Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns
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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
No OLED screen at that price point was the deal-breaker for me.
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No OLED screen at that price point was the deal-breaker for me.
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.
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It's all right I wouldn't say it's groundbreaking. There are many portable computers including the steam deck that are far superior in terms of capability and openness.
Doesn't think switch is groundbreaking. Proceeds to list handheld that wouldn't exist without the Switch breaking that ground. lol
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The Switch 2 looks like absolute garbage so they can keep it.
My next console purchase with be a Steam Deck.
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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.
Cartridge games for the Switch 2 aren't even cartridge games anymore, haven't you heard? There's no game on the cartridges just a passkey.
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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
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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.
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Cartridge games for the Switch 2 aren't even cartridge games anymore, haven't you heard? There's no game on the cartridges just a passkey.
Yeah that's a big no from me my last handheld console was the Vita and I felt even that was overpriced for games that were actually on the cartridge.
If everything is actually digital I'm simply not buying Sony killed my account with them because I didn't login within 6 months and I'd actually bought games there so screw digital
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Regardless of price, Nintendo is a shit legacy company that is riding on the coattails of the 90's.
They never have games on steep discounts like their competitors, ensure emulations and artistic expressions are shut down immediately, and barely change shit to their flagship games such as Pokemon. They're creatively stale and are blessed to have a rabid fan base who can't see through it.
I got a switch since my kid brought grades home, but that's the last piece of electronic device I'll ever buy from Nintendo. This is someone who has played back in its heyday the N64.
People who 'boycott' and go back to buying what they boycotted because said company pushed out a halfass apology tweet deserve to lose their money.
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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.
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
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I really wonder how big that demographic is. My impression is that most Republicans would be culturally turned off by Nintendo’s brand.
Don't ever tell them about that one quest in BOTW
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*in the USA
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Power in Norway have said pre-orders have been "fantastisk bra". So doesn't seem the price bothers us.
Norway is richer on average though. Let's see how sales go after the initial introduction
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Doesn't think switch is groundbreaking. Proceeds to list handheld that wouldn't exist without the Switch breaking that ground. lol
You're going to need some evidence that that's the case because my understanding is that Valve had been working on the steam deck for a while.
Hell the steam deck isn't even the first handheld gaming computer, and the switch came out after the first handhelds, so even if Valve were influenced by the existence of the switch (which they weren't), we would have still got the steam deck via other mechanisms.
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The Switch 2 looks like absolute garbage so they can keep it.
My next console purchase with be a Steam Deck.
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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*in the USA
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Physical copies if they are made outside the US, digital no iirc
Ahh so software can cross borders for free. Then presumably they can just rent a shed somewhere to write data to what ever storage media they use these days.
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a lot of savings
Savings for who? If nothing is changed and manufacturers (and retailers) doesn’t make any kind of commercial gesture, the only ones paying more are the American consumers.
So moving the manufacture would be a saving for every Joe and Jane in the US, not Nintendo nor the ROTW.
Not moving the manufacture might be a loss of % in their US consumer base as prices will be too high there, but is it big enough to justify the enormous costs needed to move an entire industry workflow?
I don’t think so, specially when there is so many instability in the US politic, if you move to an other country at great cost and 2 weeks later a new tariff is declared (because why not), you moved everything for no reason but still lost your investment.
My belief is that no industry nor country will adapt, they will just increase the US market prices and keep on living like before with the ROTW. The only ones to suffer will be the American citizens and I’m sorry for them, but there is an all planet to trade with.
If you have a product that cost 500 with a markup of 50, but tariffs are pushing it to 750, it could easily be worth spending 50 to reduce tariffs to 650 and sell it at 700. You make just as much profit on each unit and you reduce the per unit cost which likely means more sales.
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The Switch 2 looks like absolute garbage so they can keep it.
My next console purchase with be a Steam Deck.
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.
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