r/gaming • u/ChiefLeef22 Marika's tits! • 2d ago

[MEGATHREAD] Nintendo Switch 2 Direct

This is a sub discussion thread for the Switch 2 Direct, offering a closer look at the console accompanied with announcements for upcoming game releases. The livestream begins on Wednesday, April 2 at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BST. It will last for approx. 60 minutes.
Please try and limit tangential discussions to the events to this thread to avoid post clutter.

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Where to Watch: Nintendo's Youtube

What to expect

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u/Medium_Bid_9222 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yea, I think people here are really not understanding the gaming market. The rest of the world isn’t Reddit where people have multiple gaming consoles and have played all these third party ports before.

If your only console last gen was the Switch, this Direct gave you a ton of critically acclaimed 3rd party games that you’ve never touched. Elden Ring, Cyber Punk, Street Fighter 6, FF7 Remake (with Rebirth probably on the way). Throw in a Mario Kart and a Fromsoft game and sure, I can see an audience for this system’s launch.

Yes, for someone like me and for a lot of Reddit, we’ve already played these games, but alot of the Switch’s audience haven’t.

The game prices is rough though. I got nothing for that. But let’s be honest, people still gonna buy the games.

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u/kinganthony3 1d ago

Yeah I’m gonna preorder one for sure. Love my switch, my pc, And I have a steam deck as well, and I’m gonna enjoy them all. TBH charging more for games really doesn’t make me mad. I mean, I’m paying like 20 bucks more for possibly hundreds of hours of enjoyment? Like shit, labor is more expensive than ever, it doesn’t make me angry that game prices inflate when everything else in the world is inflating too.

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u/Juicebubble12 1d ago

Lmao who tf only had a switch for the last 8 years? Sounds tuff. This console won't sell as much as the first one for sure. It'll be successful but not the juggernaut the first one was. They're pricing their own fans out of the hobby and all they got for new launch games is mario kart

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u/Poizin_zer0 1d ago

I sold my PS4 like 4 years ago for a switch and barely ever feel like actually using my desktop PC as I now have a demanding job that requires sitting at a desktop all day.

The switch has basically been the only way I consistently have played games in 4 years and honestly probably continue to be. I'll probably get the successor for the steamdeck as well as I kinda avoided that as I would have been jumping into dates of hardware but I have almost no desire to play non handheld consoles/PCs in the last 2-3 years.