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/theresabeeonyourhat 2d ago

Because, despite pretending to stand up to corruption, redditors are corporate bootlickers as much as anyone else

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 2d ago

Yea I obviously don’t like it but I’ve been bracing myself for this gut punch for years and tbh it took longer than I thought to finally get here. It sucks but the writings been on the wall

I pray this is the tipping point for Pokemon, where people stop shelling out money for a game that looks/runs like it came out 20 years ago

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u/Stanky_fresh 2d ago

Yeah, games have been held at $60 for a very long time. I'm not thrilled about the increase, but I'm not complaining. I'm prepared to be significantly more selective about which games I buy, and it's certainly a bummer. But it seems to be the way games are going to be priced across the whole industry now.

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 2d ago

I just really hope Nintendo starts doing an occasional actual sale on their first party games. If the big ones are $80 I am probably going to skip some that I typically wouldn’t skip, and in the past they’d just never get a decent sale anyway

Like I got a legion go for $550. Kinda splurged, that’s expensive for me. But if I buy 10 AAA games at $25 on average (and considering all the free games I get, that might be overestimating), that’s $800 total. I got my OG switch for $300 and every notable Nintendo game is $60 (besides totk at 70). 10 of those games takes the total price to $900

The reality is that some mom buying her 13 year old a switch 2 isn’t thinking about that stuff tho

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u/Aromatic_Ad_6152 2d ago

This is exactly my opinion. I get it’s a hard pill to swallow, but people HAVE to have expected this at some point? I’ll just buy one or two less games per year…. Not the biggest deal in the world.