Topic: Nintendo Switch 2

Day 6 of waiting for a Switch 2 online restock or my invite to get it straight from Nintendo

With these sort of things it’s easy to start getting impatient

@MrCarlos46 Nintendo seriously need to work on their international supply chains, here where I live you can find Switch 2 ready do buy in every single store. I even bought one on small discount (only 3% off but its still something).

Or maybe its related to tariffs in USA.

@barabara It'll be a mix of selling through so much so fast, and tariffs. Supply seems readily flowing in to the EU and UK, so it's likely just getting it to the US that's the issue. Wonder why.

There was only so much supply for launch because they stockpiled inventory for months of production. Now that that's sold through, they'll be selling what they can produce as it's made, with obvious considerations to shipping and load efficiency. No point sending one container of hardware on a ship of other stuff when you can wait a bit, load it up with just hardware entirely and pay a bit more.

@Haruki_NLI
I might be completely wrong but i read somewhere that there is some kind of "90 days tarrifs exemption" currently in US and everybody, i mean EVERYBODY who is producing electronics in China is rushing to stockpile everything they produce in enough quantity so they can last for next 6 to 9 months. Containers are booked in such capacity that companies just send stuff by airplanes now. Seems to me like Nintendo didnt anticipate that.

Anyway I wanted to buy second pair of joycons and HOLY ***** they are expensive if u buy them saparately. 117 euro is crazy price. Seriously in some places you can buy Switch Lite for not much more than that.

@barabara Isn’t the 90-day tariff exemption for all countries but China?

And since Nintendo also produces the Switch 2 in places like Cambodia and Vietnam they would have to see how much they get from there before tariffs in those places possibly go up

@MrCarlos46 From what i understand even if companies produce things outside of China, its mostly only small % of total. China is the king of production that you simply cant substitute.

"The U.S. will reduce its Reciprocal Tariff on goods from China (including articles of Hong Kong and Macau) for 90 days"
"New agreement sees reciprocal US-China tariffs drop from 125% to 10% for 90 days"

From what I gather, the China production is what's feeding the rest of the world. Vietnam and Cambodia seems to be where the US gets the majority of its stock, hence why they moved production there in 2019 in the first place in anticipation. What they couldn't predict is the absolute roundabout of different tariffs that keep going up and down and sideways and upside down three times a week and twice on Fridays.

So in terms of rushing to get it out, sure they could be, but thats also limited by capacity, and Nintendo has already said unless tariffs get way way worse they are largely unaffected by increasing prices on high margin items like accessories

Aside from the battery life, I love it. Playing Cyberpunk with this kind of fidelity on a Nintendo console is cray.

Loving my Switch 2 so far, however I briefly went back to my Switch OLED yesterday and...bloody hell it is so much more comfy. I've not been able to experience the battery issues because honestly the Switch 2 becomes uncomfortable to play for me long before the battery drains.

I would absolutely jump on a Switch 2 Lite if it meant we could have something closer in build to the original Switch.

theory time!
okay so last night i was playing mario kart world and the idea struck me: if diddy kong and the rest of the crew were added as an update to promote Donkey Kong Bananza soon, wont others show up? and a major group of characters are currently NOT in world: The Koopalings.
now i know i sound delusional but wouldnt a 2d sidescroller with Larry, Lemmy, Morton, Iggy, Wendy, Roy, and Ludwig taking spotlight be really fun, with their different powers? so what if they make a koopalings game, and thats when theyll be added into MKW? because it seems like to much of an exclusion to me. im probably looking wayyy to deep into it but i think it would be cool. 😝

Stores keep getting stock in, if you want a Switch 2 you can easily find one in my area.

@OctolingKing13
They're doing lots of cool offshoots and stuff like that lately, so I wouldn't put it past them to do some sort of platformer with the koopalings. That could be really interesting!

You could switch them on the fly sort of like Crash 4 with the different masks to access different powers and stuff.

There’s a Walmart restock happening Wednesday June 25, but Walmart+ members get early access to get it at 9pm ET/6pm PT, while it opens to everyone else at 10pm ET/7pm PT if it’s still in stock by then.

This goes for both the standalone and bundle versions.

welp the prime 4 “out now” sign was officially confirmed as an error, since Nintendo responded to Eurogamer’s inqueries. however, they did reconfirm to them the title would release in 2025 still, so thats hopeful!!!
@rallydefault omg yess i love that idea

So I've seen some people try to argue against game key cards being a major factor for Cyberpunk being the best selling 3rd party Switch 2 game. And I think these people don't know Nintendo very well.

Apparently it did not sell dramatically better than the next best 3rd party seller (which I'm pretty sure is Street Fighter 6), but that's not the notable part. In what reality does Cyberpunk have even a chance of selling better than Street Fighter 6 on Nintendo? A western AAA M rated cyberpunk GTA-ish game When has anything like this ever been a notable success on Nintendo? Like...ever? Like you go through the list of best selling Switch games and the only M rated games on that list at all are Resident Evil ports or games Nintendo published/heavily promoted.

I can't imagine a situation where of all the games you can buy on Switch 2, Cyberpunk beats them without the exact right marketing. And that marketing was partially based on actually being on cartridge. Like...this isn't like pandemic era Switch 1 when everyone was playing it, these are the enthusiasts and they noticed this stuff. Whether that will matter in a couple of years, I dunno, but yes obviously that was part of why the marketing worked.

@kkslider5552000 I think it being on an actual cartridge is part of it selling well, but I don't think that's the only reason why the other games are under-performing. I think the reason why the other games aren't doing as well as the companies making them think they would've was because a lot of them don't really appeal to the players- and the few that did are more expensive on Switch 2 than they are on any other platform. With Yakuza 0, you can buy the game for cheaper on Steam right now than you could on Switch 2. It's 19.99 without a sale, while the Switch 2 version of the game is 49.99, and it comes with a shred of extra content that doesn't exactly make that price worth it in comparison.

Then you have the fact that all of these third party games are older titles. Things like Hogwarts Legacy, Bravely Default Remastered (which is basically just an ai upscaled 3DS game sold at the full price of what the game would've been at on the 3DS in the first place).

Then you take into account that we only know the physical sales numbers I'm pretty sure, and a majority of users are probably buying the digital copies of these games rather than paying the prices asked for with the Key Cards. That, mixed with how these are old games with some of them being sold at a higher price-point than they should be- along with the fact that none of these titles are really heavy hitters that people find themselves needing to purchase as they might've played them already, as well as the price of the console and the economic state of the world at the current, and you have this situation here. A situation where these games aren't selling very well, with Cyberpunk only selling marginally better than the others.

I'm not sure what's funnier about this, the implication that only people with special needs play older games and how obvious it is that you want to say the r-word but are too much of a coward to even do that.

@beat_me_up I don't think you're helping your case by saying that people who play games a certain way are special needs. It's still derogatory either way you cut it.