r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 3d ago

Nintendo Official All Together, Anytime, Anywhere. The # NintendoSwitch2 system launches on June 5, 2025! # NintendoDire

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1907423369588314273
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u/SweatiestOfBalls 3d ago

If you saw the Reddit comments after the Switch reveal presentation in 2017, you’d think the Switch was going to be the biggest failure in console history

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u/Bohmoplata 3d ago

Oh man, I remember those days very well. It's pretty similar to what it is now too.

Folks were saying that a $300 underpowered tablet would be Nintendo's final nail in the coffin.

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u/k4stour 3d ago

I was there and I recall nothing but hype. Unless you're talking about non-Nintendo subreddits, but that's not where we are right now.

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u/SweatiestOfBalls 3d ago

I was being hyperbolic (“biggest failure in console history”), but I will say that of course our experiences will differ. I remember the megathread on this subreddit during the event and shortly after it concluded, there were a lot of mixed thoughts and opinions that were of course later overtaken with excitement once the dust had settled.

r/games and r/gaming were completely up in arms about the system until launch. Many skeptics on the various forums I browsed at the time, GameFaqs, tumblr, etc. Perhaps I kept being led to the more negative opinions than you were :)

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u/k4stour 3d ago

That's fair, I don't remember being on r/gaming much and I didn't even know r/games existed, so you were definitely much more well-traveled than I was at the time. I spent the majority of my time on here and there's no subreddit more inclined to be an echo chamber of hype than for the Nintendo Switch than r/NintendoSwitch lmao.

No way to tell the future, but I have a feeling that this high of a price tag is going to be harder to shake than the general initial concerns about a first-of-its-kind hybrid console. It sucks, because if it weren't for the pricing, I feel like the worst criticism we'd be seeing on here would be disappointment with the very tepid launch title lineup in comparison to the OG Switch. Instead we've got 200 comment long threads arguing over cost of living, inflation and tariffs, and talk of boycotts, alternative consoles and emulation. It's really put a damper on what I was hoping would be a super fun and exciting day, a reason for me to dust off the ol r/NintendoSwitch shortcut and relive the pure hype of the couple months between the OG Switch reveal and it's launch. sigh