Mario Kart World MSRP is $79.99 USD.
https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/featured-games/
What kind of rich ass people are they trying to appeal to with this console?! The switches advantage was that it was cheap and aimed at a general audience.
500$ for the bundle is crazy I can’t afford that.
C’mon, you don’t wanna be a WEENIE, do ya??
I would buy it in instant for 500$ but here in Sweden its over 700$. F that.
You have to have balls to charge money for a tech demo
Yeah, some are speculating it’s only $5-10 which honestly is even more of a reason it should be free.
Original Wii retail price - $250 at launch. Included Wii Sports and controller.
$250 in 2006 is equivalent to about $400 today.
Wages have not kept up with inflation though, and the price of housing and everything else has skyrocketed
Very true. No disagreeing there. I just put the info for context
Follow up: WiiU retail price
- Price at launch: $300
- Price adjusted for inflation: $336
Original Switch:
- Price at launch: $300
- Price adjusted for inflation: $316
Honestly, I think anything over $325 is too expensive for this. It’s just an iteration of the previous model. It will be interesting to see what happens after the early adopters grab the initial shipments (how much will price go down, will sales drop precipitously if price does not go down enough?).
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/every-game-console-price-from-nes-to-switch/
(Also, how depressing is it that the price of things has doubled in just 20 years?)
For Switch: $300 from 2017 is $388 today.
For WiiU: $300 from 2012 is $415 today.
Don’t get me wrong though, the economic outlook today is bleak, I don’t disagree. And it seems a lot of people think it’s too expensive and it is rightfully theirs to believe so. We all need to make the best financial decisions for ourselves. At the end of the day this is a luxury product.
Ultimately I think price will be the subject of the conversation up until and after release, and only one thing will change the conversation and that is if the games are good. If Mario Kart World and DK Bananza knock it out of the park, people will not be talking about price, they will be talking about how much you need to play these games.
$250 in 1915 is equivalent to about $7,900 today.
80 dollar vidiya games?!
When did we get here folks?
And apparently $90 if you want it physically 🤡
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Shut the front door
People voted with their money for tears of the kingdom.
I’m out of the loop, what do you mean?
When the tears of the kingdom came out, some people complained it was too expensive (at least on R- ). Some hinted it could (would/did) lead to higher prices. In the end, sales did well enougb (I think). And so here we are. But also tarrifs.
Best you don’t look up Super Nintendo prices then. ;)
Cartridges cost a lot more to produce than cheap, plastic discs or modern, SD card-esque flash storage.
Games in 1994 cost on average $60. That’s about $128 today. The cost of production of those games was at most a few dollars more in materials. Not nearly enough to explain the price difference. Games were simply more expensive then than they are now.
Aging urself mate
used gaming laptop: $250
emulating: free
Stealing is cheaper than buying things!?
I know it’s expensive though, and I emulated Pokemon Sword to play a co-op randomized Nuzzlock with friends. So no doubt there will be a Sw2 emulation scene. But I’m not sure a $250 laptop will even get you the same performance with emulation.
Retriod pocket 5 is only $220
The laptop can be free, too.
The secret ingredient is crime
Hey Hans
Come on, we can argue that Switch 2 price is too high without the need of a PC Master Race evangelist.
That is way too expensive. I’m not paying $450 for a switch, or $80 for Nintendo games. Trump can also shove those tariffs up his fucking ass, I’ll buy my expensive shit in a foreign country before I bend the knee to his idiocy.
450
glad i dint buy one when SWSH came out, such a terrible game, for 400$ console on top of that+ more for dlc. it was a pure money grab. and every game that came out for pokemon was sht.
In Australia, its cheaper to get the Steamdeck than the Switch 2. Sorry fromsoft and The Duskbloods, I dont think the game is worth the $699 AUD.
I’m in Australia too. Did you notice that they increased the price of the slightly-improved Switch 2 Pro Controller to $120 AUD compared to the Switch 1 Pro Controllers $99. What a load of crap. How much is the dock gonna be separate? $200? Plus, if you wanna buy Breath of the Wild with the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition pack included, it’s going to cost you
$120$110… a game from 2017 that only had a value for the resolution tweaked and an increased framerate cap…One thing I did notice is that if you own the zelda games on switch 1, and have the online sub +exp, you get the upgrade for free. I’m still not sure that justifies it of course but it’s something. Still not sure I can spend that much on a console.
(Correction: BOTW + Switch 2 Edition pack is $110, not $120)
If you only get the upgrade for the duration that you have the subscription, then that definitely doesn’t make the one-time-purchase cost justified in my opinion. If you consider that Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom is (still) $90 on it’s own, the upgrade being included for $110 means that the upgrade alone will be at least $20. While I was watching the direct, I thought it was stupid you had to pay for it at all, but honestly expected it to only be $5 at the most. After all, when you buy a Switch 2, you’re paying for the power the console has in that purchase. You shouldn’t be forced to then unlock that power through a further DLC; it’s not like they remastered the game or something. This is like Tesla making you pay extra for features that are already built into their cars.
However, I do think that the Switch 2 Edition packs like the one in Kirby and the Forgotten Land are justified to cost money, because they actually include a new campaign like a normal DLC should. Even with Kirby though, the actual graphical enhancements should be free. The new campaign should be the only paid part.
That’s a wild price point. You can get Series x for the same money, series s for practically half
Get into PS5 for cheaper, too. I can only assume the built for $350 and priced for tariffs, but if that were true you’d expect to see lower relative prices elsewhere. Hell, you can get into a real handheld PC gaming there if you’re patient.
I have zero interest in that product at that price. None.
Nintendo consoles for me are just for playing Nintendo games. So it’s all about the exclusives. For 3rd party I have so many other places to play.
And this is why they can keep the prices high for an inferior product
How? Xbox launched at 500(if you account for inflation it’s closer to 6) the PS5 also launched at the same price. Which again if you count for inflation is closer to 6. So this is coming in under those prices by quite a bit. This is a launch console price point.
Now if you were complaining about the cost of the game then yeah that would make sense because I don’t think Mario Kart has the same production cost as say Forza or Grand Tourismo.
The consoles price point is actually in line with how much the original switch cost(if you take into account inflation).
Right after they announced a FromSoftware EXCLUSIVE.
Very not happy about this.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the exclusive, it’s a Nightreign-style game with a Bloodborne skin that isn’t your standard RPG fare.
I am looking forward to Nightreign, and I’m sure this is a game I’d also enjoy, but one that I feel I am not missing out on as much if I don’t pick it up.
That’s a lot of dough. I won’t be picking this up at those prices. Shit is getting way too expensive.
If nintendo’s price points are anything similar to Lenovo’s from last week, ~50$ US of that is from darth cheeto and his tarrifs.
Not trying to be political, lemmy sorta has that covered already, just pointing that out.
(Source: Linus’s crew pointed it out earlier in the week Link)
If that were the case, only the US should have the higher price. But the whole world does.
Honestly considering his just-announced 24% tarrifs on Japan right after this price came out, I would not be surprised if we get more of a price jump before release.
I’m all in, baby.
I’m really excited for an official way to get TotK in 60fps. No, I don’t want to emulate. I still sometimes turn that game on to walk around and stumble upon stuff. It’s great. And with that app, I may actually try to get all the Korok seeds.
I never actually picked it up. So I might have to when I get a Switch2.
If you liked BOTW, it’s basically that plus a little extra. If you were a little done with BOTW by the end, then it’s a bit of a slog.
Personally, the build ability makes most of the puzzles too repetitive. Additionally it feels like most of the game is collecting resources so you can then do fun things (I was even using duplication cheats and it felt like a chore).
TotK is something else. It’s so good.
Damn. I predicted the console would be $499.
Doesn’t matter. I’m not buying an LCD screen shit box in 2025.
Can’t wait for Switch 2 OLED in 2030
That’s what I will be waiting for I guess.
No one cares
Currently i don’t see why i would invest so much besides owning it out of principal. The OG released with 2 exclusives or 3? That would be a whole other story but with Mario Kart alone?
Yeah, it’s basically Mario Kart World and then Donkey Kong Bananza shortly thereafter.
As a reminder Switch 1 had the following first party titles in its launch window:
- BOTW
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- 1-2-Switch (meh)
- Snipperclips (meh)
- ARMS (meh)
- Splatoon 2
So knowing how those games went, and excluding the meh games. Switch 2 is really only missing 1 first party like Splatoon.
Also Metroid Prime 4 is in the middle space of being a crossover title.
BOTW was also a crossover Wii U/Switch title.
Very true. So this launch is actually pretty on par with switch 1.
With the mouse controls I am really wondering why we didn’t see even a tease of Splatoon 4.
I thought Arms was a blast! Like Mario kart or super smash I did a good job of walking the “competitive, but fun” line.
Otherwise I agree, only Splatoon2 was really unique to the switch. Everything else was released on the WiiU.
Another reason I can think of is that usually launch versions sometimes have vulnerabilities that are harder to patch (which let you jailbreak, if you’re into that)
So…what’s up with the Japanese language & multi language systems they get over there?
Is putting in multiple languages really that much more expensive? Or put another way, why do they get a 330$ version for those who only speak Japanese? The language restriction must be just so people don’t export them… was there a scalping problem?
It’s ostensibly to stop the huge scalping and reselling problem here. Also, then yen is kinda shit right now.
Foreigner in Japan groups are pretty pissed since it’s not currently clear that, if you have a Japanese account but also a foreign one, whether you won’t even be able to connect your other account (i.e. lose access to all your old games). Anything that relies on system language to determine game language also suddenly becomes Japanese-only since this version will only have Japanese. It’s really shitty for people who want to do anything in their native language. My wife also sometimes tries to play on my US account to work on her English.
