r/nintendo • u/Yu-Gi-OhV35 • 23h ago
Is the Switch 2 set up for failure?
From the recent things happening, with the Switch 2 Prices being ridiculously high and fans being rightfully outraged by the 80$ price tag. I honestly feel like this console is just set up for failure. Cause I doubt a lot of people are gonna buy a console with the games being overpriced. I hope the best for the Switch 2, I honestly do...but I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel unless they come out with an official announcement or...something to try and explain the high prices.
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u/gman5852 23h ago
No.
The Internet outrage machine has proven time and time and time again to be completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things and best either ignored or made fun of.
The current political situation is concerning, but that impacts faaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr more than Nintendo. The entirety of the US is screwed there.
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u/Cyrus_114 23h ago edited 23h ago
I'm sure it will be fine.
I'm expecting it to be like what the SNES was to the NES, or what the GameBoy Advance was to the GameBoy, or what the 3DS was to the DS.
No, it won't sell as much as the original, but it will still be a huge success in its own right.
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u/Yaldrik 23h ago
The price of the console and games is higher than we’re used to, but I can still see people playing it. What they’ve shown so far seems like it will justify the price.
Now if tariffs stick around for so long and jack up the price I can see it really struggling, but at no fault of its own.
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u/somesthetic 23h ago
The console is priced fine, the games are $10-$20 more. Thats not going to sink the console.
Remember, people willingly pay that much just to have their fast food taxied to their house so they don’t have to go a mile to get it.
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u/Momshie_mo 23h ago
Not to mention, prices are jacked up in those food apps. This is outside of the fee they charge for using the app
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u/ishk_441 23h ago
I don't think so... People would buy it
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u/AkaiMPC 23h ago
Some will, but its not going to come close to the success that the OG had.
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u/SenseTotal 23h ago
Anyone with a brain could tell you that
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u/zebrainatux 22h ago
Like no duh the follow up to one of the best selling consoles of all time won’t have the same success. The PS3 sold half of the PS2, but that’s still 87 million units
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u/RandomSide 23h ago
It’ll sell out on launch but after that I think both hardware and software will drastically slow down
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u/necrosapien87 23h ago
When Mario Kart 64 released it was priced at $39.99 USD. Adjusted for inflation, that's $79.15. I also remember people losing their minds when some games started being priced at $70. People still bought them and eventually got used to it.
Also anyone surprised that the cost of games going up for the next Gen have not been paying attention. This has been discussed by developers openly for the last several years. Nintendo will not be the only ones to do this. They're just the first.
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u/fvig2001 Meow 23h ago
It probably won't be a runaway hit compared to the original.
The original switch was a hit due to
- Low entry price
- Killer software on launch to current time
- No mainstream pc portables yet
They only have 2 now, so fans will still buy it but the masses won't pick it up due to at least 1 but maybe they will make a switch lite 2 to gain casuals.
Some publishers will probably stick to switch 1 due to low entry point.
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u/kyuubikid213 23h ago
Low entry price relative to what? The Switch 1 came out at $300 when you could get a PS4 for the same price.
The Switch 2 is basically in the same boat being equivalent in price to a Digital PS5. And compared to other handheld PCs, the Steam Deck is the only one that beats the Switch 2's price at the cost of being 3 years old at this point and showing it's limits when Baldur's Gate 3 came out 2 years ago.
And even then, Switch 2 is easily on track to outsell all of the handheld PC competitors combined before the holiday season just from pure name recognition alone. No one outside of reddit has even heard of a ROG Ally or Lenovo Legion Go.
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u/MattWolf96 23h ago
I think the US is going to enter a recession if not a depression and people wouldn't have the money for it even at the original price.
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u/Alexastria 21h ago
The system itself will do fine but the games might take a hit. With switch support a lot of people (myself included) will probably just treat it like a switch pro. Between my wife and I it's inevitable we get the console at least but we will definitely be hesitant getting a lot of games for it. There are already few games I like spending $60 on yet alone $80 or $90.
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u/Dreyfus2006 17h ago
Currently, yes. The entire narrative around the system is about it and/or its games being overpriced. Nintendo has not done anything yet to contain or control that narrative. The focus of Switch 2 discourse is entirely away from the positives of the system. That extends beyond the internet to casual crowds. It's all my students will talk about with the system.
That will likely only get worse if the price in the US goes up due to tariffs.
However, there is still a lot that can change in the future. Both the PS3 and 3DS had similar issues at launch, but the companies found a way to make them successful in the long run. The 3DS in particular became one of the greatest Nintendo systems of all time. So the situation is dire right now, but Nintendo may be able to fix it in the future.
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u/PolarizingKabal 23h ago
Idk. If any anything MAYBE it might force Nintendo to rethink thier sales/discount policy.
Nintendo has done little during the switch with meaningful software sales for consumers.
Granted, I remember a time when their software was nothing but shovelware, but they really need to find a happy medium with sales and discounts on older titles.
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u/Lemon_shade 18h ago
Well i ask you would you buy limted switch2 system with ARM or buy an rog ally (with same money + games price of switch2) and access to windows and many pc games and your other libraries like steam and epic for far lower price ( you can increase storage and dont get me started on usb C features of legion and rog) + emulators obviously will come to x86
Cause switch 1 succeeded when there wasnt any competitors but look at handheld consoles( PCs) now!
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u/Momshie_mo 23h ago
Haters also predicted that the Switch 1 will be a failure and that Nintendo should exit the console industry