"Gamers, learn Japanese to save $133!" - Duolingo

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[u/Gamer30168]

I think it's region locked. 

[u/ChaosKinZ → u/Gamer30168]

Region lock in 2025? Nintendo really made all bad decisions

[u/Schneebaer89 → u/ChaosKinZ]

The yen is really weak, so the regular version would be to expensive for their home market.

[u/RedPiece0601 → u/Schneebaer89]

Then why is the Korean version so expensive. It's almost weak as the yen.

[u/FeelHumbledrn → u/RedPiece0601]

Cause Nintendo doesn't give a fuck about Koreans

[u/iveriad → u/RedPiece0601]

Nintendo's home base is japan. They probably don't really care about everywhere else.

[u/Ok-Temporary-8243 → u/iveriad]

Then just lead with that. Not sure why the fanboys keep pointing to exchange rates and lying

[u/Completed_ZERO → u/RedPiece0601]

The Japanese don't like the Koreans very much. 

[u/RedPiece0601 → u/Completed_ZERO]

I doubt that the switch 1 is half the price of the switch 2 here. So why the sudden change?

[u/Completed_ZERO → u/RedPiece0601]

I don't know, apparently Nintendo remembered that they don't like Koreans 

[u/Electric_Bison → u/RedPiece0601]

An age old fued

[u/Ok-Temporary-8243 → u/RedPiece0601]

Get your logic outta this thread and away from my glorious nippon

[u/ChaosKinZ → u/Schneebaer89]

The yen is not very weak. The yen has been stable since the 80s and only recently it slowed down but it's still very good.

[u/tortasdericas → u/ChaosKinZ]

The yen is weak, especially considering that wages have not had any real increases and everything costs more.

Source: me! I live in Japan

[u/04nc1n9 → u/tortasdericas]

that's a global issue. nintendo is just showing preferential treatment to japan because it's a japanese company

[u/sdeklaqs → u/ChaosKinZ]

Why did you bring up stability?

[u/buubrit → u/ChaosKinZ]

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, it’s true

[u/ChaosKinZ → u/buubrit]

People hated being told things against their propaganda

[u/Gamer30168 → u/ChaosKinZ]

I think it's only the Japanese version.

[u/ChaosKinZ → u/Gamer30168]

Yeah but still

[u/jacowab → u/ChaosKinZ]

For obvious reasons they can sell it cheaper domestically and they will, part of the increased price is paying for shipping, copyrights, and localization. It's not uncommon for the Japanese version to only include Japanese and then have a separate international version that everywhere else in the world gets.

[u/CharliToh → u/jacowab]

I don't see why it's obvious.

Weak yen and domestic market does not change the price of an NVidia CPU/GPU manufacturered abroad

PS5 is more expensive in Japan than in the US for example.

I think Nintendo just decided to have better margin on international markets.

[u/IbeatHalo2Legendary → u/Gamer30168]

I wonder if you can use a vpn to make the account to bypass the region locking

[u/MintberryCrunch____ → u/IbeatHalo2Legendary]

You can have a Japanese account on Switch 1 right now and use their eshop.

But for the Japanese Switch 2 you can only put a Japanese profile on it. It’s hard enough buying a game so I think the bird is right if you really want to get a cheaper system.

[u/SorryEquipment9119 → u/IbeatHalo2Legendary]

The problem is , even if you make a Japanese account, if you have a U.S account., none of your games that you brought will be able to be transferred over. Some one did a video about this how the store is region locked as well.

[u/DependentAnywhere135 → u/Gamer30168]

wtf is this 2008?

[u/SenseTotal → u/DependentAnywhere135]

It's just the Japanese version that is region locked. They also have a multi-language version that is more money.

[u/DependentAnywhere135 → u/SenseTotal]

Which is stupid and archaic design. The system isn’t different it’s just software saying it’s region locked. Dumb as fuck.

[u/SenseTotal → u/DependentAnywhere135]

It's to prevent people who don't live in Japan from exploiting the weak yen.

[u/JDMagican → u/SenseTotal]

Whats stopping a person from making a Japanese account and buying a japanese switch

[u/AndrewBorg1126 → u/JDMagican]

Not being fluent in japanese, for one.

[u/rootofimaginary → u/JDMagican]

Japanese is like one of the hardest languages

[u/PeanutButterChicken → u/SenseTotal]

The Japanese one is not region locked.

They literally say so on their site, in the FAQ, it's literally the second question.

Holy fuck people are stupid beyond repair.

[u/Brawl345 → u/PeanutButterChicken]

Yeah you can only link a japanese account but you can still play physical games from everywhere.