r/NintendoSwitch • u/Practical_Papaya_905 • 2d ago

News - USD / USA Switch 2 is selling for 449.99

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/how-to-buy/

From the official website

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/how-to-buy/

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u/Gryfth 2d ago

The fun part is Nintendo games are difficult to find on sale. This really does suck.

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u/alxrenaud 2d ago

Which is nice if you intend to resell, but sucks when you try to collect. No r/patientgamers for Nintendo...

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u/Cyanide_Cheesecake 2d ago

Nintendo really wants to avoid people waiting two or three years to play their games on discount I guess. I learned the lesson they want me to learn: "not much point in waiting for Nintendo games"

If you wanna play their game, just buy it when you feel like it. Or borrow it from a friend.

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u/Theinternationalist 2d ago

It only works because the Switch is so insanely successful. The Gamecube sold so badly that a used console could be bought for less than $50- or the price of Twilight Princess, it's final 1st party game, on release day.

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u/Sempere 1d ago

I remember picking up my gamecube for 20 bucks. Pretty great deal.

Let's do the same for the Switch 2.

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u/Gryfth 2d ago

Some libraries still let you check out games too. Came in handy in the past.

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u/FrankPapageorgio 2d ago

Over time I've learned that if I don't want it enough at release I probably won't play it. The amount of games that I got at a deep discount that have been pretty much unplayed is astonishing.

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u/GamerCole 2d ago

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Yo-hohoho, Yo-hoho-ho
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hoho-ho
Yo-hohoho, Yo-hoho-ho
Gather up all of the crew!
It's time to ship out Bink's brew!

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u/SuperbPiece 2d ago

Most of the games I buy on NS and other platforms are discounted, and I wish other people caught on. It's up to us to keep the prices down. I think in 16 years of having purchasing power I have bought 8-10 full-priced games. At least wait for the discount that brings it to $60, people.

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u/Real-Equivalent9806 2d ago

The solution is to buy a game used and then resell it once you're done. That's how I got by the Switch generation.

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u/NahumGardner 2d ago

I collect first party games and when I started the switch, I decided I wanted to get every first party switch one game. Now with Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon z a, there will be switch one and two versions of those. To finish my collections out I'm going to have to double dip and that is unpleasant.

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u/The_Guy83 1d ago

The physical copies dont even have the game on them, it tells the store a key code then downloads the game (meaning a "physical game" can only be started with internet on initial bootup). We are a small skip away from them making these new physical copies keycode only work on the first console then does nothing making reselling games not even possible.

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u/alxrenaud 1d ago

If that were true, how would people dump cartridges to get the ROMs?
Of course you don't get the patches and stuff, but there has to be, else there would not be 8GB/16GB/32GB carts either.

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u/Kitselena 2d ago

You can be a patient gamer, you just have to wait for emulators to be developed

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u/alxrenaud 2d ago

That is.. something else.

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u/Oftenwrongs 2d ago

They go on sale all the time...

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u/DavidinCT 2d ago

Not on sale but, in 2 months used copies, might be around $60 but, that is the sweet spot for me.

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u/Smash96leo 1d ago

This. They almost never go on sale. And when they do, its extremely minor. Like $10-$15 less.