Rumour: Target Will Sell Nintendo Switch For $299.99, 15 Titles Possible At Launch

Was hoping for $250 as that would suggest approx £200 launch in the U.K like the Wii was (£179.99 if I remember). Would also mean I could grab a few launch titles with it.

Maybe the 15 placeholders include 5 versions of Breath of the Wild with a different amiibo packed with each one.

@FX102A with the value of the pound tanking, perhaps it will end up closer to parity with US price

really hope it isn't $300. I could easily afford it don't get me wrong, but I could use that spare $50 for a game. Unless that is a $300 bundle that comes with extra stuff like the wii u

I hope it's no more than €250. Realistically, if it's to have any chance of success it shouldn't be.

Thank god tax time is here.

Unless that $300 tag is for a premium console with pack-in games, it'll be a rerun of WiiU pricing problems, since that's what an Ecks Bawks Wan costs with a pack-in game or two in many places.

Oh, sure, except this time we have a unique selling point in the megaportability. Hmm. I'd still prefer it was a $250 tag and corresponding foreign equivalents.

Hmm; Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, MK8, GOTG Telltale, Lego City, Just Dance, Elder Scrolls, NBA 2K, Rabbids... That's 10... Yookaleke? FIFA? Skylanders?

well i think UK pricing could be anywhere between £200-£250. depending on how much UK retailers feel like screwing us over. Cough cough "Game"

These dAys are GOING to bE the end of me

@AlexSora89 Two more days my friend. Just two more days

Tomorrow guys!!!!

@liljmoore
I know, but... I took "threatening letter classes" just to properly express my frustration, as you can see. Now I'm fluent in Threatening Letter.
The downside is how hard it is on your throat. That, and talking like GLaDOS most of the time, while also looking as beaten-up as Diddy Kong in the infamous Donkey Kong Country game over screen.

@MrGawain

Mania, Tekken 7, UMvC, Madden, and FIFA

Can we just wait until we get the official price? We literally only have a few more days now. All of this speculation is stupid.

@Damo Yerp, I'm smelling a £250 price point for UK if its $300 in US

Hopefully one from 15 first Switch titles is my targeted game. I'm not gonna day one purchase, I need 3 months later after soft launch to learn the games trending. Nintendo still owe us proper Animal Crossing games.

That's a good price, and that launch library is huge!

I'm just looking forward to tommorrow night. 250 sounds fair... if there is a bundle package with more memory, I'll preorder that one.

@YoshiTails That's why I said £200, maybe £210 like the 3DS launch price was. I know they'll try anything or use any excuse to maximise launch price but hopefully they need to know that pricing it too high will just result in failure.

In my opinion the Switch should be around $250 in US (maybe a little cheaper) and £199 in the UK with a bundled digital game. Anything over £250 in the UK would be creating potential trouble imo.

£200 or less and its a day 1 buy and it'll sell like hot cakes

If we're talking closer to £250 - £300 then I fear we'll have another Wii U on our hands

Unless of course it comes bundled with Super Mario Galaxy 3 (or whatever the new 3d Mario game is going to be called) in the same way the SNES game bundled with Super Mario World

@Nintendo_Ninja
Well, some of those could be releasing later. I seriously doubt the only games they'll be selling are games releasing day one.

@dparmar005 agreed. Also, loved how Game during the launch of the Wii and it's rarity started selling Wii packages including the worst games bundled in for roughly £300. Real underhanded.

@Marios-love-child
"If we're talking closer to £300 then I fear we'll have another Wii U on our hands"

Well, it wouldn't be $350/ £300 it would be $300/£250 so right there, right off the bat it would still be $50 cheaper than Wii U launched at.

And let's face it, this system is far more sexy, modern and desirable than Wii U ever was. So I don't think we could have another Wii U on our hands. Even if it's $100 more than we thought, it still would be the same price Wii U launched at, and even then it would likely outpreform Wii U on account of it just being a more appealing system dollar for dollar.

Of course think $250/ £200 would be better but, even if this article proves true, it would still be cheaper than Wii U released at and it's still a far more appealing system. So the odds of a Wii U repeat are pretty slim, even if this proves true

All previous rumors point to the Switch being around $250, so I'll stick with that. I doubt they want a repeat of the Wii U's launch.

What I don't think is that it will launch under $250 or $249. They aren't going to sell at a loss either.

I'm getting married in May so I won't be getting at launch sadly, I just can't, regardless of the price. I'm really looking forward to the big reveal though, I'll be up in the early hours for it, can't wait!

I feel like a bunch of people are just throwing out rumors before the Switch presentation, in hopes that at least one will be confimed and they can say they were right.

Too much, unless it comes with enough extra goodies. You can get a PS4 and XBONE with a game or two for $250, so why would nintendo try to sell a new console for more than that? If they want it to sell, they need to lower the price...even if that means not making a huge profit at first, you'll always earn the profit deduction back with people buying games and store downloads, so it would just be better that way...at least nintendo would then have the audience they need for it. This was something they should have done with the Wii U...if that price got lowered, like Microsoft did with the XBONE, even taking no profit from it, they'll make it back, it could have sold a lot better than what it did. Guess the presentation will tell us more, but people won't be happy if the price is too great, and why would it be the same price as the Wii U (which will be dead in the water).

After the Wii U I think I'd rather them not go the 2 price route, they don't know how to do it well. Wii U at $299 w/ 8GB and no game wasn't worth the price. 8GB, for a home console, as if it were a phone, geeze. Then $349 for 32GB and Nintendo Land and not 1 but 2 docks. So too high a cost for something people didn't really want or need.

So, if they do have $250 and $300 hopefully both packages are compelling at their price points. They both need decent storage and a base game, the more expensive can have a 2nd game and a Pro controller maybe.

Sony didn't do a very good job with its Pro model this holiday either, I think Slim outsold it 4x in every region. 2 more days.

Having a high ranking target employee as a close friend might help me get some switch details. Then again, doesn't everyone have that one insider to tell us this kind of info from a retailer

@JaxonH

I agree it's almost certainly a lot more of an appealing system, you can tell that much from the online buzz since the reveal trailer.

I just hope Nintendo price it sensibly so that its almost an impulse buy like the Wii was £179.99 at launch)

Sony & Microsoft are practically giving away PS4 and Xbone nowadays so to stand a chance it needs to be priced well below them so £200 would be perfect IMO, if a game is bundled for that price then even better

Its all hypothetical of course at this stage and this time on Friday we should have all the answers

I'd prefer one price point for the console. No "base" or "premium" packages. Nintendo needs a simple and clear message at launch.

@Jimmy_G_Buckets I've two children at school, work full-time & I'll have been with my wife to be for exactly fifteen years on the day we get married, my gaming time is extremely limited these days & that's fine by me, but I can still follow & be excited for a new Nintendo hardware launch... but aye, thanks for the, um, 'pro tip'

@liljmoore That's probably why Nintendo is releasing it in March... in time for the tax returns.

@BensonUii At current exchanges the 25000 ¥ supposed Japan price would be approx £180 / $215; of course it's never a straight conversion so I think a £200-£210 / $250 sounds reasonable.

As long as they learnt from the 3DS launch; then again that was also down to piss poor launch titles.

@Dangerous25 I apologize if you read my comment as a sort of diss. I assume you prioritize your life well. I wasn't trying to offend you. Perhaps it read that way and I deleted my initial post. Best wishes.

@Jimmy_G_Buckets it's very difficult sometimes to figure out the exact intention behind a comment... & yeah your comment niggled me just a touch, as you could obviously tell by my touchy reply! I very much appreciate you clarifying, thank you, no harm done and please accept my apologies for my reaction. Take care!

In 48 hours we will know for sure. Price isn't a major factor over the games. A EU delay for Zelda and lots of Wii U remasters may make me hold off pre-ordering rather than say a £300 price point.

@JLPick OK ps4 and xbone is $299 before taxes.im meaning new not used.used prices don't matter

@rjejr as far as ps4 and xbone there is a reason for that.ps4 pro is$399 xbone s is $299.i wonder why.

@rjejr Well a key thing about PS4 Pro vs. PS4 Slim is the TV front. To get the most out of a PS4 Pro you need a really good TV and well that's expensive. Meanwhile the PS4 Slim is pretty much a smaller version of the original PS4 for a fair amount cheaper than the PS4 Pro.

I expect Microsoft will have the same difficulties with Scorpio where most people decide to pick up a XB1S instead. Well unless there's a Hyrule Warriors Legends (compare 3DS and New 3DS) type situation with some of the big games like Halo 3 Anniversary, Forza 7 and Halo 6 (the first 2 games aren't confirmed but you can predict them just by looking at patterns).

Hoping for 250$ even though I would buy it if it was 500$

Well, I'm in at $300 and $250 seems like a bargain so it will probably be $300 if Nintendo was selling to me alone.

On the other hand, we don't know completely what we are getting for whatever price it's going to be, so wringing hands over it right now doesn't do much good.

I could make a big list of things that may or may not be in it to change what I think a good price would be for it, but I don't have to! Just a day and a half or so and it will be straight up opinion based on facts from everyone — sure to be completely objective.

@Grumblevolcano Reminds me that the Switch comes with a "TV" and the others don't. The portable factor does add to the cost. I'd say $300 USD more realistic and $250 USD is a good hope... bah, I'm not even listening to my own posts now.

@Grumblevolcano Well supposedly besides doing a good job on 4k tvs the Pro is also supposed to improve things on 1080p tvs, but I don't think Sony presented it very well. In fact as far as I could tell Pro got barely any more marketing this holiday than the Wii U. I think launching Pro and PSVR so close together was a mistake also. Would have been like Nintendo launching Switch and NES Mini at the same time. At least they kept them 4 months apart. Now to see if Switch stock issues are any better than Mini stock issues. Couldn't be any worse I guess.

At the same time since there are no pics.i can say switch is $399 and 20 possibly 25 launch titles...See not hard lol

I'm excited to see what the Switch has to offer tomorrow, but more importantly, I'm even more excited to see these Switch rumors go away...

@rjejr pricing.im not paying $399 when I can buy a new one for $299.pro don't matter right now unless u have a 4k TV.my ps4 plays just fine on my 4k tv.is my reason for not buying a pro

People need to get over the whole "Oh noo's, the Switch is doomed when it's $300" because it's not.

It's a FAR more capable system than the Wii U and besides being in the same market, it's not really comparable to the other two offerings other than being a game console as well, so it should NOT be "priced accordingly".

It'll be priced according to it's worth and value, and Nintendo will not sell at a loss, Kimishima has already said so quite explicitly.

And for getting a system that incorporates two setups (mobile AND home), $300 is a normal and decent price.

And 15 games to be shown sounds pretty good to me. Like @JaxonH, I don't believe that if there are indeed 15, that they will all be launch games, but they could be launch window meaning they could be released anywhere within the first six months from launch.

Either way, I'm starting to feel the excitement, what with only little time left to the presentation that may very well bring Nintendo back to form...

By the way for those hoping for a UK value substantially lower than the dollar prepare to be disappointed. With the current value of the £ and then adding on VAT we are now reaching parity with dollar prices.

For example at todays exchange rates

$199 = £164 + 20% VAT = £196
$249 = £205 + 20% VAT = £246
$299 = £247 + 20% VAT = £296

And it's not going to get any better so it could easily go up in price.

@aaronsullivan 39 hours. Then 2 months to try and decipher it all. Some things like price are pretty easy, we either get a price or we don't, but Nintendo likes it's secrecy too much to give it all away in 1 night. Then we get to go over what we were told and play - "What's real, what's lies?". And there will be lies. If there weren't lies we'd be playing GameCube VC games and dual Gamepad games on our Wii U, and the EU would have gotten TVii. Hopefully nothing as stupid as TVii this time. No "non-specific generic action figure" either. That was cute, but we never used WiiVidChat in our home, not once. They need to get down to business and focus on the games, not GoogleVue. 38 hours.

@Slim1999 My reason for not buying a Pro was b/c it was never really on sale or came with a game. At $299 or $399 I might have bought a Pro, but I got a Slim on sale for $218 with Uncharted 4, I think the best offer I saw on Pro was about $370 and no game, that was too much of a difference for me. A Pro for $318 and U4 I would have bought. Sony just wasn't trying very hard, and I don't buy things unless companies try very hard to get me to buy them.

Switch at $250 is Nintendo trying, Switch at $299, well it depends what's in the box.

@rjejr

Keepin' it real, like always, my friend.

@BensonUii Then I would want it to basically be $199 and £199 respectively. Anything higher, certainly in the UK, is starting to just move past the magic line for this particular system imo.

@rjejr Yeah, pack-in games are very important. PS4 Slim had lots of pack-in bundles like Uncharted 4, Overwatch + Ratchet & Clank, Infinite Warfare (both standard version and legacy edition bundles available), Watch Dogs + Watch Dogs 2, GTA V, etc.

I think that's part of the reason the XB1S was doing so well since launch, there were Minecraft and FIFA 17 pack-in bundles of which FIFA and Minecraft are 2 of the franchises that must be on a home console (AND the Switch) for it to have any chance of success.

Looks like the Switch is going to launch with 15 WiiU ports. Sounds about right

VG24/7 says Walmart is showing it at $399 preorder:

https://www.vg247.com/2017/01/11/now-walmart-is-taking-pre-orders-for-the-nintendo-switch-at-400-rumour/

$250 gave my wallet a boner $300 is a little bit of a turn off

$300 stock console is a no-go from me. I am not totally old on Nintendo until they prove themselves coarse-corrected anyway, but no way I am buying a new console (non-bundle, etc.) at $300. My thought is that if it is a starting price of $300 it is because they KNOW (for once) that the stock will be waaaay too short to supply even regular demand so they are gouging a little bit because those are guaranteed sales already.

The way they handle our library of VC, and eShop contect will be a huge deciding factor......(including 3DS content that many of us had to double and triple bought at full price to play!!).

These kind of articles (nothing personal against the authors) in my opinion only add fuel to the rumours and the anticipation of fans is getting more and more wild. The sole reason why I dislike rumours is because in most cases they make you excited and anticipate something that may not happen at all in the end, so they only leave you with huge disappointment. No hate though, because hating on something is waste of our precious time.

Game 12 interests me, but I'm REALLY excited for game 4!

@FX102A You are right the Wii was £180.00 at launch, the Wii-U I think was £350.00?

Yes the other reason I am replying is I would love the Switch to be £200.00 and like what you said a good opportunity for us to buy a game or two, in the meantime we just gotta wait for the all important announcements. I am hoping that when Nintendo refers to Europe they will mean the UK too and that they don't think we all ready left Europe.... be interesting to know where Nintendo puts us afterwards.

@JaxonH

The Wii U gamepad was close to a pro controller though. The joypads look awful to me in their dock and don't have a real dpad for retro games. I view the $60 pro controller as a mandatory accesory whereas the pro controller was optional with the Wii U. So if it's $300 for the Switch and $60 for the pro controller that's more than the Wii U launched.

As each day draws nearer to switchmas, the price just keeps going up!

@Grumblevolcano FIFA would be very nice. I don't even play it but I'd be super excited to see it as a pack-in over in the Eu, but not the US. Mine craft as a pack-in kind of goes against their whole hipster vibe I think, but I do think it helped the X1.

Not sure what I'd like to see Switch have. I do think a mini game collection is a requirement to show off 2 player with the Joycon. Something like that Wii U game that came with the stand, just a port of that. Name alludes me. But that's a freebie, not a real game. I disagree with Splatoon, too online, won't work well in mobile mode and mobile mode is half the selling point. SSB:Complete is worth about $100 w/ all the DLC, maybe even $150, so it sounds nice, but I don't think they'll do it, they can sell it for $60, even as a port. MK is always bundled, but I'm afraid it just looks like the Wii U box then, and online again. Zelda U is easy, but is it done? They should bundle Zelda AND cancel the Wii U version, that would really show us Wii u owners what for. lease

I don't know, between online, cost and regional differences no game seems perfect besides a mini game collection. Maybe they shouldn't bundle any good game, just sell the hardware cheap and make it up in game sales. Like they are supposed to.

@k8sMum Well I try to keep it real, but don't ask me about Yooka-Laylee, then I get very unreal.

Man, do I really hope all you people are right!!!
I had decided I was willing to pay $350 and I'd consider it at $400, but if we're talking $250-$300 then I will be buying a few extra games with it (unlike Wii U where it was a month before I added a second game to Nintendo Land)

@Qun_Mang Judging from what I've seen in the past of console launches that $399 probably includes the Switch, Pro controller, a case, a screen protector, and a $60 game. Switch is going to be hard to find for months, lots of retailers like to make their own bundles to force people to buy stuff they may not want just to get the system.

So I can easily imagine a bundle price of $399, but there's nothing in the Switch alone to get it there.

Don't believe any leak until it makes sense, that's the general rule. I don't know how many people have printed out their own "leak" on paper & then photographed it inside a store... but we've had "confirmation" of some pretty silly stuff.

All this $299 listing tells me is that we don't know how much it will be yet.

@cleveland124
I guess, but I wouldn't knock it before trying it. The D pad should be fine. You never actually press the center of the pad anyways so there's really no reason to have it all connect.

I map control configs to the STEAM CONTROLLER and I've learned all kinds of things work. The Dpad on the Joycons should actually work better since being separated makes them easier to press by feel. No reason that Dpad won't work well.

Just because it looks a little different doesn't mean it will be functionally inadequate.

A lot of this really does depend on what's in the box.

@ThanosReXXX I agree with what you say about pricing, though I feel like Nintendo's consoles will always compete with Sony/Microsoft for gaming time. Portability is the Switch's trump card but it can't cost a whole lot more.

If there are really two sets, I'll speculate $250 for Switch, dock, charger, and Joycon grip. $300 adds a game (I'll go with Mario), an sd card for complainers about onboard memory, a different color, and $50 eshop credit. Nintendo will in all likelihood do something very different than what I just said.

To the people who say $300 is too much: You don't even ACTUALLY know what's inside the system yet to make that call. Let's just wait one more day until we actually know what we're working with here.

@BlueKnight07

Portability does cost a lot more especially if the system is on par or close to being on par with XBOX One and PS4

@ThanosReXXX Keep on fighting the good fight. I feel like so many people on here the past month or so only see half the picture and misjudge the other half. More craziness, less rational discussion.

So many people talking about power, hardly anybody talking about architecture. Wii U didn't miss out on games b/c it was under powered - PS3 and Xbox360 still get more games than Wii U and I've played enough Wii U games to know it's more powerful than both of those - but it has a weird architecture. So even if Switch is underpowered compared to PS4 and X1 it won't matter b/c Nvidia will make them work with easy porting. Porting is the issue, not the power. And besides PS4 isn't the power baseline, X1 is, just have to get close to that, sell enough units, Switch becomes the new power baseline. Architecture matters more than power.

And the hybrid design is key. Sony may have PS4 and Vita playing nicely together, but that's $500, and Switch is both of those in one. Microsoft doesn't even have a portable, so it's not comparable. And Vita uses very expensive proprietary memory cards, Switch will likely use SD. And carts are cool. 1 cart, same save point. Hopefully Nintendo allows more than 1 save file per, I still have my worries about the account system in a 4 person household.

But from a strictly hardware perspective, despite your dislike of the dock and the design and the old X1, that's still being used in the NEW Shield, Switch should be fine on a value basis for specs and price. Whatever that price is. Heck, we don't even know if it's a touchscreen yet. If it isn't, that's like a $1.28 screen. And even if it is, Amazon has a 7" tablet multitouch screen for $50, so it shouldn't break the bank.

And for everyone else worrying about X1 power in a $250 handheld, saying it can't be done, well there's no 4k blu-ray drive or 500GB HDD in the Switch, just a cart reader and card reader. Chips, ports, and a screen, that's it, that's how you keep the price down.

Ok, I'm exhausted, you have fun, keep up the good work.

@rjejr Oh, I'm over the whole dock and X1 debacle already, my grey-locked friend...

And taking into account what Nvidia has showed of the Shield 2 and what that's capable off, I'm not going to be too worried anymore.

PlayerEssence did a nice video about it, and in it he talks about realistic expectations based upon his own experiences with the Shield K1 tablet (and K1 is the X1's predecessor, so it's considerably less powerful):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mrnHkiJQ94

And apparently, there's more on the horizon. Have a look at this:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/evolution-nintendo-vr-stephen-e-dinehart-iv
I've also sent it in as news tip, but in case it doesn't get it's rightful place on the front page here at NLife, you can have a look see for yourself.

And to me, it's not so much about fighting the good fight but more about trying to make other people also see that the glass is actually half full instead of empty, but all most of them seem to be able to do nowadays is look at what it cannot do and what we (possibly) may not get, instead of all the things that we actually WILL get, and that is actually quite a lot, if you list all of it...

I'm going to brew some extra coffee tomorrow night, and stay up late to watch the presentation live (5am over here), because there's nothing like witnessing it when it happens and reading or watching it afterwards is always the lesser experience in my opinion.

Oh, and don't worry: I'm not going to ask you about Yooka-Laylee, especially since that will definitely be confirmed for the Switch pretty soon, either during or after the presentation...

Oh come on, this SKU is literally titled "Placeholder". It's a placeholder price, simple as that.

Everything else has pointed towards a $250 price.

But no, because the $300 price is the more negative quantity, then people are for some reason more inclined to believe it.

NintendoLife: Only Pessimism Allowed.

@Dangerous25 I say skip the wedding and get the Switch. Even if it ends up being worse than it's predecessor, you'll end up happier in the long run.

@Slim1999 The best buy and walmart around me has the Uncharted 4 PS4 bundle for $250 still...and Gamestop has a brand new XBONE (the original) with Rare Replay for $250...plus, there's some places online that you can get either one for that price. It's just something that I think nintendo should keep in mind, because if the Switch does start selling and takes away sales from Sony or Microsoft, they'll start to lower their consoles before Nintendo even thinks about it, which could hurt nintendo again...but it all depends on if nintendo is going to try a good relationship with 3rd party developers, or just live in their own worlds and not care...I think the Wii U proved that nintendo cannot just stand by themselves with a console.

@JaxonH

Maybe you don't play retro games much but buttons for a dpad are functionally a terrible substitute for me.

Please no region lock.

@Honelith That is my only hope. I hate carrying around multiple handhelds... And having multiple boxes at home is no fun either.

So...is it $249 or $299? I need to know how much money I'll be keeping in my pocket come March.

@bezerker99 Most likely $249. This article isn't a rumor, it's a placeholder price for a placeholder SKU.

@JLPick MSRP for ONE/PS4 is $300. If they are for $250, most likely, is because those remaining SKU's are from the holiday season or retailers are trying to move out old stock.

If the Switch price is $300, it is quite right and affordable. We can't expect Nintendo to sell new technlogy for cheaper price of 4 y.o. technology. Is simply ludicrous and unrealistic. Also, the New 3DS XL sells for $200, what on Earth makes peole think Nintendo would sell a newly developed console for almost the same price as their portable consoles, which use older and cheaper technology. The switch goes on sale between $200/$250, next thing Nintendo knows, people would start asking for a dramatic price reduction on the 3DS OR it would kill the 3DS all together.

Probably a standard unit and a BTW bundle.

Nintendo shouldn't and possibly won't sell it for $300.

$300 US is fine. It never ceases to amaze me how so many people expect a brand new piece of hardware to be less then similar hardware that's been available for 3+ years. @_@

@Onewhiskey42 lol well that's another thing, I'm still enjoying my Wii U, my kids love it and because my gaming time is limited there are plenty of games for me still to play on Wii U!

I would think that Nintendo has to come in at $250.00 tops $300 could be damaging to the launch

Meijer sold the Xbox One for $199.99 last year and Half-Price Books is selling used PS4 consoles for $199.99 so Nintendo had better not price the Switch higher than that as its technology isn't any better than the Wii U's which was already outdated when it was released.

@Dark-Link73 The only thing is that it would have to sell a little cheaper than the Wii U, which is still $300, or they really need to just cut the cost of the Wii U...or they get all of those consoles handed back to them. The Switch would be a little nicer to be cheaper than the PS4 or XBONE...a new console that could be lower quality, and then the other two on store shelves with more games and higher quality could affect nintendo's sales...many people out there don't want anything to do with nintendo, which is why they should focus on getting those people's attention...us as fans, know that it will be great no matter what, but nintendo needs to work on getting the others on board with them...no matter what, it's not going to outsell the PS4...it's not going to outsell the XBONE at the moment (it could throughout it's lifespan, but it has a long time to even catch up to that)...it will outsell the Wii U (how could it not) and it will surpass Gamecube sales (just the hype itself should help it with that). There's still going to be the normal hate towards nintendo scrolling around the internet and people are going to put them down no matter what, that's common just like the ones who argue over Sony and Microsoft...if Sega was still in it or Atari even, it would be the same with them. All I think, is that if they are charging $300, they need to pack it with a good game, not a poor quality cheap game title like Nintendo Land and Wii Sports basically were known as...cheap little mini games...true Wii Sports was incredible of a title and extremely fun to play, but it's not a high quality nintendo game, which is what nintendo should push for...even if the bundled game is a 3rd party title (which they could benefit from with showing that they actually care about 3rd parties). Guess tomorrow's presentation isn't coming fast enough for us!

@joey302 I fully agree, unless they package a good high-quality game with it. Other than that, a consumer is going to see the three consoles in stores, at the same prices...look at games for each and see the Switch (granted it'll be new) barely has a catalogue of games and pass on it. This is coming from parents that wouldn't know about it, but just walk in to see them...plus, it's also not the best time for a launch...the only time periods coming are tax returns, Easter holiday and Summer Vacations, and most families start saving up for vacations rather than a new console. Hopefully nintendo keeps this in mind, or they're going to have another console that begins to struggle until they do something about it. They also need to start advertising right away on TV during random shows and definitely during the super bowl...advertise the heck out of it and get more people's attention...not just rely on internet sources and online presentations.

@JLPick I honestly don't remember seeing more than a few Wii U commercials during the consoles lifetime where Sony just blasted you with them and Microsoft a close second. As far as a pack in games goes I'd rather see them go no pack in and keep it at $250.00 & let us choose our own games. Not everyone likes the game that's packed in with a console going all the way back to the 2600 (unless it's a real great game like when Sega packed in Sonic 1 with the genesis) but yea $300 would be too closely priced with the big boys and with 3-400 games in their libraries already the choice wouldn't be to difficult. And aside from the price, Nintendo really needs to have 15-20 great games at launch preferably RETAIL games so people SEE them and not as many downloads. They can pick up the download pace afterwards. The last link is that the remainder of 2017 HAS TO HAVE at least one BIG game a month or the Switch will fail. They can't have 3-4 month gaps with no games like Wii U! They won't sustain that!! Well here's hoping they learned their lesson!!! Oh and blast is with VC games with more frequent releases and more retro systems added to the mix. New systems like GameCube and Dreamcast added to VC would be great!!!! Fingers crossed!!

@ThanosReXXX It's on at 5AM, why not go to bed early and wake up early?

I hope Switch gets YL and they let all the backers get it, but if it releases on the other 2 consoles 3 months earlier that's no great deal. It's nearly mid-January and still no sign of Darksiders Warmastered on Wii U, disc or digital.

@IceClimbers NintendoLife: Only Pessimism Allowed.

Well, we don't call it Negative Life for nothing. We being myself and at least the 1 other person who came up with that. And I know I've contributed my share of dismay in the past, but there was a time I stood out like a sore thumb for it, years back, now it's the pulse of this place. Hopefully tomorrow night changes that. 24 hours to go.

@rjejr Well, one thing that will definitely happen is some sort of clickbait doom article because their stock dropped after the presentation even though it means nothing.

@FX102A There's was no way the Switch was going to be £199.99 like Wii was mate.

@Damo I talked to my old manager friend at GAME.He said there's noway it's £199,he said it's ethier £229 or £250.

@dparmar005 I have ol4 friend at GAME, he's manager there.No way he said it's £199,he's thinks it's £229 but he feels more likely £250

@blinder2 But early to be using past tense aren't we?

My money (and hope) is on £210-£220. Any more and they seriously risk reducing sales as people wait for price drops.

Although £250 is cool if they pack in a game or a Pro Controller.

@rjejr Why not go to bed early and set an alarm? Because I'm notoriously bad at waking up on time. I normally hit the snooze button 3 to 4 times before I get up.

And I'm more of a night person than a morning person, so better to stay up late.

Gave myself the day off on friday, so I'll get enough sleep afterwards...

@FX102A past tense.At end of day I've been shopping at that GAME store since first game shops opened,and the manager there is same.So as said I asked him and his co manager.They said £229 or £250.No chance it's £210.But will see.

@joey302 You're asking for the same thing that I am. The droughts need to end (even Sony's been getting bad with it with the PS4), but even if nintendo doesn't release every month, that's where the 3rd parties come in hand. The retail release scene needs to really come into play...that's what people look at, not download side. Downloads are good, but the only ones that really see them are the ones that buy the console itself. That's kind of where the Wii U fell flat...barely any game seen at the retail scene...it almost looked like a new console sitting on the shelf with only a few Mario games seen. The switch will definitely need a dozen games (retail) at launch, and I definitely agree that they need to worry about the retail scene after...even when the show off the console during the presentation, they need to focus on retail games at launch, not games a year down the line and not all the retail games and DLC and system specs...price and games are the only things I care about, and I want new games, not Wii U re-releases and games that are already available on the other consoles. They really need the 3rd party support and that's something else they need to keep in mind...keep the 3rd parties happy. If they don't include a game in the system itself, I heartedly agree...lower the price...even if they take a slide and lower it at a somewhat loss, it's better...they'll get the money back quickly after people spend on games and downloads. Nintendo just needs to go back to the way they used to be business sense wise, the NES, Super NES and even a little of the N64 was better business than what they've been doing, and the commercials were many...honestly, I only too saw a commercial or two for the Wii U and even the original Wii seemed to drought away after it's first year. Sony advertises and even Xbox advertises like crazy...every time I watch Family Guy, there's always a ton of commercials for them...nintendo needs the advertisement, and the internet is not the only way to go...parents (like myself) aren't always online looking at games and systems, so advertise during cartoon shows for the kid-games and advertise during adult shows for the rest...Super Bowl commercials should really definitely happen!!!!

@IceClimbers The nintendo is doomed will never end. The presentation will have its fill online about people back talking the system, and after it's launch it'll be the same. No matter what, there's always going to be back talk about nintendo, just like there is with Sony, Microsoft, Sega, Ubisoft, EA and all of the others. With the internet, everyone voices their opinions anymore, except most are ones just trying to troll and start fights instead of playing by rules. Nintendo kind of did it themselves with the Wii U, and when the 3DS released (with only 2 games at launch), it did it bad there too...even the N64 released with only 2 games at launch, and gamecube with 3...that's just been bad launch lineups from the start. Most systems release with more than that, and if they're not ready, don't release it yet...just shows that nintendo wants the money made instead of keeping people happy. Look how long we had to wait for Super Mario Sunshine on gamecube...a year past...a Mario game on 3DS or even for the really good games to arrive on Wii and Wii U...if nintendo can't even have a good decent game ready, then what is the point to the consumer picking up the system right away. I remember getting the 3DS at launch and was disappointed at the fact that the E-SHop wasn't even ready for 8 months later...meaning that the 3DS was rushed to get it out into stores (unpolished and unready) just to make a quick buck quickly. Shouldn't be like that, if the system's games and system's stores aren't ready, it's better for a delay, rather than a rush job...it hurts every company when they do this sort of thing. Everyone expects a week or two of drought after the launch, but not months and months.

To expensive! It should be 250 Dollar or less. Wich would mean 250 Euro or less for Europeans!

@IceClimbers Since the event ends around 2PM in Japan on Friday I'd say a stock price drop is almost a given unless Nintendo does something surprisingly well. Though since all the stock people want is for Nintneod to go 3rd party I doubt anything they say will make investors happy, so a drop it is.

@Grumblevolcano "Yeah, pack-in games are very important."

You know something Grumble, and don't think either you or I are ever going to have jobs at Nitnod, we are just too logical.

This way back post courtesy of my nearly 400 old emails I'm spending my entire Saturday trying to work thru. Only 200 to go.