Rumour: Nintendo Switch To Start At £199.99 In United Kingdom, $329.99 In Canada

Memory =/= Storage

So... it won't include the 2 controllers? They must be bought apart? I hope the article is talking about controllers 3 and 4...

Manufactures in the UK are permitted to set their prices actually

Damn, that seems pretty good. Hopefully they won't have to compromise too much on power, but I'd be pretty happy with that as a price point.

If that £200 marker includes the docking station, tablet and the Joy Cons at the very least, all Nintendo would need is a killer line-up and it could be an incredibly fierce competitor.

However I am holding off belief because it seems a little too low. As right now it looks to be too good of a deal. Something is wrong.

This is great news if true. If the memory is say 32gb yet have an sd slot it could very well last a while until a 128gb card or even 256gb card is a bit more reasonable.

@Moroboshi876 I'm almost certain that the two 'Joycon' controllers will be included; they are a vital part of the actual unit.

It would frankly be hilarious if Nintendo only provided one lopsided Joycon controller on the side of the unit.

Manufactorers can not set prices in the US either. Manufactorers can only give a suggested price, retailors are free to charge whatever they want.

@Moroboshi876 There's no mention about controllers. It's called joy cons by the way

That seems too low IMO... If this is true and if Nintendo saying they won't loose money when selling the system is also true... Then it means that this will probably be a really low power console... Once again.
I'm very sad to read that... I would have been really happy to pay around 500€ for a real new powerful Nintendo console...
But well... It's probably not what consumers want...

I'm going to need to see some interesting games to justify an approximate $450-500AUD

Considering GAME tend to set their prices as high as possible, we can basically consider this to be RRP even if they can't outright call it that.
Although that is assuming that this is true... considering what we can expect to be inside each system, I would have expected the prices to be a bit higher.

Ok, I read it wrong, I didn't see they were referring to "Pro" controller. Thanks.

Well, I'm comfortable with the price, but I was pretty sure they said, months ago, that this time Nintendo wouldn't set the price of the console too low relying on software to make cash -Dreamcast style, which ended up being Sega's funeral- , and now it all seems to be pointing to the lowest possible price for the console itself. Weird, but welcome.

I'm very dubious about this, though it would be awesome if that was the price. Just doesn't feel right given the FX rate for GBP at present (which looks set to last) and the issues Nintendo have had with currency exchange rate losses in the past.

Still, one can hope! 😀

I'm a bit concern if this is the price. If so, the specs aren't going to be great.

January 12th

January 12th

January 12th.

Until then, I'll put these articles in a bucket of salt.

@Azooooz January 13th in the UK.

Will be best price for uk market

I know Nintendo like their prices to be accessible, but this seems way too good to be true. They said that they aren't going to sell it at a loss, yet the original 3DS was more expensive at launch, at about £230, with its lower specs.

Wouldn't be surprised though if GAME charge people for 7 consoles.

i really wonder what the specs are if the price is around 250.

Well, let's say you get the bundle with more storage and a game and then add a pro controller, that's £290.

Seems very competitive, perhaps unusually so, but maybe there are extras like sd cards and external battery packs for portable use that have to be purchased separately that keep the base price down.

Ultimately, it's very difficult to judge value without knowing the components. Nvidia is supposed to have given Nintendo a very good deal and the Shield K1 is also under £200.

I think that this is a very smart price range for the Switch. Nintendo trades off of its 'oooh, that looks cool- I want one!' style of marketing. If the price is right, this can create an incredibly successful product. £199.99 feels right to me. I think the Switch will be a success, provided Nintendo can ramp up the hype with more trailers, more social media presence and the prospect of lots of awesome games. I think the multiplayer aspect of the joy cons will become a major factor in terms of desirability.

£199 is what I was hoping for and expecting, and I also expect a game to be bundled in there for that price too. The main console (with Joy-Cons) and dock plus a game for £199 = ideal. If necessary, and indeed possible, I have no problem whatsoever with that bundled game being a digital version; indeed, this is what I would expect. A new Super Mario game as that bundled title—let's say pretty much just like the one in the Switch reveal trailer, assuming it's both awesome and new and exciting in some meaningful way—would tip it over the edge imo.

@Judgedean Well, anyone with a little bit of common sense and deductive reasoning already knows this thing is around Wii U power in terms of graphics, give or take a little, so if you're expecting that kind of power too then you will be fine. If you're expecting more power, say PS4 level of graphics, then the fault it yours for not paying attention to all the evidence that is contrary to your expectations. So says I.

I think Sony and Microsoft are also forcing that price down as they both cost around 239.99 - 249.99 with a game.

Funnily enough I dyed my hair pink with blue spots this morning, and can confirm this is not true. It is going to cost £299 in the UK and cheaper everywhere else in the world.

@3MonthBeef Not me; I was hoping for $250 and £200; and I still think there's no good reason I've seen yet for the system not being able to come out at that price.

£150 in the UK would probably be the truly magic number, imo, but I don't think Nintendo will go for that in a million years. I do think it has to be sub £200 to make its mark though, especially when it's going up against systems like the Xbox One and PS4 that you can now get in the UK for as low as £150 in certain deals (often with a bundled game or two).

The UK is a very hard market for Nintendo, but I think that with a £199 price point they could make some headway. It just depends on clear marketing, and the £199 SKU not being a complete waste of money like the basic Wii U bundle was.

I also think the £199 console should bundle in/pre-load a game, even if it is quite a basic one. The Wii Sports pack-in did a huge deal for the original Wii, and it's always confused me as to why Nintendo Land wasn't a standard pack-in with EVERY Wii U.

@yomanation Was just saying that memory isn't storage.

It's hard to know what the price will be without all the facts.

@dew12333 I doubt it'll cost more than PlayStation 4 at least not in the uk

@shaneoh Lol - no - that isn't how that money transfers.... lol

The xbone and ps4 are both £199 for XMAS this year with bundles around £249 and xbone clear out at £179

@shaneoh $329 in Canada means $321 in AUS

@UK-Nintendo And it ideally really shouldn't imo. Nintendo decided to release this thing mid-gen so now it has to make sure the price makes sense for a mid-gen release too, and going much higher than an Xbox One or PS4, which you can now get in certain deals for £150 with a bundled game, would just be silly imo. So, I think you're absolutely right. Now, let's just see if Nintendo is as wise as you. . . .

£200 seems the highest price it should be for the base version, honestly if it's more most people won't give it a chance.

That's a great price, and it probably means a very cheap price for the US considering the terrible state of the pound exchange rates right now. They might even go with $200.

@Lord I've seen both Xbox One and PS4 bundles for £150 with one or two games.

@ElGrego Good point!
However, still there's a possibility that Nintendo and Nvidea came up with a truly powerful chip with a low cost. Only time will tell

@Sakura Actually, I'd expect the £250 bundle to be the one that already comes with a Pro Controller to be honest. The £200 model should be the main console (with Joy-Cons) plus the dock and ideally a bundled game too (digital if necessary), and the £250 bundle should be the same as before but with the Pro Controller and maybe some extra storage or whatever. Or something like that.

Fantastic new if true, I was budgeting around £300 for the system alone but £250 with a game or a better version sounds really good.

@Moroboshi876 They didn't say that. They say they will not be selling at a loss. Which could mean the system is not very expensive to make. Considering they are partnering with nvidia, that is quite possible.

This is probably for the 500gb version. 😉

I think many are being very unrealistic.
It's a tablet with motion controllers that you can stream to the tv.
Handheld (Around $180), tablet ($100 to $1000) and console ($300) in one. And people complain that it could be around $250... Makes me wonder... We don't even know half of the features yet.

@vitalemrecords
Given gaming companies propensity for shafting Australians when it comes to price, I doubt we are going to see a fair exchange rate. I'm also going to want a couple of games to go with it, so $500 should cover a more expensive sku and a game.

@Niinbendo
Hardware that's already been out for a few years, their upgraded consoles are fetching closer to my price range

Less expensive than the Wii U? How? Lol

If you factor in the docking station,which in my opinion is Not just bit of plastic to power and hold the Switch,price tag of £199 worrys me alot.You Also must remember that Nintendo said they will not lose money on each Switch sold.I kown this sounds stuiped & I'll get lot angry comments, but iN some ways I'm hoping for a £250 to £300 price point.IF Nivdia's statement & huge hype & praise on Switch Insides and capabilities in and out are true, then ethier Nivdia are lying or Nintendo got one he'll of price on Its hardware specs.

@impurekind thanks. I guess a lot of people are expecting this to be more powerful than PlayStation 4.
Last time I wrote about this price I upset a lot of people

@gaby_gabito Well the Wii U has always been ridiculously expensive...even now Wii U's are still being sold for £250 with old games. By comparison, you can get a PS4 with the new CoD for £219, and bundles with other new releases like Dishonored 2 for £229. Nintendo really messed up the Wii U pricing :/

@ElGrego The Switch is basically a handheld version of the Wii U, we've known this since the Switch trailer debuted. As it stands it's a very powerful handheld but it's still a handheld so it's never going to be at the cutting edge because the most advanced GPUs and CPUs have a high power consumption, and that would mean the battery would have to be huge or the battery life would be extremely short. A console that drew 150W would need a 100,000 mAh battery at 1.5v, which might weight 3kg itself.

Basically any idea that the Switch would be very powerful should have been put to rest as soon as we found out it was a handheld. Sadly people cause confusion when they say the switch is a "home" device or that it's a hybrid. It's not, it's a handheld that can be plugged into the TV

That's not to say it's a bad thing. The Wii U is plenty powerful and if this rumour is correct it means that we get an amazing handheld at a fair price. There is more to gaming than graphics, some people would rather have the portability of the switch than something more powerful that isn't portable

I think £199 is a fair price given what we've seen so far. £249 with a game and more storage seems a bit more reasonable too and after paying that much for a basic Wii U I don't want to skimp on storage again. It also matches up to what we could expect based on the US price

@impurekind So your expecting The £199 price with a GAME As Well.I think your in lala land mate.Dream on I wouldn't want that that would send wrong message that Switch is cheap inside and out

@impurekind That would be nice! It doesn't look like the pro controller is included in that SKU from the rumour, but it's a rumour. I'm torn between thinking that it's essentially a tablet, so should be very affordable, and knowing that when base products are cheap, the extras are what rachets up the price.
However, I think it all sounds especially good because I was expecting it to be more.

@Billsama So when did they sell at a lost? I see I understood it wrong, but then they won't sell it at a lost compared with... when?

It seems like those really early rumours about Nintendo getting a really good deal with Nvidia had some truth behind it, considering Nintendo are not going to sell this at a loss. It'll be very interesting to see the hidden costs assuming this is correct, pay for online dare I say? We'all find out on the 12th January regardless.

As an American, goodness gracious, do I ever-so want to know the real USD price. But this rumor, wow. Time will tell!

£200 would be a very tempting price.

@chibichibi I desagree with you on this.Nintendo is selling it as Home console first and portable second especially with 3 hour battery life.It's Both, and up to individuals choice.To say it's Not got cutting edge A.I & hardwareGPU/CPU because it does not use hight power consumption is rediculess, it is new From ground and up and lower power can mea hight end to.As Nivdia stated time time Again.It's Wii U+ when docked but maybe Xbox one when docked.Who knows ethier way, it's Architecture is far newer tha Xbox and PS.

If the console launches for 200 Euros in Italy, count me firetrucking in.

Here is a fire truck so you know I've spelled "firetrucking" on purpose.

Releasing two SKU is a mistake. Wii U debacle should show Nintendo not to make that mistake again.

Early adopters do not buy gimped version of consoles.

@UK-Nintendo
My real opinion is that it will be a minimum of £250 in the UK, but will definitely be more than PS or Xbox.
I am just fed up with these wannabe's you want to ruin the surprise for people, just to make them more popular online. NL is as big of a sucker as many others by giving them 'air time'.

I won't buy Switch duriong its first year of release. Based on previous experience, Nintendo will cut the price within the first year of a console's release. Beside, I paid like $350 for Wii U during its first year of release, and see how dead it gets now. Nintendo never makes up for it.

Good price, but is it powerful enough to compete if it's so cheap?

A local preorder goes for 399 euros though.

@blinder2 A digital game basically costs zero to include in the bundle (assuming that's an option). I'd personally want/expect that with any new console launch in this day and age to be honest.

I've been expecting £250- £300 at the least.

If £200 is the base price, then either Nintendo and Nvidia found a way to optimize competitive power in a portable for a really good price, or the console is competitively weaker than any of us were expecting.

Or that they've been gouging us with previous systems and portables for a while now, and this is them breaking even.

Nintendo said they wont sell the Switch at a loss, but they never said they would make a huge profit off of console sales either, so who knows?

If that's the price for UK/EU, then it's going to do very well as long as the right line-up is there and it is as fully featured as possible.

Roll on 12/01/17, I'm super excited to see what else Switch holds in store for us.

@DTFaux It's not going to be a powerhouse, but I still hold firm to the belief that it will perform better than a lot of people are expecting (i.e. it may not be a graphical monster, but it's perfectly capable of running modern engines for those 'plats).

So what is this price in U.S. dollars? I don't know how Euros translate into USD.

$300 for Switch still quite deal for me. Same price as Wii U. As long comes in White or Blue color, sturdy material, long lived battery , great library games, Free Region (If ultimately happens) it quite enough to make me purchase quickly. But while waiting for price drop, I can buy the game first. My strategy before buy the video game machine.

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I'm assuming the $329 Cad will be just the system? That's not a great price considering the Wii U was $299 with a game for a long time. I'm guessing the increased storage and game will be $399.

"GAME is now aware of that cost and has set its price accordingly."

well i just looked on GAME and they have it for £999.99 so i don't think they have adjusted the price yet

still if it's £199.99 then i could actually afford that day one

It would be a brilliant price! For all the doubters, we never knew how much profit Nintendo had from each Wii U sold.
In this case, to get to such a low price they don't have to sell at a lose, they just have to sell at near cost (or having a minimal profit from each unit sold). They aren't lying.... just telling the truth from a certain point of view.

Plus, the rumor comes from Laura Dale, who also leaked the announcement of the Switch, so it definitively has some weight to it. January can't come soon enough!

It was never going to be powerful enough to compete with current-gen systems and it doesn't really need to be. It's primarily going to be competing in the portable gaming space, the only competition there is phone games and the Vita which may as well not even exist outside of Japan at this point. No matter how underpowered it is, it's still going to be a vast improvement on the 3DS and by pricing it that low, you're going to get a lot of people on board early (which is a very good thing).

Sounds to cheap, with all the rumours doing the rounds. I'll reserve judgment until we've had the full reveal

@Iggy-Koopa Shoot, I'd be fine with that. Considering we've been hitting the point of diminishing returns for a while now, being comaprable [if not slightly less] to current consoles in a portable would be A-OK with me.

Well I'm assuming 250 USD for just the console/dock. 300 w/ game. 350 for a premium bundle including pro controller and game. Just a thought.

@impurekind Wow - did I touch on something sensitive to you? Are you a snowflake generation where you're easily offended? All we know is that it will be using a custom Tegra chip. Consumers will be hoping it's based on X2 architecture but if this price is correct, it's probably going to be based on X1. I don't expect the Switch to be PS4/XB1 power wise but at least halfway between the WiiU and XB1. £200 you would be expecting the console and docking station - nothing else. See, this is how grown ups reply. Oh and maybe get "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - it's only £4.88 for a hardcover - so says Amazon.

People have to remember that this is a tablet console. The specs will be similar to that of the shield which is around $200 for the smaller model. Nintendo probably still stands by the "if you need more storage then by it separately" mentality since only really hardcore gamers actually buy extra (unless you buy all eshop I suppose). It probably also just comes with the basic controllers as well, with the obvious bundle (or better model) coming with probably the add on grips and stuff. I think $250 is a great price for just the console. $300 or $350 will probably get you the extras that gamers want. Will there be 2 models? Judging by how the Wii U went, I doubt they would go that far. They would probably just add additional storage in the bundle (through sd cards or something).

This is excellent news ( if true lol)

@FullbringIchigo The article is cited as a rumour; nothing has been confirmed yet.

£250 with a game would be an amazing price, Im already getting it day one no matter the cost but this price would make that decision easier.

@shaneoh You're looking at more like $330 AUD. You don't know what you're talking about.

i am still mad at the spot given to the "switch pro controller", people's bias perception aside what is wrong with the joycon+joyGrip combo?
Only because it doesn't looks like a ps3/360 controller doesn't mean there anything is wrong with it.
people though the same with the gamecube controller back in the days and it ends up being the best controller ever that the xbox360 had to take inpiration on to achieve its own one.

£250 bundle sounds good too me.

Its not outrageous, but still think its to expensive. 250 Euro it should be!

There's just too little information to comment on the likelihood of this rumor. At that price, though? I might find myself buying a second one for the family much quicker than I first imagined.

Also, I look at it this way: If the price is higher, it means it will be more powerful and more directly competitive with PS4 and XB1. If it's about the range of this rumor, I'm going to be relying on the multiple Switches to game together as a family because that will be a much more important draw to the system.

Either way, I'm out $500 and probably happy about it.

@Moroboshi876 The wii U was sold at a loss. And I think also the wii on the first year.

If this is true, it'll be great for sales. Cheaper than a Wii U was at launch. Not much more than the Wii launch price. In which case, pre-order to avoid disappointment due to shortages.

Seems legit. The £199 price point would translate to $250, only for the base, and at about $315 at the £249.99 (as of today) which might be pushing it, in the US market at least.

I'm sorry but that sounds too good to be true, was expecting £300 tbh.

£200 is very cheap, but a good price if they want to be competitive with Sony and Microsoft, as it seems the PS4 and XBO are getting better bundles every other week.

I hope this doesn't come with a significant sacrifice to the core system (power, battery, etc.!)

Wow! I'm taking this with a grain of salt though. Would be cool if it was true though!

Looks like TRU removed the listing since then.

$329 CDN isn't exactly a great price. I'm probably gonna sit back and wait see what launch titles there are besides Zelda Breath of the Wild.

If this is true, I really hope that this means the New 3DS will make a permanent price drop.

Looks like a lot of people are confused. The following is CAD

New 3DS XL : $230
Switch : $330
Consoles at launch : $450~$600

I think it is very fair given what the Switch is. But I want to see the software first. The Wii and Wii U weren't that great. Console-bounds stuff, delays in menus (even settings), limited/bad online support, etc.

@Grandpa_Pixel Did you read somewhere that it could come without them? I mean, I was pretty sure from the revela video and every thing else that the dock and the joycons are part of that base model. Without the joycons it would be just a tablet and without the dock it wouldnt be a home console.. so yeah Im pretty sure that will be included. you can look at all the promo pics too.. extra accessories are usually not included or are otherwise stated in a small disclaimer as "sold separately", not the case here either.

@LiamR That's not entirely true. RAM and ROM are both memory, albeit different types of memory. These days, when people say "memory" that generally refers to RAM, but referring to ROM or "storage" as memory is not empirically wrong.

@Emperor-Palpsy yeah i know, that's why i said "if"

would be nice if it was though wouldn't it?

That seems like pretty reasonable pricing (if this is indeed true), but as usual I'll wait for the official details before getting too excited. This seems almost too good to be true, so I'm a bit dubious.

These UK prices would suggest the Switch will be $249/ $299 in the US, which would be a very good price. Lines up with the MCV rumors from a white back suggesting that the NX/Switch would be "cheaper than expected."

I can't wait until January...

I am expecting 300-400 USD personally and will have 800 put aside for March (still not sure if I'll get it day one though...I kinda need a new washing machine...sometimes being an adult sucks.).

Sounds nice, but I'll believe it when I see it.

@DTFaux Me too. Far too much emphasis is placed on what's 'on paper' as opposed to real world applications. For all we know, the tech could quite easily push the numbers right up there (while not hitting Pro/Scorpio as some would wish).

From the article:

"This would in theory put the USA price of the system at approximately $249.99 and $299.99 (This is based off conversions, not any insider information)."

I think these prices would work, but I worry about giving the consumer a choice yet again after what happened to Wii U given it's choice of $300 8GB no game, which nobody bought so it went away in the US fairly quickly, and $350 32GB + Nintnedo Land, which nobody wanted that game so it languished on shelves for 4 years until it recently died. So I think they need to pick one - sell it for $249 or $299, don't give people a chance to stop and think and talk themselves out of buying 1.

The only exception to that is a "Special" bundle like they did w/ WW HD, and Sony has done w/ PS4 and Uncharted 4 and FFXV. I think that big old toaster wall would make for a nice billboard for a limited edition Breath of the Wild.

So, $249 no game, $299 special limited edition Zelda bundle. I can't find any Zelda artwork but this FMaicom model is a nice example.

From NeoGaf:

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Seems like GAME have denied the claims, but there was a slight apology from management for the overall tone of the original email.

Interesting that they felt the need to respond.....

@Damo

If Game is selling it for £200 then that means the RRP is actually £150. Great news!

I don't believe it.

If Nintendo isn't selling this thing at a major loss, there's no way it's retailing at a sub-$300 price. High-end tablets just aren't that cheap.

IF this is true, though, and the the Switch launches with a $250 price tag... I'm there day one. That price would be utterly insane.

@Snargledon lower specs five years ago.. the NX has low specs too compared to the actual generation.. a mobile processor that is a bit better than the Tegra on the shield + 4 GB of RAM are not state of the art technology.. Nintendo consoles never were. But the price comes with a big chunk of earnings for Nintendo.. if the NS is hacked day one.. Nintendo would earn a lot just off consoles.

@booker_steve
128 GB cards are already really cheap considering what they are. 200 and 256 GB cards do indeed need to come down in price though.

@Ralizah The Switch will be getting tons of JRPGs and Visual Novels.. specially vita ports.. since it will be easy to port to..

GAME.CO.UK confirmed the price isn't that. 999 as placeholder again.

https://twitter.com/LaurakBuzz/status/798172287040155648

Probably would get bundle if it´s with the new 3d mario or Breath of the wild. Extra storage is also nice.

So we can assume that the £199 model will be 16GB and the £249 will be 32GB with a game bundled in. Basically pricing the console at the same price as an xbox one and PS4.

Now Nintendo will have to do a lot of marketing to sell this device as its less powerful but has the benefit of being the most powerful portable console that is their selling point they need to market this as a portable console and not try confusing people by insisting its a home console.

Focusing the marketing on this being the most powerful portable console with home console like games on the go will stop people directly comparing it to the PS4/Xbone which is what they need to do as the second people start comparing the Switch to the others people will see more powerful machines at the same or cheaper cost.

@sjredo Not so much confirmation as 'someone leaked something, we'd better pretend it's all a lie!'.

'GAME have not stated at any point that it will be retailing the Nintendo Switch at £199.99' - which is exactly why it's called a leak! As for that threat later in their email... This PR dude is just terrible.

If the more expensive bundle comes with more memory, it kind of makes you wonder about the models themselves...like Wii U...8GB or the 32GB one. Something tells me that the system won't have a lot of space, but I hope they allow it to where you can swap out SD cards (whatever kind) or even add an external Hard Drive to give it more space, especially if there will be a lot of downloads on the E-Shop only. Back to the statements, $200 is a good deal and the extra $120, makes you wonder what comes with that bundle, besides the extra storage...I'm thinking, the pro controller and a cheap-o-demo-type game (something like Wii Sports or Nintendo Land)...if they bundle it with a top notch game like Zelda or Mario, then I'm in! Anyways, I hope they really advertise the system so that it sells well, and another Wii U generation does not happen again...I'm still deciding on getting this at launch, or waiting until the following year for it.

I'm REALLY worried the 250 USD price (if true) could mean the console is not as powerful as Nintendo is making it out to be... they've already said it'll even sell at a profit... I know ps4/Xone levels are not realistic, but are we looking at WiiU ~ power? If that's the case I don't really see it running Skyrim Remastered...

Hopefully 300 ~ 350 is the final price.

Day 1 if true

I'll be fine with $250! I hope it's true. 😃

Power isn't really an issue IMO. If it runs at 720p60 in portable then 1080p60 when docked it's a winner. The dock might offer additional cooling so the processor can be over clocked to manage it.

I want to know more about the joycons though. Are the rechargeable or powered by 1x AA for example?

Sounds good to me. Hopefully my friend at GameStop can set one aside when they go on sale.

@sjredo I've followed rumours for this system for a while now and I just can't agree that it should be $300+. That's even more expensive than the Wii U, and speaking at least from the market I'm most used to in the UK the ship sailed years ago for Nintendo to be the place to go for premier high-end gaming. From what I can tell it is the same for the rest of the world. The idea of playing 'AAA' games on-the-go is nice, but $300+ is a considerable sum of money for most people and they are not going to throw that down on a Nintendo system when the PS4 Pro is a similar price and has every multiplatform game worth a damn.

Hate to reference * that * Frozen song but my advice is just let it go.

I think entry price of £200 would be great tbh. They need to come out fighting. I'm going to get the bundle though. And if £250 to £300 sounds like a good deal to me. Hoping it includes zelda, pro controller and the amiibos.

Those would be very good prices. It would indicate that Nintendo will sell the console as cheap as just to cover production costs. While not taking losses per console sold, they wouldn't make profits either. That would keep the consumer prices reasonable. The profits would come by game and accessory sales.

I really doubt it will only cost $329.99, that is just a place holder price, basically meaning they figure it will be that price and higher.

@Shinion
I will never let Nintendo go. Never !
I will choose Switch instead PS4 Pro. I don't care with AAA Western games. I only care with Nintendo games , Japanese third party that contribute cute and fun games also a few Cartoonish Western games. I'm moving on from Sony, say hello to Nintendo and be together forever.

@RadioHedgeFund
Ah...I have same question too about Joy Cons. Are they use AA battery or rechargeable lithium battery ?

@Anti-Matter and that's perfectly fine, I'm just saying that to the average Joe the Sony/PS brand is where it is at at least as far as this 'generation' is concerned. Who knows though, Sony aren't infallible and as the PS3 launch showed they are more than capable of messing up but Nintendo have to price this thing for right here right now and right now most people would rather spend $350 to get a machine to play Red Dead Redemption 2 rather than Breath of the Wild.

But the good thing is that in all likelihood that won't be the state of things as the Switch will only cost $250 at most. Good thing for us with taste eh?

@ElGrego I agree with you. I would be willing to pay more for a more powerful system as well. But if the Switch is in the 1 teraflop range I think it will be enough.

@Azooooz Typically I would agree with you but after the rumors about the physical system being true, there may be something to these rumors as well.

"This rumour comes hours after retail giant Toys R Us posted a $329.99 price on its Canadian site. That translates to around $242 US dollars."

First I heard that Canadian prices can translate to US$.

At this price point my new theory is that it's a mobile gaming system with the added feature of connecting to a base for TV play. I don't think it's going to have the guts to compete with the other two systems directly but it's going to be the strongest mobile gaming system created at the point of launch. To be honest I would be okay with that. I play my 3DS more then any home console...even when I'm at home; and having the ability to play on a TV is just an awesome plus for me. I wish they would have released all the details/spec prior to the holiday season though.

Send me a postcard once they make a Nintendo Switch - Xenoblade Chronicles ctd. bundle, that is the only reason for me to buy one, same with the Wii U, I only got it because of Xenoblade Chronicles X, I play to this day from time to time.

£199.99 is a reasonable price. Console, a couple of games and maybe a joycon grip for £300. Nice.

@Judgedean Actually, I think you're reply was very much like a hurt child—trying to sound like a calm adult who's not weeping and raging inside.

Any informed person should at this point be pretty clued-in as to where the Switch's power is almost certainly going to fall and how that basically sits pretty well in line with this rumoured price now too.

That's all I'm saying; no need to cry a river over it. lol

I'm stunned Nintendo might still be pushing the "superior" model SKU after the Wii U (which IIRC died rather quickly). Now a bundle with pack in stuff? That I can grok. I've missed the practice and it's a way better ask on people at launch than 'how about paying less for a model that's more poop at it's job?' That's what mid-gen upgrades are for.

And getting it for $250, that is huge. That's what 3DS kicked off with back when they thought it's purely visual trick would sell product. It's a high start for portables, but generous for a modern console. Considering it's performance will be decent for modern consoles, but generous for portables, I'd call it a nice middle ground.

So it's probably 250 EUR in Europe..which means I'll probably import it from the UK lol. Thanks Brexit!

I think that's good enough. It's not the Wii's magic £180 but its pretty close and perfect for those gamers that don't give a damn about storage and downloads. Remember, the Wii U started at a lot more and even the original 3DS launched at £230 (Till the price cut).

Big question is, what is the free game? The Wii Sport/Nintendo Land of the system or do game mean pick any launch game?

If that is true, that is pretty nice.

$250 US at launch looks good.

Honestly if this is the launch price around 250US then I just hope US retailers are taking preorders...
this is good news for Nintendo and Nvidia.

@RadioHedgeFund it will be triple a batteries. This is Nintendo

@impurekind Black Friday sale starts soon - you seem in need of that book (not being sarcastic as you seem to be taking it). Then you might have some real friends and toughen up in the process.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Time for the jok.... news... of the day, straight from Tokyo. Since its from the future, there were some graphical artefacts transmitted in red, please ignore that.

Nintendo NX/Switch News from the future

Too early? I actually like the console idea...lets see.

That would be an amazing price!

Wow. $329 Canadian probably means $299 in the US. Which is definitely a competitive price. I was expecting $350 ($400 if they're stupid).

$300 though? That's what's up. If somehow by a miracle it's $250 though it's gonna be a frenzy.

@vitalemrecords
Yes, because as a yank, you've clearly experienced how things are in this country.
The Wii U premium launched at $429.95AUD and $349.99USD with the exchange rate at 0.95947, however, lets be fair and take the exchange rate from six months prior at a whopping 0.9497. So if we are given a fair exchange rate we should have payed.....

$370AUD.

Well that didn't happen. $450AUD without purchasing an additional game seems like a rather reasonable estimate. I'm not expecting Nintendo to break the trend and give us a fair suck of the sav.

Edit: The story is pretty much the same with the 3DS, with a similar exchange rate, $350AUD and $250USD

I don't understand why people are worried about the power level of the Switch. Insiders have stated that it's CPU is greater than the Xbox One and PS4 and that the Switch is capable of handling ports from PS4 and the Xbox One.

Okay, that's the price I was looking for, now it just has to have quality games and it will be the best Nintendo handheld for a long time. I'm getting a little hyped now

@sjredo I would take what GAME says very lightly in all honesty.
They seemed far too quick to back pedal their legal action threat against Laura Kate Dale. I think these prices are correct just due to the fact that GAME wouldn't have threatened anything if they were incorrect.

I could still be incorrect, but hey, GAME wouldn't have cared if the price leak didn't hold any weight to it.

@Malakai What kind of "insiders" stated that a portable gaming device, which is partly relying on battery power for its use and selling point, would feature a CPU that is "greater" than the X-One/PS4? Thats funny, but no, wont happen.

A Gameboy is also "capable" of handling "ports" from the Arcade. I assume you expect something like a 1:1 port of a PS4 game (major title) on THAT device? Nah, never ever. Price & technology is just not there. You will get some "features" like perhaps FULL-HD resolution (or higher) but that doesnt mean it has the same graphical/cpu power overall. The gap will be always there, its part of Nintendos way of trying to sell "innovative" devices, not high-end ones.

@8itmap_k1d Yes. Oh my GOD yes!!! I totally agree. xD
GAME love their premium prices so that they can rip people off and so I bet that the official RRP is precisely £150.00.

I would be truly impressed if Nintendo was able to price this system at $250. It's a pretty powerful device that might be able to run some popular third party games on the go. I know technology advances faster and faster as time goes on, but I'd still be impressed to see such a low price point.

Regardless, they need to have a $300 bundle with a Mario game included. That would push sales like crazy. As long as there is a $300 bundle with a worthwhile game included, I'll be picking this system up next summer... all the money I saved up for a PS4 is now going toward this (I'll be picking a PS4 up later down the road)!

@Judgedean You keep trying to have some kind of affect as you imagine it. lol

@BiasedSonyFan You're living in a dream if you think it's going to put out visuals that are three times better looking than those on Wii U. And, to be very clear, I'm saying nothing about the technical specifications of the actual hardware—I do not give a crap about the technical specs in this particular regard—I'm saying you'll be getting graphics that are basically Wii U level (as in the on-screen visuals); and that's all I've been saying. Now, let's see if I'm right or wrong shall we. . . .

@BiasedSonyFan Was that link supposed to point somewhere meaningful?

@Captain_Gonru Mario Day? Is it his anniversary? I'm not really keeping tabs on stuff like that...

@Captain_Gonru I've seen that come up a few times since "March" was announced but it makes too much sense for Nintendo to do it. Plus, you know as well as anyone when they say "March" they mean the very end of March, so Friday 24 - Sunday 26, at which point they'll be going for $500 on eBay.

But if they do release it on Friday March 10, kudos from me, a job well done.

@ThanosReXXX "MARIO" "MAR10" Think about it.

@rjejr Aw man, REALLY? That's almost as bad of a theory as thinking that Trump could actually become presi... oh, wait...

@ThanosReXXX

In case Switch gets delayed a few weeks, here's what you need to know about April 20th.

http://time.com/4292844/420-april-20-marijuana-pot-holiday-history/

Though starting Jan 21 every day will be 420 for about 60 mil Americans, and still counting in Michigan.

@rjejr Yeah, I can imagine. That or a combo of tranquilizers and painkillers...

My smoking days are far behind me. You could probably vividly imagine the easy access I had to 420 over here, living in one of the most liberal cities on the face of the Earth, but I outgrew it, and decided that alcohol, mostly beer and rum, is my poison of choice.

@ThanosReXXX Hard to say if I outgrew out, or just the thought of my sons growing up "stoners like their dad" wasn't more of a motivating factor. I'm all for people doing it legally, but it probably needs to start at like 25 or something, stuff destroys brain cells like nobody's business.

@rjejr No more than alcohol or living in a modern society filled with smog and processed food products would do to you, but wanting to be a responsible parent is a good reason to quit, and an admirable one.

I'm afraid I have to confess that I started WAY before I was 25, though, but I've quit all forms of smoking since I was 35.

@impurekind With you replying to me, it just proves you are a sensitive snowflake. Please, you're just embarrassing yourself now. Just take on board what I said about improving your life - you will thank me later on.

@Judgedean lol

@Captain_Gonru No such issues here in Amsterdam. People of all ages and walks of life go to the coffee shop, and it's perceived as any other legal addiction, so far as I'm concerned, it's not really an age thing. More a situation thing, much like @rjejr already illustrated...

@Captain_Gonru "if I went looking for it"

Looking? All you have to do is ask, it's like being a Trump supporter, half the people you know did it, but nobody wants to talk about it.

Not that you should, I'm just saying it's probably ridiculously easy. All those 20 year olds you see every day who are working retail, 80% of them use, the other 20% deal. I think the remaining people in this thread not us probably should be.

This is a great price. Nintendo games don't need that much power for graphics, just look at Mario Kart 8, it run a steady 1080p 60 fps. PS4 and Xbox struggle with their photo realistic graphics. Western 3rd party won't exist so I hope they have partnerships with Japanese developers just like they do with the 3DS

@Captain_Gonru As I said before "not that you should". Don't want to go getting yourself fired obvs, I was just pointing out it probably would be easy if you wanted too. You could just swing by a high school. Obligatory - that's why they call them "high" school joke.

BTW - Before I became a home maker I was working on my PhD in Sociology, my MA thesis was a 10 year study on mj habits of adult males. This stuff was basically my life's work, I look at it more from that perspective, my view from the ivory tower, than feet on the ground.

I thought it would by £299.99 for sure!

In the US, $250 with no game or $299 w/one game is a smart launch price. Going $50 less would be ideal for mass adoption imo, but that might be too low to make a profit. It would help if the Virtual Console started pretty robust out the gate.

@shaneoh There's your problem. You don't know the exchange rate. It is 1:1.33
Not the bogus numbers you came up with.
That will solve your issues.
You're welcome.
Maybe if you weren't such a dole-bludger, eh mate?

@vitalemrecords
I know what the exchange rate is, I have to input it into our sales software. If you stopped for a moment and actually thought about what I have typed, you would realise that the exchange rate has no bearing on what we are charged. When the Australian dollar was fetching 94 US cents, why were we paying $450 for a Wii U to your $350 if the exchange rate was relevant? Answer me that

@ironside1911 A game dev that leaked the Wii and GameCube spec on Neogaf. You have to realize that x86 are using netbook level CPUs in APU. Modern ARM CPU can out-bench them.

@BiasedSonyFan I didn't say more powerful than, I wrote that it should be able to handle ports from Xbox One and PS4. Further more, NVida GFLOPS are greater than AMD GFLOPS. (roughly 4:3) Also, GFLOPS aren't everything when I comes to gaming performance.

edited: typo.

@BiasedSonyFan My bad. That was a typo in my previous post about GFLOPS. I wanted to write "...GFLOPS aren't everything when it comes to gaming performance"