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Well, no surprises there. You expect Ubisoft to put the customers preferences first?

Does this make them a candidate for a Darwin Award?

Something made with passion would be nice (from the developers I mean, not the executives, they can be passionate but it’s usually about ways of wringing more money out)

If I find like a game at a heavily reduced price, sure. Otherwise, no thanks.

Oh, well, there are loads of things we don’t get in Australia so this is… well, it doesn’t really make up for it, does it?

Oh, you can lend people dlc?! That’s great!

Dunno why Nintendo are like this, is it an ego thing?

I usually check in just to see if anything interesting has popped up. Not much to report on that front so far

Are they the same kind of analyst who planned Nintendos marketing strategy? Because those ones clearly aren’t worth whatever fee they charge

Makes sense, isn’t there like, one less shoulder button or something

Not exactly a surprise, almost everything is going up these days

Given all the controversy about this, and the fact they were saying “stay tuned for the direct”, it did not do what it needed to do.

Don’t get me wrong, the game still looks great, but you’d hope they’d have pulled all the stops out. In some areas, the direct made the game seem smaller. Like why are there less battle modes? Why are there named characters missing from the roster? I mean I’m excited to see all these newcomers, but I’m not convinced I want them at the expense of others.

Gotta be honest, the direct was cool and all but I was really hoping they’d pull out all the stops, so to see things missing from its predecessor at the price point isn’t a good look

I mean, maybe, maybe not. I think this is more a “we’ll see how things go throughout the generation.”

You never know when Nintendo will drop something like Labo, ring fit adventure or an alarm clock.

Right now, I’d say “mmmmmm, don’t think so”. But give it a few years. Maybe it will be the end of Nintendos identity. We shall see

Not sure how many people here know what Thunderbird 4 is, but as a Gerry Anderson enjoyer I appreciate the reference!

Huh, just when they had a chance to say hey, we got a more powerful console for less than the switch 2.

But I guess it must be a rough time to manufacture things like this. People are strapped for cash, so you need to keep the price down, but at the same time it’s becoming more expensive to manufacture stuff.

Not really a great situation for anyone involved, is it?

And it doesn’t help they have to keep investors happy who will abandon ship if your business is 1 cent less profitable than the same time last year. That’s not making a loss, mind you, that’s just making slightly less profit.

At present, I’m not sold on it. Need to know considerably more about it. Like, how much content is there?

Recon this game will need a demo

Is it worth considerably more than the price of a switch 2?

I would have been surprised if it wasn’t

I have a great respect for the lads and lassies over at toys for bob, if they did get the chance to do banjo, I recon they’d probably do a pretty good job.

Though it’s criminal there hasn’t been a new Spyro title either… his remake trilogy sold really well, when do he get his modern sequel?

Good. It’s expensive enough as it is, so to have people trying to take you for a ride even further is despicable

The thing that strikes me about this list is how good a deal the game boy colour was. Launched cheaper than the original model! Although, I guess it was an enhanced GB that launched waaaaay after the original. I guess they had gotten cheaper to manufacture by then

PM7 will not be happy

I’m definitely picking this one up, looks like a (barrel) blast!

@N00BiSH in my experience, people can be triggered by anything, so there’s a high chance this will trigger someone enough to make another YT video about it

Yeah, the price of the console isn’t the problem

He’s not entirely wrong.

I have to wonder if these increased prices are the flip side of Nintendo not laying off massive parts of their workforce when the profits aren’t as large as they were this time last year, or not including battlepasses and loot boxes in full priced games?

I’d much rather pay the 80 upfront than paying 60 and being bombarded with “buy this character bundle for 15 bucks!” Or “hey, he’s an actual advert interrupting your game.”

Mind you, I’d much rather we find a solution that makes most people happy. All this extreme anger (some of which is warranted, some not so much) is just, really upsetting.

I just want to settle in and be able to look forward to something, Y’know?

Act surprised?

Okay.

GASP! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT? WHAT A SHOCK!

They won’t rule it out, it’s a potential source of income

@Ichiban which lineup would you say is the best one?

In the Wii U section, you just implied sonic all stars transformed was naff…

I thoroughly disagree, and I’m very much not alone on that, that’s one of the better mascot racing games out there!

@Cathalm I have a disability pension, does that count?

Also, I suppose he’s popular enough on social media, if he gets enough views it’s like he’s being paid to stand in line

Are you not concerned about burning away the goodwill you’ve built over the previous generation?

Don’t you think this is a very dangerous and out of touch way to operate your business?

Makes perfect sense, and the two new titles announced for switch 1 aren’t too taxing, so it makes sense not to make them switch 2 exclusive.

Might end up being a PS2/PS3 situation where the older model sticks around for much of its successors lifespan, as the more affordable option

@sanderev if there’s no magnets in the joy con, how do they connect to the magnets in the console?

Nintendo are not doing themselves any favours by not being clear about this.

On the bright side, at least you can use it in your switch one and your switch 2

I wonder if this is the other side of the coin to not firing masses of employees like the rest of the industry has the last few years, or not stuffing your games with battle passes and other micro transactions

Yes, I think Nintendo have fumbled the bag quite considerably, by not being clear in their information it’s causing mass confusion and outrage. How much of it is deserved and how much of it is fuelled by misconceptions, I haven’t a clue, there’s conflicting information because there is very little official statements on the subject. Which, to be clear, is a big mistake.

They needed to be clear in their communication. They’ve been very much not that

@Gkobz I’ve tried looking it up and there’s a lot of conflicting information on this subject, with little actual sourcing. (This is Nintendos fault for not clarifying things, leading to mass confusion)
Can you please link me to a source for the 90 price tag?

@PikminMarioKirby same thing happened when donkey Kong tropical freeze came to switch, shrunk by a couple of gigs I think

I hope there’s more than 28 courses given the price for this, even with them being interconnected

I won’t be picking one up right away. Once I start downloading more games I’ll pick one up

If Nintendo ever went out of the console manufacturing business, they could make a pretty penny offering their services at compressing file sizes

Considering game share is a thing, I would hope the wireless would be better for it

@Solomon_Rambling considering how much gatcha games charge for individual characters, it almost sounds kinda but not entirely reasonable!

I say, is it an actual 10x improvement or a Bethesda 10x improvement?

Logically, it should cost less to buy it digitally, because they don’t have to physically make the cartridges, the packaging, the cost to ship it to stores etc. To be honest, it should ALWAYS have been cheaper to go digital.
However, if they are inflating the base price unnaturally, that still not on. I usually went physical with my switch one games because it was simply cheaper that way. Now I might reconsider.

I had wondered what these talented fellers had been up to

Well, you might damage your joy cons trying to fit them into the switch 2 to charge them…

I mean, why even make it in the first place if you want people to pay for it?

“Allo’ monsieur, welcom’ to your very expensive hotel room, would you like a novella featuring a detailed explaination for how your plumbing works? For a fee of course. It has cartoons in it!”

“Eh, no thanks, I spent a lot of money on this hotel room, I’d rather save my money on a book I actually want to read, thanks.”

“Sacre bleu! Why does no one want to pay for our plumbing book? We spent money making it!”