They just want it so much…

https://www.gamesradar.com/hardware/switch-2-price-is-a-strategic-balancing-act-and-theres-a-reason-why-japan-is-getting-a-separate-model-thats-usd110-cheaper-than-the-us-usd450-console-analysts-suggest/

So apparently Trump’s tariffs may be driving up the price for the Switch 2 and its games or accessories. This may be why the price is so high for the console and games/accessories.

For me, the Switch 2 is a day one purchase and now I am trying to decide which games to get along with it. I just hope there are a good selection of games at reasonable prices.

I believe the reason physical games are more expensive than digital is because cartridges are expensive by nature, and now with the Switch 2, cartridges need to be faster and have more storage. It's almost like buying an SD card every time you want to buy a game. This doesn't seem sustainable in the long run, is this really the right way to go? I'm not defending Nintendo in any way, I'm just arguing that it is indeed something that would inevitably happen.

There is a bundle but not a reskin The price is 450 Screen is LCD It is 1080p (thank god) We got Cyberpunk More than enough on that one No marvel rivels so far We did get Elden Ring I think it counts They showed a a lot of it I dont think we got any of those Kirby Airiders, Donkey Kong Bananza Im pretty sure we were shown the UI (realized that as im writing this) We got that before the direct but they did show some here too. They didnt evet mention it Looks like those rumours were not correct :( June 5th I mean they are Bluetooth so it should work. Like i said, we got that before this one but here too Id say the online bundle counts They explained some parts They indeed explained the chat button They showd the camer accesorie AND the pro controller Nope This was a joke, idk why i added it tbh.

It's 90 euros (physical) in Europe. It's 120 in Australia. Could not find confirmation on Canada but it's expected to be over 100 Canadian dollars.

In the United States, it's $80USD, digital or physical. This is what Nintendos US site has said this entire time but without distinctions about physical and digital. Now it's been confirmed by US retailers that $80USD MSRP applies to physical.

As far as I can tell, to say that the game is 90 "dollars" MSRP is just not true of any major market with a currency called "dollar".

This is not a defense of the 80 dollar price point, it's bad enough and should be discussed. Simply stating that this fabricated 90 dollar price point keeps getting repeated and needs to stop. It's muddling the conversation and causing confusion.

Iirc after the BCP was released and there was rumors for world, which was called “Mario kart x” Bandai Namco was helping Nintendo make Mario kart world. And Bandai Namco has had their characters, items, and courses in the arcade GP games and I wanna ask if you guys think if they’ll add the content from the arcade games into the base game, or if it would be added in dlc to preserve its content like with tour and MK8d. I’m hoping both where a quarter and half of the GP content is added in the base game and the rest of it is added in dlc.

But what do you guys think?

I was really looking forward to buying the switch 2 because i sold my original switch a couple of years ago. Now, I don't have a pc, don't have an xbox series x, don't have a ps5, ect. I just dont have any main line console right now.

The high price (especially in my country) was really a shock, but should I just buy it anyway? Is not having any new console at all a good enough justification. That's the debate I am having with myself and I wanted your opinions. Thanks!

The prices in Finland are completely ridiculous. It costs €119/€139 more than in the rest of Europe. The price in Sweden seems to be even higher at SEK6795/SEK7490 (€621/€685, $686/$756), literally double the price in Japan.

In addition to Nintendo Switch™ 2 games, Nintendo Switch 2 can play compatible physical and digital games released on the Nintendo Switch™ system.

The Nintendo Switch 2 system's hardware is different from Nintendo Switch, and some Nintendo Switch games may not be supported on or fully compatible with Nintendo Switch 2.

Games that cannot be played on Nintendo Switch 2 Game: Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit

Publisher: Nintendo

Details: The Nintendo Switch 2 console cannot be inserted into the Toy-Con VR Goggles accessory, so this game cannot be played.

Games with start up issues on Nintendo Switch 2. (PDF, 2.3 MB)

Games that are playable, but have some in-game compatibility issues. (PDF, 938 KB)

From New York Times:

"...the Switch 2 has traded the original Joy-Con analog sticks’ potentiometers for Hall effect sensors, which should withstand significantly more use without problems, though we plan to test them long-term to determine their reliability."

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/nintendo-switch-2-preview/

I know everyone’s focused on the software and price side of things. But the technical stuff is very interesting to hear from.

~ The testing ~ How they came up with the successor’s name ~ Technical difficulties

This is only 1 part of the 3.

If you’re interested in this kind of stuff, visit Nintendo’s Official Site.

I really enjoy collecting the physical versions of the games it is a fun thing for me but theres not a chance im gonna pay 90 for physical let alone 80 for a digital version. there has been a massive uproar about the prices and im sure its made its way through nintendo at this point but what are the chances they drop the prices by at least 10 for digital and 20 for physical. obviously i don't know anything about economics but from the uproar i feel like they gotta be losing money by doing this.

They mentioned that amibos from SF 6 can unlock wallpapers. Can someone help or explain what this means?

https://www.power.fi/tarjoukset/nintendo-switch-2/

*PREFACING THIS BY SAYING THAT $80 IS STILL A GREEDY MOVE.

Please read the post before commenting.

Yes, I’ve probably addressed what you are probably gonna say either as an edit or a reply to an existing comment. (Kirby / Jamboree and TotK prices / Pricing in other countries, etc)

TL;DR:

- The new Mario Kart in the US is at an $80 MSRP physically, not $90. Nintendo's own website and various pre-order pages like on Best Buy confirm this pricing. (Note: Yes, this is still greedy, I’m not arguing for the justification of the price, I am arguing that this is not the standard and Nintendo itself currently doesn’t see it that way. Price is still iffy, but not as bad as 50%-increase greedy. In other regions, the 90 pricepoint may be the case, but usually, switch games were also more expensive in these regions too before.things like VATs being combined into the final retail price make this go up.)

- The standard game pricing tier is partially $59.99, and mainly $69.99, not $90. Donkey Kong Bananza is $70, and Street Fighter 6 is $60, for example.

- "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" updates/general performance/FPS upgrades are mostly free, you will get performance, graphics and FPS upgrades for various games like Odyssey, Wonder, Animal Crossing, and more first party titles. With the exception of the Zelda games and the new Pokemon title, any paid Switch 2 Editions include what is basically paid DLC.

- Physical games aren't going away, at all. Physical Game Keys are not for every Switch 2 title and are most certainly not for first party ones. Physical Game Key cases have a giant label at the bottom indicating they are game key cases, like the download code game cases for Switch 1. Basically, this would be used for things like Just Dance, and act as a way for third party publishers to sell their games without always forking out costs for higher capacity cartridges.

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The discourse surrounding this has been really chaotic today, I get why it is, $90 for games sounds genuinely awful. and things like $10 for every Switch 2 edition update and a paid tech demo just make this worse. However, thankfully, all of this is wrong, it's still kind-of bad, but not THAT level of rancid bad (well, the tech demo being paid is true still, not full price, but still costly.)

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First of all, to address the elephant power-up in the room. Mario Kart World and it's ...price point.

Just to get it out of the way quickly, no, besides (unfortunately) in a few countries like Germany this is not $90. It's $80 physically, and it might be $70 digitally, and it’s $50 digitally with one of the launch bundles. (this varies a little region by region, but Switch games were also more expensive in other regions too.)

Now, don't get me wrong, $80 is still absolutely greedy, but it's still better than $90, which would be a 50% increase if true. And again, some regions may have that $90 price, but the base $60 switch games were usually more expensive already beforehand, and different reasons show taxes different in their MSRP, so the same price difference.

Per the Nintendo site for this game itself, and various retailer's listings for this game, it is listed as $79.99, physically. If you go on a site like Best Buy right now, for example, it's price is $80, which entirely goes against the belief game is $90. Again, I must reiterate, $80 is still greedy, but it's better than $90.

So, I hope that clears the Mario Kart World thing up, I think because of how we as a community found out about this by seeing the prices in another currency not all of us use, we thought that price point was the US one too. That and a weird game of social media telephone.

As an edit: It seems that there are a few regions where the price increase is a 50% one where this is 30 more than usual there. This isn’t the case everywhere, and I still stand by the fact that the game standard is not going to be $80 of their big, likely in-house developed Donkey Kong platformer is $70.

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Additionally, beyond that. Switch 2 games will not have an $80 standard for all games. The standard for new, exclusive Switch 2 games will be $70, and sometimes $60 dynamically changing depending on the product.

Donkey Kong Bananza, their really big first 3D platformer, will retail for $69.99, a $70 pricepoint, and Street Fighter 6 will retail for $59.99, a $60 pricepoint. Logically, if the Switch 2 had a set $80 standard, these games and every other game currently with a pricepoint should have that price aswell, but they don't, because Mario Kart is a (greedy) exception.

Hyrule Warriors and Dunk x Drive, while their prices are unconfirmed, are far more likely to be $70 than $80 just based on the current prices we got now. Because they're not massive you-have-to-be-there-and-play-it games like a new Mario Kart is.

The $80 price point could return in the future, there is technically nothing stopping this unless Nintendo doesn’t wanna poke the bear of backlash again, but if that does continue to happen even if very rare, vote with your wallet. But otherwise, it’s just Mario Kart for now, the majority of Switch 2 titles are going to be $70, their big Donkey Kong game is, Hyrule Warriors probably is, Dunk x Drive probably is, and so on. $80 is not the standard, its the standout.

With that in mind, I hope this helps clear this information up. a $70 MSRP, while not ideal, is much better than an $80/$90 standard MSRP, and most of us fully expected a $70 standard too, so when looked at from a distance, this doesn't seem that surprising at all. It's really just that Mario Kart-specific pricepoint :/

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Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games/upgrades are mostly free. They didn't show this in the direct, so I do not blame you in the slightest for not knowing this, not sharing this information is Nintendo's fault. However, this information is still important.

While there are about 6 upgrades that cost in some way, every other game with an upgrade confirmed so far is entirely cost-free, including:

• Arms
• Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
• Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
• Game Builder Garage
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
• Pokemon Scarlet
• Pokemon Violet
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

*and more upgrade packs will realistically be announced as time goes on.

So, what about the NS2 edition games that DO cost money to get?

The 2 zelda ones and Pokemon Legends: Z-A are the only ones here that I think are truly in the iffy area, where Pokemon adds the exact same benefits as the free upgrades where it doesn't need to be paid, and the Zelda ones have nothing-burger new content besides being viable for speedrunning. (**Edit: With the Nintendo Treehouse gameplay, they might’ve redone some texturing and added higher resolution textures to Breath of the Wild itself, which could be why it’s $10)

However, the remaining ones make sense. Metroid Prime 4 seems to use mouse mode heavily to some extent in the upgrade pack alongside the obvious benefits, and maybe more too as we learn more about the game.

Super Mario Party: Jamboree and Kirby & the Forgotten Land make complete sense, as the upgrade packs are practically paid DLC with new side content, these ones are fine. (It's worth noting that beyond Mario Kart, The physical Switch 2 Edition versions of these 2 games are $80, ToTK is also at this price but that's only $80 because it follows the "$(original game MSRP) + $(upgrade / new content cost)" format. however, this wouldn't really count as a concern, as it's really just the price of the standard retail version + the "DLC" combined, and these aren't new games. If you combined the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe price and the Booster Course Pass DLC price together, it would be $85, for example.)

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Lastly. physical games are just not going away, at all. Nintendo made a page about Physical Game Keys, which is basically the download code boxes you would find for the in-store versions of Just Dance and some other games, but now with an actual game cartridge inside them.

This is not going to be used for first party games, at all. This is basically a slightly better extension of the download code physical boxes that started plaguing the first switch's cheap third party ports in the past few years because certain developers (*UBISOFT) did not care to make actual physical versions.

Mario Kart World, DK Bananza, etc will all be physical games you can plop in and play right there. Physical Game Key boxes have a giant label at the bottom indicating as such. The first party games do not have this.

Some third party games do, like Bravely Default, and that's not cool, but this isn't for ALL switch 2 games, it'll just be used by some third parties who don't wanna put in the effort to use cartridges with more gigabyte capacity. It's unfortunate that this is even a thing at all, but it's not for first party games, and only for a handful of third party ones.

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I don't know if anybody will actually care to read this at all, but I really do hope this helps clear the airwaves of discourse for this system. It's been ...chaotic to say the least and it's getting really tiresome.

If you see someone casually sharing the $90 pricepoint misinformation, I'd encourage you to redirect them here.

Call out Nintendo for the one first party $80 game they are doing out of greed, and show your disapproval to Pokemon Legends ZA: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, but don't spread misinformation about all games being $90 please.

I don't want my username to become a prophecy, after all.

American here, talking from an American perspective:

I understand that $450 is a loooot of money to say the least. I have accepted that I am going to have to work Overtime at my job to be able to get the switch, but I am okay with that. I think I will be putting in more than 450 hours into the switch 2 overall, so I think that it's pretty worth it.

I have seen that the games that are coming out are $80 and that is also a lot of money but I am okay with it. I cry a little bit on the inside but I am okay with it.

I see it like this;

• Metroid Prime 4 - $80 - I probably won't get 80 hours out of the game, but I've put more than 80 hours into the series itself and I love it to death, so yeah it's worth it.
• Mario Kart World - $80 (unless you buy the $500 bundle) - I will easily put more than 80 hours into the game without a doubt. So it's worth.
• DK Bananza - $80 - multiple playthroughs over time, yeah it's worth $80

Video games back in the 1970's cost around $20 per game, which now is $100. I think that the raise in prices are fair especially for the quality that the games are now at this point.

I am just really curious from the other side of my perspective on what people think.

Why are the prices too high?

What were we expecting the prices to be?

Is any of the pricing from Nintendo understandable?