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Vinny said:
I can't tell if the general consensus on the NS2 so far is good, bad or potato... :unsure:
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Well if it follows their trend of good one, bad one for the last two decades then they're coming due.

Honestly, they're going to have a rough go no matter what because of pricing and their horrible messaging. Looking back at the original Switch announcement, it's night and day with the confidence of how they were positioned and willingness to be forthcoming. They didn't dance around the price back then and things were much more clear, with pricing being the expectation of lower than competition. Now they want parity but aren't even close in terms of the competition. That's not going to fool anyone and I think the backlash (remember 3DS?) won't be ignored.

Tariffs wouldn't even be a consideration for launch, but if they don't cement the price they would need to raise it to a few months down the road then it would be even worse after early adopters got to pay far less. People would still ask the question why am I paying more now? A question that should have been answered back in November quite frankly.
 

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The inflation justifying the price increases already happened before tariffs, but you're naive if you think Nintendo didn't consider a coming trade war in their strategy for the coming months and the launch of their new system. This is the kind of stuff that companies sink or swim over, like every other dramatic change in market conditions.

Ironically Nintendo DIDN'T raise prices when inflation was going nuts over corporations getting hella greedy after the idea of people getting a paltry $1600 or whatever the hell it was one time payment during the covid pandemic gave them a money hungry chubby, when a sad number of people probably dumped that entire check into video games.
 
I'm curious if Nintendo knows what Rockstar / Take-Two plans to charge for GTA VI and if that would be an inflation related adjustment to game pricing. Nintendo adjusts their pricing standard but Rockstar doesn't go public with their plans before Nintendo.
 
Rockstar should go public with more than one entry every decade and a half

You don't need to render that hooker's 4K titty for so long dude I get your working conditions suck but come on

Space Station Silicon Valley 2 when? Astro Bot was a hit!
 
Bryson said:
Mario Kart is their best selling franchise. It's pretty obvious they are going to use it to push console sales. Mario Kart is also the only 1st party game ready to go at launch. Apparently Donkey Kong, Kirby and Metroid are all coming later.



I fully expect Nintendo's first batch of consoles to sell out. It's after the initial sales that will paint the real picture.

I honestly couldn't envision a more nightmare scenario for Nintendo fans. They've just been priced out of their favorite console. Nintendo have always been the cheapest out of the big 3, but not anymore. It's not uncommon for people to buy multiple switches. I couldn't imagine this Christmas a family needing to buy multiple switches for their kids, games, joy cons, subscription services. You're easily looking into the thousands of dollars. Good luck with that!

At least when Playstation raised prices on their games it could at least be justified because they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on their 1st party games. When Xbox sells their Series X for $500, it's because it's the most "powerful" console on the market. Nintendo raised prices just out of pure Greed. Their games cost on average $30 million to make and their console uses outdated tech. In comparison, Red Dead Redemption 2 had a massive budget of $540 million dollars and Rockstar still only charge $60 for the game.

People blaming the increase in price on tarrifs are just fear mongering and have absolutely no idea how tarrifs work because cognitive dissonance won't allow them to fathom that they've just been betrayed in favor of pure corporate greed. If tarrifs was truly the reason for the price increase then riddle me this, why is the price so high in EVERY single other country outside of the US? We know that Nintendo likes to make a profit on their consoles as well as their games, so if they can afford to sell the Switch 2 in Japan for $330us and still make a profit then that tells you everything you need to know about how much you're being price gouged. I never thought Nintendo would be the one to crash the video game industry but here we are!
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Isn't pokemon their best seller? Granted mariokart probably makes more dough via dlc than pokemon possibly.
 
Nintendo doesn't pay the tariffs. Japan (or any other country) doesn't pay the tariffs. Businesses importing said items from various locations overseas pay the tariffs. What remains to be seen is how those costs will be passed on downstream. Retailers could decide to pass along 100% of the added tariff cost to consumers. Or they could absorb some of that cost. Or they could try negotiating for better prices from the companies producing products overseas. Perhaps a mix of all three. More often than not, costs from tariffs are passed along to consumers. Which is why some are calling it a tax by another name.

Nintendo pricing their consoles at $450 and $500 and their games at $80 has nothing to do with potential tariffs. The added cost from said tariffs haven't even been tagged to those announced prices yet. From what I understand, what product that is already produced and stockpiled stateside isn't subject to the tariffs. And from what I've read elsewhere, it's thought Nintendo might have a million or so units along those lines. But given that original sales forecasts were Nintendo selling 12-15 million consoles in their first year, running through that first million and having the possibility of tariffs driving prices upward puts them in an awkward position.

They're probably delaying preorders hoping that the situation will resolve itself in the next few weeks (i.e. Trump claims a deal has been reached and lowers/drops said tariffs; or somehow Nintendo successfully petitions for some sort of exception). But if this ends up being a protracted event (via trade war), who knows what happens. That's why Wall Street is crapping the bed right now. Companies and markets hate uncertainty. And pretty soon, consumers will too.
 
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shadowysea07 said:
Isn't pokemon their best seller? Granted mariokart probably makes more dough via dlc than pokemon possibly.
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No, Mario Kart 8 sold 67 million copies, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sold 26 million copies. Mario Kart is an absolute behemoth of a franchise.

The Mario Odyssey team is working on Donkey Kong and they released TOTK not that long ago so doesn't look like there will be a 3d Mario or Zelda any time soon.

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Mario Kart seems the perfect test case, if consumers react terribly later this year they can offer a DLC pack or two or season pass or whatever the hell that shit is called lately to the early suckers adopters
 
I keep the seeing the inflation argument as a justification for but I don't know if that makes any sense. There's more to game prices than inflation.. actual production costs of games, the cost of the medium (which is what I think is a big driver since it seems like NS2 has much faster carts), economies of scale, corporate profits, etc. all play into it. I remember SNES games being anywhere from $70-90, and then N64 games being $60-$80... but then as the PS1 took control, game prices went down to ~$50 for the longest time during most of the 5th and all of the 6th gens- even though games got more complex, the medium became cheaper and games started to get more mainstream/sold more.

I'd love to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt but they charged $50 for Skyward Sword HD and $60 for Mario 35th... both of which seemed like cash grabs to me.

swordity said:
Rockstar should go public with more than one entry every decade and a half

You don't need to render that hooker's 4K titty for so long dude I get your working conditions suck but come on
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Why would they...? I think GTA5 is one of the most successful pieces of media thanks to the billions they raked in via Shark cards or whatever.

And I strongly disagree with you on hooker titty rendering quality. I wanna see the nicest hooker titties possible if I'm gonna pay $90 for a game.
 
I think the thing making people mad too is Nintendo first party games hardly go on sale and if they do it's only $20 off. These new switch 2 games on max sale would still be $50-$60 if they continue the trend. I really wish they would do a selects line for switch even if they only made them $30 instead of $20 like how they used to be. I don't think any first party games have had a permanent price drop in the switch era. People can buy used but with that MIG Switch thing I stopped buying used in case of any issues of someone dumping their cart and selling it.
 
Bloomy said:
I'm curious if Nintendo knows what Rockstar / Take-Two plans to charge for GTA VI and if that would be an inflation related adjustment to game pricing. Nintendo adjusts their pricing standard but Rockstar doesn't go public with their plans before Nintendo.
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But we've already established that GTA VI is going to be the most expensive game ever made, RDR2 had a production cost of $540 million and GTA VI is being rumored to cost upwards of $1 billion dollars. When Nintendo games cost $30 million dollars to make, what reason do they have to raise prices?

I also want to take a minute to debunk the false narrative that games used to cost $90 back in the 90s. First of all, cartridges used to be very expensive to manufacture where as Blurays, tiny sd flash cards and digital games cost much lower to manufacture in comparison. Secondly, the video game industry was extremely tiny back in the 90s. A game selling 100k copies was considered a massive success and would guarantee a sequel. If Mario Kart 8 cost $30 million to make, Nintendo could literally sell Mario Kart for $1 and still make $150 million dollars assuming every switch owner bought a copy. This isn't Nintendo selling you something for what it's worth, it's Nintendo seeing what's the maximum they can extrapolate our of your pocket.

This is Nintendo knowing that the Switch 2 will not sell as well as the original and trying to figure out how they can make more money. If you've reached the ceiling on the number of consoles sold (150 million units sold), then the only way to increase profits is to increase the price of the consoles and games. Economics 101.

And why isn't an OLED screen included with the Switch 2 when the Switch already had OLED? We already know that Nintendo is going to release it in the future even though it already is the industry standard and widely available. NO Bitch! Don't nerf the Switch on purpose and make me wait 3-4 years to sell me another OLED Switch just because you want me to buy a Switch again. Nintendo's fake manufactured FOMO is despicable. And Nintendo forcing people to pay for the "Tutorial" perfectly encapsulates how far Nintendo is willing to go to nickel and dime their fans. But hey, at least it's not cardboard this time! :ROFLMAO:

Also Nintendo games never go on sale! The price of the game they release now, is the same price you will pay in 8 years from now! I for one cannot wait to play Switch 2 games... on my OLED Steam Deck! 🥳


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swordity said:
Ironically Nintendo DIDN'T raise prices when inflation was going nuts over corporations getting hella greedy after the idea of people getting a paltry $1600 or whatever the hell it was one time payment during the covid pandemic gave them a money hungry chubby, when a sad number of people probably dumped that entire check into video games.
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Buddy, you want to talk about inflation? The US is headed for $50 trillion dollars in debt. The country is broke and Fort Knox is empty. Once Nixon took the US off the gold standard, it allowed the government to print magic monopoly money that doesn't exist. That is how inflation is created. I can't wait to see you defend and call people selfish for not giving poor virtuous corporate Nintendo part of their pandemic stimulus check when they are headed for bread lines and food stamps! I was not expecting this level of stockholm syndrome.
 
Bryson said:
When Nintendo games cost $30 million dollars to make, what reason do they have to raise prices?
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Source?
Bryson said:
Buddy, you want to talk about inflation? The US is headed for $50 trillion dollars in debt. The country is broke and Fort Knox is empty. Once Nixon took the US off the gold standard, it allowed the government to print magic monopoly money that doesn't exist. That is how inflation is created.
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That's the thing about Republicans - over the past half century, they keep screwing up the economy. Democrats are elected to fix it, but because of the anti-democratic nature of the Senate and the gerrymandered House, they aren't able to make progress fast enough before low info voters put Republicans back in charge again ("Trust us, we'll fix it. Just ignore the fact that we're the ones that broke it."). And the cycle continues.
 
Okay, I had to double check to make sure the title of this thread still read "Nintendo eShop Deals and Discussions" and not "Idiots arguing about Politics". Some of these people should know better too...

Vs. mode: Politics & Controversy

Argue to your cheap ass heart's content on politics and other subjects ripe for argument. This is place for mature discussion and is NOT a flame forum.
www.cheapassgamer.com www.cheapassgamer.com

There is a whole section on this site to post about politics (here's a life tip, both sides suck and are lying to you).
 
I'll be Buying the Switch2 Mario Kart Bundle on Launch day with a Pro Controller & a game or two.. and definitely want the Gamecube Wireless Controller for sure -
 
Citizin said:
I'll be Buying the Switch2 Mario Kart Bundle on Launch day with a Pro Controller & a game or two.. and definitely want the Gamecube Wireless Controller for sure -
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When I do get a Switch 2 I plan to hold off on a Pro Controller until there is a fancy version to buy. Until then I will use my Switch 1 Pro Controller.

The only thing I would miss would be the C button I think and if I do get a Switch 2 early on I doubt there will be many other people I know buying one to even use the video chat with.
 
Yeah, I don't see any need for the new pro controller. It's $10 more than the old one and the old one will do everything except the chat stuff which I wouldn't be able to make much use of that until everyone in my family gets a Switch 2 (2026/2027?). So keep on keeping on.

valiki7375 said:
I only use the switch as a lunch incentive for my students.
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You can still use the OG switch as an incentive for your students. Hell, we played on more than decade old Apple IIe's back in the day as an incentive to finish class work early. The Swtich is jam packed with good stuff.
 
Monty 4.0 said:
When I do get a Switch 2 I plan to hold off on a Pro Controller until there is a fancy version to buy. Until then I will use my Switch 1 Pro Controller.

The only thing I would miss would be the C button I think and if I do get a Switch 2 early on I doubt there will be many other people I know buying one to even use the video chat with.
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There are also back buttons on the switch 2 pro controller that you can assign, but yeah overall you can definitely get by with the switch pro controller.
 
Monty 4.0 said:
When I do get a Switch 2 I plan to hold off on a Pro Controller until there is a fancy version to buy. Until then I will use my Switch 1 Pro Controller.

The only thing I would miss would be the C button I think and if I do get a Switch 2 early on I doubt there will be many other people I know buying one to even use the video chat with.
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I saw the Switch 1 Pro Controller can't wake up the Switch 2 from sleep mode if you care about that
 
TheLegendofTyler said:
There are also back buttons on the switch 2 pro controller that you can assign, but yeah overall you can definitely get by with the switch pro controller.
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A lot of third party switch controllers have programmable back buttons. I bought a zelda one on the cheap (figured it would also be good for pc) and I never bothered making use of those buttons. I'm sure others feel different about this stuff.

LucarioLG said:
I saw the Switch 1 Pro Controller can't wake up the Switch 2 from sleep mode if you care about that
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Googled.. and yeah that seems to be the case: https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/transfer-guide/

Mildly inconvenient, but I can probably live with it since I'm likely going to pick up a controller from near the system anyway so I can just push the button to wake it. That is, if I end up getting one.

Also on that page, it says you can open gamechat up from the home menu system with regular switch controllers. So you can still use gamechat ... it's just not as convenient. Which this makes sense now that I think more on it. Gamechat is just a separate app which is why it doesn't matter what anyone is even playing. It just so happens to work for multiplayer... but it's simpler than that.
 
Citizin said:
I'll be Buying the Switch2 Mario Kart Bundle on Launch day with a Pro Controller & a game or two.. and definitely want the Gamecube Wireless Controller for sure -
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I'm hoping to go for the Mario Kart World bundle, the two Zelda upgrades, and Cyberpunk at launch. I want to get the Gamecube controller too, but I'm going to hold off on the Pro controller for now until I hear the d-pad is better than the Switch's pro controller d-pad.
 
I'll probably just get the Mario Kart bundle and Bravely Default at launch. I'm gonna keep using my Switch 1 pro controller for now.
 
LucarioLG said:
I saw the Switch 1 Pro Controller can't wake up the Switch 2 from sleep mode if you care about that
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Damn, I kind of do care about that haha. I didnt realize Donkey Kong didnt come out until July. Depending on what happens with pricing I may just wait a month to get this or if the pricing goes up just wait until I finish Xenoblade Chronicles X. I played this game on the Wii U when it came out and didnt like it and it was when I decided to sell my Wii U. I do not know why because I am loving it!
 
IF I end up with a Switch 2 Pro, it'll be like... just one of them. Players 2/3/4 can use the regular pro controllers. I feel like at least my old hardware isn't going to just go to waste.

I played some Mario Golf Super Rush last night, and noticed Tokyo Xandadu eX+ had a download pending for an update. Not sure if that's progress on it getting fixed for switch 2 or just a coincidence.
 
Monty 4.0 said:
Okay, I had to double check to make sure the title of this thread still read "Nintendo eShop Deals and Discussions" and not "Idiots arguing about Politics". Some of these people should know better too...

Vs. mode: Politics & Controversy

Argue to your cheap ass heart's content on politics and other subjects ripe for argument. This is place for mature discussion and is NOT a flame forum.
www.cheapassgamer.com www.cheapassgamer.com

There is a whole section on this site to post about politics (here's a life tip, both sides suck and are lying to you).
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They do it all the time in the Xbox thread and think people want to see that bs in every thread.
 
Switch 2 news just keeps getting worse. If they are going to charge $90 for a download cart they could at least make it taste better. This is what happens when your company president is related to its longest running villain.

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Switch 2 Carts Still Taste Bad, Designed Purposefully To Be Spat Out

"We have indeed made it so that if it enters your mouth, you'll spit it out."
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So for all the people saying they will wait to get the Switch 2 do we think they actually will have enough stock to make them easy to find come Christmas? I didn't get the switch until a few years in and never got the wii u. So dont know how hard they were to get launch year. I remember, at least where I was in Southern California for the Wii launch it was hard to find for a while. I plan on pre-ordering but the thought of waiting until Xmas does keep crossing my mind.
 
Mason_mellon said:
So for all the people saying they will wait to get the Switch 2 do we think they actually will have enough stock to make them easy to find come Christmas? I didn't get the switch until a few years in and never got the wii u. So dont know how hard they were to get launch year. I remember, at least where I was in Southern California for the Wii launch it was hard to find for a while. I plan on pre-ordering but the thought of waiting until Xmas does keep crossing my mind.
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If I had to guess....
-Release in the summer, get the day one buyers to buy without having to compete with the holiday shoppers
-Day one buyers talk about the system and how cool it is, how it's the greatest console of all time ever in any universe, etc. - just like fanboys of any console do, but it still sells out
-Holiday time comes, and now all the holiday shoppers will buy that new NS2 everyone's been talking about and is pretty easy to find and aren't competing with day one buyers... but it still sells out.
-Nintendo does a "demand is higher than the price of our games!!" presentation for their shareholders and they become a trillion dollar company
-Iwata comes back from the dead and gets back pay for when he took a pay cut from when the Wii U failed to meet sales demand
-Someone quotes this post for it all being true
 
Depending if you want to believe this story or not; there are SW2 units already shipped stateside. Maybe availability won't be such a nightmare, though I doubt it.

www.nintendolife.com

Rumour: Nintendo May Have Already Shipped A Boatload Of Switch 2 Units To North America

Fingers crossed for an early summer release
www.nintendolife.com www.nintendolife.com

Also curious if any of the SW2 games will have a SW1 relesae as well? Usually when a company moves to the next gen system there are a lot of games that come out for both the "old" and "new" system.
 
LucarioLG said:
I saw the Switch 1 Pro Controller can't wake up the Switch 2 from sleep mode if you care about that
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Ehh. This console feels like death by a thousand papercuts.
I can't imagine a compelling reason why it wouldn't be able to so long as it's paired. Unless the pro2 has the upgraded motion controls they gave to the console itself, it's the exact same controller. Might as well just buy a shell to fix the left joycon's dpad and use that.
Hopefully it's something software related so that third-party Switch1 pro controllers can just update their firmware to turn on the Switch2. I bought it on a lark, but ended up really liking the retro fighters n64 styled controller to the point that it partially replaced the original pro controller; so long as not having a second stick isn't game breaking.
 
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valiki7375 said:
Depending if you want to believe this story or not; there are SW2 units already shipped stateside. Maybe availability won't be such a nightmare, though I doubt it.

www.nintendolife.com

Rumour: Nintendo May Have Already Shipped A Boatload Of Switch 2 Units To North America

Fingers crossed for an early summer release
www.nintendolife.com www.nintendolife.com

Also curious if any of the SW2 games will have a SW1 relesae as well? Usually when a company moves to the next gen system there are a lot of games that come out for both the "old" and "new" system.
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Generally there's a zelda title at least that launches on both as it's been a thing since the Gamecube to wii.
 
Vinny said:
I can't tell if the general consensus on the NS2 so far is good, bad or potato... :unsure:
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Agreed...let's also recall that Nintendo Swtich 1 (is it NS1, SW1, NSW1?..but i digress) that it did have a "perfect" storm of sorts with a global pandemic, lower price (especially with the Switch lite being available), and Animal Crossing New Horizons releasing all at the same time (hell, you couldn't even get a copy of Ring Fit Adventures then).

Naturally there will be early adopters/ scalpers..but long term? The Switch 1 kids are 5 years older and there eyes might fall on the PS5/Xbox.

My 10 year old doesn't touch his switch anymore. Good thing too becuase I needed to canniablize the controllers (versus buying new ones) for my switch.

There's a KS campaing for a game called Monsterpatch. At the $200K mark they will create a Switch version and I am excited about that. Then I realizew how dumb that is becuase I have a Steam Deck, but for some (illogical) reason I "feel" it would be a better fit on the Switch vs the Steam Deck. Makes no sense other than Monsterpatch is a "Nintendo" game.
 
valiki7375 said:
There's a KS campaing for a game called Monsterpatch. At the $200K mark they will create a Switch version and I am excited about that. Then I realizew how dumb that is becuase I have a Steam Deck, but for some (illogical) reason I "feel" it would be a better fit on the Switch vs the Steam Deck. Makes no sense other than Monsterpatch is a "Nintendo" game.
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The term is called mental gymnastics.
 
The Switch 2 is poised to be the "PS5" for Nintendo.

It's the same thing, but more powerful, a few more gimmicks, and will predominantly be filled with SW1/SW2 compatible titles for the foreseeable future due to global economic factors beyond their control.

If the price has to hike, newer games on SW2 are $80, and it doesn't have GTA6, then it will be a slow burn of a system then a must have. Still likely to sell out quietly at first, but I don't think it's got a wow factor to it to make it stand out.

Charging for upgraded performance in my own games really, really kills my initial "buy day one" hype. The pettiness to nickle and dime me just irks me too much.
 
JohnnyCage said:
Might be a universal price hike to offset the losses in the US so that the US price hike can be minimal. People are about to find out these companies are not their friends.
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Wario tweeted the rest stating they will not start "to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the US." Which makes no sense if UK just started pre-orders an hour ago.
 
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