Topic: Nintendo Switch 2 Predictions

Seeing Sony release a PS5 bundle with 2024's Astro Bot (a $60 game) included for only $449 (disc)/$399 (digital) has me optimistic that my $499 Switch 2 prediction is completely wrong.

Surely at this point it's got to be cheaper?

@Grumblevolcano $499 for switch 2?!! 😟 i am not super knowledgeable about the topic of prices and inflation and stuff, but isnt nintendo all about being cheap but not too cheap? im guessing $399 at the most honestly haha. thats a great ps5 deal though, sony is really trying to keep up!

I'd be okay with a Switch 2 + a game for $499.99 + tax. Anything more and I'll be looking way harder at that Astro Bot bundle, assuming they're still selling it in a few months.

@Grumblevolcano No way the Switch 2 would be at $499 unless tariffs do affect the price or they release a 1TB model.

Honestly Switch 2 game bundles should come with the physical game included instead of a download code.

While both the PS5 and Xbox Series X are $499, Sony and Microsoft also offer cheaper options with the $449 PS5 Digital (which used to be $399), $299 Xbox Series S, an $449 Xbox Series X Digital.

There is no way the Switch 2 will be $499 without any cheaper alternative(s). If Sony/Microsoft were concerned enough about $499 to offer cheaper alternatives, so will Nintendo.

@Grumblevolcano
Yea, there's no way Switch 2 will be $499. That would be suicide.

It's gonna be $399.

Have to agree $499 and it's standalone now way...better be physical MarioKart9 for that ....

My big concerns about Switch 2 pricing are the tariffs and that Switch OLED is already $349. Those 2 factors are why I thought it would be $499 (just the console, no games).

Switch if US market isn't coming from China but Vietnam and other non-tariff affect countries so that isn't going to change the price. I suspect there will be a drop in price with Switch 2 coming out in May 15 if that happens. So they can still have OLED at $349 then drop when Switch 2 comes out. So they get more Switch cleared out of inventory and start bringing in more Switch 2 into markets in masses.

@SwitchForce There's been suggestions of the Trump administration putting blanket tariffs on semiconductors, regardless of what country they're manufactured in. If they go through with it Nintendo might not be able to escape tariffs.

@IceClimbers FYI, if you watched YT there is a mention the already have units in the US? You can't tariff if they are already there.

@SwitchForce
YouTube with the old news again. I would point out that having an earlier shipment to avoid tariffs will do nothing to the longer term price. It'd be a cost cutting and risk mitigation strategy in the sort term sure but it won't and can't be something that will change the RRP in the medium to long term

If the tariffs land, and remember the US is talking universal tariffs now not just China, the US RRP will reflect the post tariff price. Even if they manage to get some shipments in early. Because they're not going to have the pricing reflect the specific taxation that specific unit was exposed to. It'll be the aggregate, long term, stable RRP with consideration given to the risks, costs, margins, tax, exchange rates, supply, demand, competition etc, ect

edit: also might I suggest that shipments going around already has more to do with Nintendo's started strategy of having ample stock at launch and was planned well in advance. It may well have little at all to do with the Orange Baby acting on their long term and naive obsession with protectionism

@Grumblevolcano
Yea they're still milking the OLED, but that price is gonna drop like a rock after the Switch 2 Direct.

They started selling some Switch Lite bundles in the UK and EU without AC Adapters, so we might see them continue to sell the Switch Lite after the Switch 2 comes out.

And if they will release Switch in May 15 given April 2 news and San Francisco Nintendo Storefront May 15 is so obvious at this point. They can't release May 22 that is Donkey Kong Theme parks. They will not do this if they want Switch 2 hype. After May 15 or before they most likely will make a Ghost Price Drop Switch OLED and put Switch 2 at $350 and Drop OLED to $250 range or so. This would make Switch OLED get sold faster.

Yeah, they definitely don't want Switch 2 to conflict with Donkey Kong.......

If they do it twice in a row, I feel like that is a sign. Although does it make it more or less likely we get an actually new Donkey Kong game on Switch 2. 🤔

Wouldn't launching Switch 2 in May turn Super Nintendo World Orlando and the Nintendo San Francisco store into big security risks?

@Grumblevolcano I’d expect a mid or late June release to be more likely, especially since kids get out of school around that time.