour is not a pack in?

Anyone who goes beyond "that's dumb, won't be buying that" about the welcome tour being $10 is probably complaining in bad faith.

It's deserving of criticism, but is by no means an injustice.

There is a lot to be critical of with this release. Basically everything other than the hardware has been botched.
 
I would pre-order except the US is likely delayed and I don't do NSO.

I'll see about the Mario World bundle but my top prioritized game will be Bravely Default Flying Fairy Remaster, though going by other remastered JRPGs it's likely getting a multiplatform release.

Digital having Physical codes?! addresses one of my main concerns.
 
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Nintendo's big mistake with the Switch 2 is this:

They are trying to integrate customers deeper with online, download, temporary ownership of games. They want you connected, they want you subscribing. My concern is that physical collectors will suffer further, not able to own a "full" game on the cartridge/disc.
 
Nintendo's big mistake with the Switch 2 is this:

They are trying to integrate customers deeper with online, download, temporary ownership of games. They want you connected, they want you subscribing. My concern is that physical collectors will suffer further, not able to own a "full" game on the cartridge/disc.

Gamers deserve what they're getting. Switch 1 games were already around 50% digital and Sony is around 80%. PC obviously is at 100%. It's like with paid online, if people rejected it then it wouldn't exist.
 
Gamers deserve what they're getting. Switch 1 games were already around 50% digital and Sony is around 80%. PC obviously is at 100%. It's like with paid online, if people rejected it then it wouldn't exist.

Switch was a handheld selling handheld tier games at console prices.

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Therefore it should be no surprise that Switch 2 is selling PS4 games at PS5 prices.
 
Nintendo should have an interest in keeping physical alive and even promoting it over digital. Reason being buying a physical game helps with emotional attachment to the brand.

If they ever go all digital or even gimp physical with required downloads for their games it will be a big mistake. I believe they understand this at least enough to never get rid of physical options.

It would be a mistake for Sony as well but not to the same degree because Nintendo is gaming Disney. Disney in past tense 😅
 
If they ever go all digital or even gimp physical with required downloads for their games it will be a big mistake. I believe they understand this at least enough to never get rid of physical options.

Physical is increasingly pointless from an ownership standpoint, but I suspect they know its value. They didn't come out with a cartridgeless variant of the Switch 2, after all. Yet.
 
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Physical is increasingly pointless from an ownership standpoint, but I suspect they know its value. They didn't come out with a cartridgeless variant of the Switch 2, after all. Yet.
I have 50+ switch games on game card and none of them are missing parts of the game and require download.

Of course I know that's not always the case and in those cases I simply don't purchase.

If you haven't noticed they generally aren't following Sony and MS examples..
 
I have 50+ switch games on game card and none of them are missing parts of the game and require download.

I did say ''increasingly'. It's not always the case, but as time goes on even with Nintendo, more and more games will either not be playable without a download of some kind, or will ship in a flawed state that requires patching.

And then there's games like No Man's Sky where you'd have to re-release a new cartridge every couple of months. :p