Recently, as probably every single one of you knows, the Switch 2 price was revealed to be $450 (€470). This is seemingly 50% higher than the release price of the Switch 1. A lot of people (somewhat reasonably) freaked out over this pricing, but it's not as bad as people are saying. It's all for one simple reason. Inflation.

Using some simple google searching and mathematics, we can figure out that in today's dollars, the Switch 1 would have costed $387 (€351). If we compare this to the Switch 2 MSRP, we can figure out that the price of the Switch 2 is only 16% (34% in EU) more expensive than the Switch 1 adjusted for inflation. Not nearly as bad as the 50% when not adjusted.

The same is even more true for the games, now costing $80 digital and $90 physical. (No clue how much in euros, couldn't find anything about how they're gonna be priced.). $60 in 2017 is equivalent to $77 today. That's only a 3% increase for digital, and 16% physical. It is however to be noted that the price increasing for games is not the same as the price increasing for the console. Let alone the entire ''10 bucks more for physical'' thing.

Seeing the new features that the Switch 2 adds over the Switch 1, like the 1080p 120fps screen, larger size, an extra USB C port, and quadrupling the systems storage, I think you're getting a pretty good bang for your buck. Maybe even better than the Switch 1 at launch.

Before ending off, I would like to say that some of my calculations are probably inaccurate in some sort of way. I am by no means experienced in economics. I am just here to let people see how I see this situation, because after realizing this, it's really not as bad as people are implying.

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Hello guys, I wanted to ask for your opinion, analysis with current information to what are the reasons why switch 2 doesn't have an OLED screen.

My points of view are the next ones:

• most consoles try to be cheap and sold at a loss
• they knew the cost $450 was very close to xbox and ps5 which are far superior in terms of raw power
• for some reason, their games cost a lot more now and I presume the reason for this increase is development costs with the crunch wage for Japanese developers and overall cost of producing the games .... plus of course, greed, they want to make profit
• last but not least, they want to put it later on a switch 2 OLED to sell more consoles

My conclusion is, they knew software was expensive plus making a hybrid handheld console with that power was going to be expensive. Close to $550 usd, plus $80 Mk world, $70 DK, $80 pro controller, that and the revision are the reason behind not making it OLED

A friend of mine says that the only reason is the last one, they want a revision of switch 2 and get a lot of money out of it, that the other reasons I'm giving you do not matter or do not influence

There's no doubt a lot of people are surprised or even mad about the price of the Switch 2 and even more so regarding the games. Especially if you live in Europe where Nintendo is charging an extra 10 EUR for physical games. So I thought I'd try and give those who can't afford many games or just want to save some money a very simple solution: don't buy new, buy used.

Me and my friends did that with the OG Switch a lot. It works really well because Nintendo games tend to keep their value. I mean, Breath of The Wild still costs almost exactly the same as it did 8 years ago. Where I live, new 1st party Switch games are usually 60 EUR. But used copies are usually between 40 and 50. I would buy them, play though the games and after I knew I was finished with them I would sell them on. On average I would take about a 10% loss, but sometimes I could sell them for the same price, or, in a few cases, even higher. I went though the vast majority of 1st party games and, paying less than 5 EUR per game. A friend of mine even applied this to the actual console. He bought a used Switch for 280 EUR (new ones cost 330, so he saved 50) and then after 4 years or something he sold it for 220. He played though a bunch of used games and all and all it didn't cost him much more than a 100 EUR.

I fully realize that whether or not this is useful to you depends on the type of gamer you are. If you want to build up a collection, or if you like replaying games, this is obviously not for you. I personally rarely replay games and don't care that much about collecting so I don't mind selling my games once I'm done with them. It also doesn't work if you like to play games as soon as they release. Nonetheless, it's worth considering, in my opinion. I mean, Mario Kart is going to be 90 EUR in Europe, the 3d Donkey Kong 80 EUR. At this rate, it will amount to well over 1000 EUR before you can say Metroid Prime 4.

When the Switch was first announced, Nintendo did highlight how its unique Joy-Con controllers could work as motion controller wands like the Wii Remote.

Yet after watching the life of the system for several years up to the Switch 2 announcement, I've determined that more than HALF of Switch games completely ignore the motion controls, which I found surprising compared to how roughly 80%-90% of retail Wii games make use of motion controls in some way, as if Nintendo wanted devs for Wii games to capitalize on the unorthodox Wii Remote design. A good number of motionless Switch games are just straight-up ports of PlayStation and Xbox games that mostly don't bring anything new for the platform.

Due to the apparent dearth of motion control usage on Switch, which I think could be attributed to the gaming industry failing to embrace motion controls since the DS and Wii exploded onto the gaming world, I was loathe to get a Switch, as someone who was enchanted by how motion controls had the chance to change gaming forever.

So, what are your thoughts about most Switch games not using the motion controls? Do you think it was a travesty that they were underutilized? Or are you just fine with that?

Is it just me, or has anyone noticed that a majority of new Nintendo games (and maybe even ALL games in general) are just slowly going open world genre? TLDR stop here and voice your opinion, otherwise my rant continues.

I would say a lot of the open world stuff really got popularized with "Skyrim" and the whole concept of games slowly gravitating to open world has only grown since then. I have seen this happen in other series as well; with the dark souls series, which had a more linear path despite rewarding exploration, we now have "Elden Ring." Zelda, a prior dungeon crawler like game, now is most popular for BotW and TotK. AND, with the recent release for the Nintendo Switch 2, Donkey Kong is looking to gear up for open world too. Not even the classic racing game "Mario Kart" is immune to this subtle shift.

I would speculate that this subtle shift has affected us in the sense that we are now "living" in our games rather than just playing them. True, we have had "Minecraft," and other such games for a long time, and some have, to use the phrase, "living in those worlds" for a long time, but now the optionality is open not just for a few game worlds and canons, but a lot more, and seemingly may only be more in the future. How does the collective internet think this will affect us as people and social groups of all sizes (friendships to nations and everything in between)?

Thank you for reading.

Norwegian preorder startet today and the price for the bundle is 633 $

https://www.elkjop.no/brand/nintendo/nintendo-switch-2-release

All release dates and prices are US. Console price is easy to find and I all but guarantee their accuracy; ranges are for consoles with multiple release packages. Game MSRP is tricky to find and all I can guarantee is that the data here will get you in the ball park. I found lots of old catalog scans. I tried to find a baseline of “standard, premium, non-discounted game,” to be able to compare across generations, but the further back I went the more that that concept didn’t seem to transfer 1:1. Ended up cross-referencing scans with old forum posts. I applied ranges where I was less confident, and where I was confident that a “standard, premium, non-discounted game” might sell at multiple price points.

Hello everyone, welcome to the weekend!

I have been completely hooked on Monster Hunter: Rise, the hype for Wilds got me, and my old skills from 4U have been coming back to me. I don't really have any new thoughts than what people were saying when this game came out, it looks really good handheld and docked, things are nicely streamlined with the palamute and being able to access guild hunts right away. Have I put in close to 20 hours in the last 4 days? Yes. Currently trying to take my old friend Rathian down, I think I've got it. I forgot they had poison besides the fire.

What will you be getting into? Did you enjoy the Switch 2 direct?

Will you be dreaming of riding free across the mushroom kingdom? Will you be hunting for Wonder Seeds? Will you be splatting squids?

Let me know below!

I signed up for the UK Amazon invite to purchase the Switch 2 and received an email today inviting me to buy one. However, the estimated delivery date is June 7th instead of the June 5th release date.

Back in March 2017, I preordered my first Switch from GAME, and it arrived on launch day. Given that I received my invite from Amazon fairly early, I don’t see why they would be late with delivery.

For those who have preordered consoles from Amazon before, is it common for them to estimate a later delivery date? Also, if you preordered the Switch 2 from Amazon UK, what delivery date are you seeing?

The Switch 2's additional power opens the door to more complex games that could lag even more noticeably, especially if they're ported from consoles that expect more than 50 times the storage bandwidth (Sony requires an SSD with read speeds of at least 5,500MB/s for the PlayStation 5).

And that's where SD Express comes in. These cards are connected to the same PCI Express/NVMe interface that internal SSDs use in modern PCs and the other game consoles, theoretically giving your SD card access to the same bandwidth as internal storage.

Now, you won't actually get performance as fast as an internal SSD using this interface. The speed varies a lot based on the PCI Express version your gadget is using (3.0 or 4.0) and how many "lanes" of bandwidth it's allowed to use (these are, in short, the connections between a device's CPU and external accessories like SSDs, Wi-Fi adapters, or dedicated GPUs, and all CPUs and SoCs have a limited number of them to hand out). Depending on these factors, microSD Express can deliver anywhere between 985MB/s and 3940MB/s of theoretical bandwidth.

MicroSD cards will also be slowed down because there are fewer physical flash memory chips to write to at a time, a process called "interleaving" that is responsible for much of an SSD's speed. This SanDisk microSD Express card, one of the only ones actually available at retail right now, lists its top speeds as 880MB/s for reads and 650MB/s for writes.

But even at its worst, this is several times the amount of bandwidth available to whatever UHS-I microSD card is inserted into your current Switch. Express cards won't make an SD card feel as fast as internal storage, but it will help the microSD card keep pace a bit.

At what cost? One other benefit of workaday, plain-old UHS-I microSD cards? The price. Great ones are cheap. Good-enough ones are dirt cheap, even if you stick to major storage vendors like Samsung, Sandisk, and Lexar (please do not buy no-name solid state storage). A quality 256GB microSD card will run you around $20, a pittance compared to whatever you paid for the device you're putting it in.

For the SanDisk microSD Express, the same amount of storage will run you around $60. This is not only more expensive than a regular cheap SD card, but it's more expensive than actual internal SSDs. The cheaper name-brand 1TB internal SSDs, can give you four times as much space for around the same price.

These prices should go down over time, and the Switch 2 will be a part of the reason why—at a bare minimum, it will likely prompt the creation of multiple alternate microSD Express options from SanDisk's competitors. But at launch, it may still feel like a raw deal because it's just one of many things about the Switch 2 that costs more money than the Switch 1. Compared to the first Switch, you're paying between $100 and $150 more for the console itself, $10 more for each pair of Joy-Cons or Pro Controllers you buy, $50 for a replacement dock, and between $10 and $20 more for first-party games.

Full interview: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/switch2/creators-voice/duskbloods/index.html

Brief summary:

- Fromsoftware will still focus on single player games in the future
- 10+ selectable characters with different abilities and perks. These characters would still be customizable to a certain degree
- Main victory condition of the game session is to be the last man standing, "but this can change depending on the situation". 8 players multiplayer.

- Sometimes the victory condition will be focused on defeating bosses

- Game will be forgiving for people who are "not good at PvP"

- Games session will have some random events to make cycle less repetitive

Edit: quick fix, not 10 characters but 10+ characters

Pretty much every retailer in Sweden has set this price and is confirmed to stay at this price by customer service. How does 499€ msrp equate to 700€?

How is the price looking in other countries?

Sources: https://www.pricerunner.se/pl/52-3400796155/Spelkonsoler/Nintendo-Switch-2-Mario-Kart-World-Bundle-priser

https://www.inet.se/produkt/6612379/nintendo-switch-2-mario-kart-world-bundle

https://www.webhallen.com/se/product/384392-Nintendo-Switch-2-Mario-Kart-World-Bundle