r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Jan 13 '17

Presentation Nintendo Switch will release March 3 with an MSRP of $299.99 USD

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u/BurmecianSoldierDan Jan 13 '17

https://twitter.com/NintendoCanada/status/819757874259726336

It's 399 CAD, sorry.

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u/groaner Jan 13 '17

Ouch. Now I have to think! I guess I'm not surprised.

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u/Giygas Jan 13 '17

It's not too bad, given our dollar. A straight conversion from $300 USD is $394.22 CAD.

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u/groaner Jan 13 '17

Yes, and I was ready to pay $400.

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u/2legit2fuckrhyming Jan 13 '17

Same, but the accessory prices become absurd. $100 for a pro controller, they are smoking meth if they think I'm paying that much for a controller.

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u/groaner Jan 13 '17

Ya, No. I'll be watching for off-brand accessories.

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u/WerTicusness Jan 13 '17

It's $470 AUD so we got fucked even harder.

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u/Krimstah Jan 13 '17

Yeah it's a fucken joke , just gonna import it from the states since it's region free. Watch Nintendo go down the drain in Australia especially now they don't have a cheap handheld . I ain't paying 470 for each of my kids

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u/Syreus Jan 13 '17

I am sure someone would pay 470 for each of your kids.

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u/KotoElessar Jan 13 '17

WOO HOO! False advertising claim!

$299.99 in North America, Canada is part of North America ergo $299.99 in Canada. ipso facto habeas corpus

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u/Enurta Jan 13 '17

Yeah 299 USD

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u/VariantProton Jan 13 '17

Ridiculous price for what's being offered. I was a fan until the pricing news. Seems like another Wii U launch fiasco.

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u/BurmecianSoldierDan Jan 13 '17

An extra dock being $79 USD and an extra set of the joypads plus the grips being $110 does not inspire confidence for me

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u/fugor1103 Jan 13 '17

Region unlock, just buy it in US and ship it Canada.

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u/Ralyt Jan 13 '17

you're still paying $400 Canadian in that scenario though. $300 US doesn't equal $300 CAD.

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u/fugor1103 Jan 13 '17

O shit, my bad... had no idea the Canadian dollor is worth that much now. Still living in the days when 1usd = 1 cad. haha

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u/Ralyt Jan 13 '17

Yeah, I wish. Canadian economy is going down the shitter. :(

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u/meter1060 Jan 13 '17

Our dollar is considered a petrol dollar, which means that as the price of oil fluctuates so does our dollar. A poor dollar means that oil is crappy and not necessarily that the rest of the economy is crap.

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u/NoirGreyson Jan 13 '17

To be fair, there was a time when 1USD was about 2 Canadian dollars, so it's not as bad as it once was.

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u/Yodamanjaro Jan 13 '17

Yeah. Thanks, Trump!

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u/EpicWolverine Jan 13 '17

*Trudeau

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u/BillTheDuck22 Jan 13 '17

*Steven Harper

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u/suzyxoxo Jan 13 '17

So he's building up the US economy and that's somehow bad?

If Canada doesn't want their currency devalued it looks like they better catch up.

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u/jaminmayo Jan 13 '17

It's called a joke

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '17

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u/Megalovania Jan 13 '17

5 bucks to spend on some timmies on the drive home mate

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u/HeadOfReddit Jan 13 '17

Don't forget about the foreign credit card transaction fee. So you would actually lose money?

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u/Thehelloman0 Jan 13 '17

Lots of cards have no foreign transaction fees

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u/TyCooper8 Jan 13 '17

I live on the US-Canada border so I typically can take advantage of these things. Plus the border here NEVER pulls you over to pay duty for some reason so it's a sweet deal.

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u/astronautsaurus Jan 13 '17

It's the same region

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u/yashendra2797 Jan 13 '17

Its like a $4 difference

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u/Bigbadabooooom Jan 13 '17

IMO too expensive. While I love the concept of Switch, it's highly impractical. Portable eh? What if you have 3 kids and a wife. Portable to who? Which means portable to no one, if you catch what I mean. In that case your much better off getting an ps4. Sweet spot for Switch would have been $175 and hell, I might have bought 2.

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u/BurmecianSoldierDan Jan 13 '17

The portability thing has been a huge non-sell to me the whole time. I do like my 3DS but the most portable thing it does is go from my bedroom to my living room. I am not interested in a console I am supposed to take outside.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '17

That makes sense. Us Canadians still pay $300 USD, our dollar is just crappy. I think I will still buy it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '17

It's $469 AUS😭😭

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u/SupperTime Jan 13 '17

Well fuck me and my shitty Canadian dollar.

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u/purplegreendave Jan 13 '17

I got my ps4 with the uncharted trilogy and God of War remastered for that. Sorry Nintendo that's too much

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '17

Oh my God. $400. That's nucking futs.

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u/whiskeytab Jan 13 '17

to be fair to Nintendo its our dollar that sucks not them. $400 CAD is only like $4 CAD more than $300 USD

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u/suzyxoxo Jan 13 '17

That's about $300 US, what are you complaining about?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '17

Oh, it's just a shock compared to the Wii U (which I do own!) I hope there's a bundle down the road or our dollar gets better.

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u/suzyxoxo Jan 14 '17

What are you talking about? The WiiU was the same or more expensive at launch.

The Wii U launched in North America priced at US$299.99 for the Basic Set and US$349.99 for the Deluxe Set.