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@jojobar Literally every major studio requires an online connection for their games these days. Even if it's Single player.

Ubisoft, EA, ActiVision, Epic Games, 2K, etc.

They all want to collect your data for Analytics.

@Zadaris CDPR can put CP2077 on a cartridge, since it's a 5 year old game that got a ton of patches, fixes and expansion.

Even if they put their new Witcher 4 game on a cartridge, it will be so buggy off the cartridge, that it will be neigh on unplayable and requires at least a huge day 1 patch and some follow up patches to be able to finish the game without bugging out somewhere.

That is the reality of today's game releases. Too many people working on one game, making it too complex and create very buggy, sometimes almost broken retail releases.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an marvelous exception, made by a small studio. Hope that game comes to the Switch 2.

@DennisLofgren The fact is that there is no info on this company, there is no clear info on this product. What safety certifications does it have?
There is a reason why you can't buy these products in official stores. Since stores can only sell products that are approved, follow regulation and certifications.

Drop ship companies fall through the cracks as they use loop holes to bypass all this and as such can sell products that are potentially dangerous and often of very low / questionable quality.
It's why I also not buy anything from Aliexpress and definitely not Temu.

I am not saying that Genki sells crap, but the fact they hide their company info, HQ, no contact details, not offering return and refund policies.
This is all highly suspect! If you believe and stand by your own product, then you don't hide your info and deny standard shopping practices like refunds and returns.

Just my 2 cents.

@SirLink It doesn't matter who leaked the actual info to Genki.

In the end, Genki themselves decided to leak that info for their 15 mins of fame!

The April event was supposed to be the official Switch 2 reveal event, but instead, Nintendo had to scramble after these leaks and rush an Online direct much earlier and as such it ruined the whole Switch 2 April event.

Since everything was already leaked and the rushed Online Direct greeted by muted reactions, after the April event, the press only focused on the bad stuff like High console price and increased game prices and as such it has created a lot of negativity around the Switch 2 now.

@Smithicus Every other company does this.

They spend a huge marketing budget for a specific reveal date that also coincided with physical hands-on press-events on different locations, that requires a lot of careful planning.

Genki deliberately leaked the Switch 2 for 15 mins of fame and as such pretty much ruined the official reveal event, since all the details were pretty much leaked before hand.
It most likely forced Nintendo's hand to rush that direct shortly after, as they most likely didn't plan to reveal anything before the April event!

The official reveal was extremely muted by the press, with headlines all over pretty much saying it was a lackluster reveal event without surprises and just confirmed earlier leaks.

It was quite terrible for Nintendo, since everything was already leaked beforehand, the press just focused on the bad stuff after the April event, like high console price and increased price of games. Creating a lot of negativity around the Switch 2.

@DennisLofgren Yes I am referring to that website.

No company info. No company location info. No direct contact info. All they have is just a crappy webform.

It clearly says in their FAQ they do not offer refunds nor any returns!

These are all dead giveaways and major red flags in my opinion!

Any reputable company doesn't hide their info, HQ and any contact info.

@SirLink Almost every product is manufactured in China.

Reputable companies like Apple and Nintendo (for example) control the entire manufacturing and QA process. That's the big difference.

These drop shipping companies on the other hand, just sell cheap clones and garbage that gets flooded onto our markets, hurting legitimate businesses that try to sell genuine and better quality products.

These drop shipping companies make use of legal, tax and regulation loop holes and governments should take more action against these practices and put a stop to it!

It's not just a danger to legitimate business, but also an environmental disaster, with these cheap crap products flooding our markets, breaking down quickly and adding to our plastic and e-waste.

@Smithicus For what?

Have you checked their website? It's just typical run of the mill drop shipping website. That's all they are! They manufacture nothing! Just rebranded cheap Chinese Temu quality garbage.

These drop shipping companies are the worst, jump through import tax loop holes and flood our markets with cheap Chinese plastic crap that breaks down quickly... greatly adding to our plastic waste and e-waste problems.

@jfp Google translate malfunction more like it. Typical Chinese company translation hickups lol.

This company is just your typical, dime in a dozen, ***** drop ship company selling cheap Chinese garbage and little at that.

Nothing lost on this and not much money to get for Nintendo. They probably just going to declare bankruptcy, before this lawsuit even starts.

@Profchaos I think this game got a lot of undeserved hate and fell victim in the Political climate in US (and part of Europe) with the whole anti-DEI movement. Simply because it had a female lead character.
If they had opted for a male protagonist, the game would have been spared the political barrage and done better.

As it really is not a bad game at all. Especially if you enjoy the Assassin's Creed games and are also a Star Wars fan, you will likely enjoy this game.

I myself really enjoyed the first part of the game, but like with every other AC game I tried, I just end up getting bored.
I just tend to enjoy more linear story driven games. That is just my personal preference and doesn't mean this game is bad.

@JohnnyMind You should try Monster Hunter Wilds. It's a much better game if you hated the controls of the earlier games.

In Monster Hunter Wilds you be able to lock onto a monster, which is a great improvement when playing with the difficult slow heavy melee weapons.

@Medic_alert I would have loved to see Jedi: Fallen Order come to the Switch, to be able to play it on the go.

Really enjoyed that game a lot. Though Jedi: Survivor I did not, simply because it was just more of the same and I just got bored of it. Maybe it also has to do that the story isn't as good as the first game.

Star Wars: Outlaws is a good game, but it basically just feels like an Assassin's Creed game with a Star Wars skin.
The moment the world fully opens up, it becomes a bit of a grind.

@SirLink Of course they did it on purpose. For the exact same reason as to why phone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung limit key new software features to new phones only, even though the previous gen phones are powerful enough to also use them.

You need to try force people to buy the latest shiny to pile up on the e-waste.

@romanista The original is outdated and stuck on 4:3 format from that era.
It's a bit different with original NES and SNES games classics, but both Wind Waker and Twilight Princess were remastered in HD with widescreen support and released on WiiU. A failed console.

So why would Nintendo refuse to port these excellent remasters to Switch, so a much larger audience can enjoy these HD remakes?

@LastFootnote All modern 4K TV's have built-in upscaling and actually do quite a decent job in making it look better on a large 4K TV.

The problem with the current Switch is that a lot of games have dynamic resolution and drop down to 900p or lower even in docked mode.

So if the Switch 2 version can at least give a consistent 1080p output, then it will still look decent with upscaling on a 4K TV.

Of course it will never look like native 4K. So don't expect miracles.

But like someone else said above, it's strange they don't utilize the DLSS 4K upscaling the Switch 2 is capable of.
Maybe it's still not ready yet on the dev kits and might be patched in later. Fingers crossed.

@OldGamer999 They literally have a widescreen version called "Wind waker HD" , which people have asked for years to have ported to Switch from WiiU.

We also have Twilight Princess HD stuck on the WiiU (with Amiibo support) that should still be ported.

This is just Nintendo becoming more and more a greedy Corporation trying to get people to pay more for NSO + Expansion pack.
I wouldn't be surprised one bit if Nintendo stooped even lower and add WiiU to Expansion Pack of NSO down the line for Switch 2 and then add these HD remakes there. Just to try force people to pay up on high subscription fee.

@Alcea What chip shortage? Most of the chip shortages have long been sorted out after COVID pandemic.

It's mostly automotive industry that still had issues.

And the Switch 1 launched years before COVID pandemic, so Nintendo definitely did not had any excuse there.

@stuie1234 Nintendo never produces enough and never learns.

It will be the Switch 1 launch all over again.
Here in my country they only got confirmed two limited shipments ( 5/6 and 11/6 ) and both are sold out already (even with 1 console/customer limit), with no further info when they will get the third shipment. Probably not before July/August.

It was the same with the Switch 1, where it took several months after launch, before they got a new shipment of consoles again.

@nhSnork That's not surprising when it currently sells for next to nothing. It's like 70-80% discounted currently.

@OorWullie All XBox Exclusive games come on GamePass day 1. Unlike Sony, where you have to wait at least a year for it to show up on their PS Plus Premium.

So these games pretty much never end up high on any sales chart, since most will play these new games via GamePass rather than buying it at retail.

It's a bit of a CATCH22 for XBox as it doesn't give a realistic picture how good / bad XBox is doing.

I have both XBox Series X and PS5. Hardware wise the XBox Series X is superior and runs much quieter than my PS5, which has a rather audible Coil whine and fans run loud quickly. Same with the Bluray drive that is noisy as hell.

@TheExile285 It's just cosmetics and can easily be ignored. It has no impact on the game whatsoever, unlike the typical Korean games with their cash shops.

@-wc- It's just a disgusting way for Nintendo to force people to spend more money on a Pro 2 controller.

There is literally ZERO reason for the original Switch Pro Controller to not be able to wake the Switch 2 console from sleep with the Home button.
Other than Nintendo creating a deliberate frustration to force you into buying a new controller.

@FreasurePlanten Bungie is no longer independent. They are part of Sony now.

Sony and Nintendo are bitter rivals!

Bungie is no longer independent and part of Sony, so none of their games will come to the Switch / Switch 2.

@Spider-Kev What excuses are there?

BotW was originally developed for the WiiU, but when the WiiU tanked and the launch of the Nintendo Switch accelerated, it switched to a last minute double launch WiiU / Switch launch title.
I think a lot of people forget this, that BotW launched on both WiiU and Switch.

Developers are always working within the constraints of the hardware and they were breaking a lot of new ground with Breath of the Wild.

It was the first truly open world game they had ever done. They incorporated destroyable terrain and objects. Building, spawning and manipulation mechanics.
It was quite a ground breaking game at the time and rightfully won a lot of game prices that year.

The game world is also not empty as you say. There are animals roaming everywhere. Monsters and machines all over the place and various settlements spread over the map. Humans ( traders, patrols, adventurers ) are wandering over paths all over the map.

In a post apocalyptic setting? What is your definition of not empty world? Humans spawning every 10 meters apart? Having a settlement every 100m apart?

Skyrim, another price winning open world game, which I played endlessly. Is per definition not more populated and just as empty per your definition then.

Witcher 3 had some big sprawling cities and some small towns here and there, but had equally very large areas with little to no settlements. I could ride on Roach for quite some time in various areas without seeing any human anywhere. Just some old ruins and (corrupted) animals.

In the end. Developers are limited to what they can spawn on the screen without overloading the console.
Something has to give. They either have to do a lot of duplicate spawning or have very short draw distance where objects and mobs suddenly pop into view.

I think with BotW they made the right compromises with having realistic long draw distance and mob density and also make the world feel alive.

To each their own opinion, but perhaps Open World games are maybe not your thing.
As I have played a lot of Open World games and they are all very similar.

@Spider-Kev BotW setting is post-apocalypse. So of course the world is rather empty.
That’s the whole point of the setting of the game.

But in fact it’s not all that empty. It’s filled with monsters and deadly machines with pockets of human resistance here and there.

@RubyCarbuncle Because gamers are too gullible, too obsessed with FOMO and need a good kick in the butt to fight back against this corporate greed!

What's the point in buying a physical game anymore, if all you get is an empty cartridge with a keycode on it?
Somewhere in the near future, Nintendo will shut down the Switch eShop, just like they did with the Wii/WiiU and DS/3DS eShop and all those Physical games will be completely worthless and worth nothing. Since there is nothing on those cartridges!

@NielsNL That idea only flies as long as the Switch eShop servers stay online!

Just look at the Nintendo 3DS. If there were games like that with empty cartridges, then those physical games would be literally worth nothing anymore! As the 3DS eShop is gone. You cannot download any game anymore.
I had a lot of digital purchases and had to make sure I had downloaded them all. Had to buy a larger SD card so I could download everything, before the eShop went offline.

The reason why the Retro games market is so active and popular with old classic consoles, is that both consoles and game cartridges work. No internet connection required and the game cartridges have the full game on them.

I guess Nintendo is finally tired fighting/competing with Sony and instead join them in regarding to pricing and milking every penny out of their customers!

It's like Nintendo doesn't want people to buy the Switch 2 and turn it into another WiiU with poor overall sales.
As that's what's going to happen if they continue down this path they're taking.

@Joeynator3000 That wouldn't make any sense. The WiiU was a disaster with such a small user base and low sales of games.

So much time, money and effort went into making these HD versions of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. Why wouldn't they rerelease it on the Switch, so more people can enjoy it?

That's rich coming from a Sony Exec.

Maybe someone can remind him that a lot of the new PS5 games also cost 90 bucks (basic standard edition) now in the PS Store?

@ElkinFencer10 People clearly have rose tinted glasses if they think the Switch 1 had a good launch line-up.

We literally had Zelda:BotW and that's it.

It was the only game I played on the Switch for a while and then it end up dusting away for months, before any meaningful new titles to launched on it. The first two years were horrible with long draughts of nothing.

Have we really such short term memories? Have we forgotten all the critique Nintendo got during those first 2 atrocious years of the Switch launch? Even here on Nintendolife!

Nintendo literally had to rush the Switch launch, ahead of enough titles being ready for it, due to the WiiU disaster.
Zelda: BotW was initially developed for the WiiU, but then quickly changed to a Switch launch title, releasing on both consoles.

@anoyonmus Not only that, many new games still get a release on PS4 as well.
You can still buy PS4 games in the stores (and I am not talking about Gamestop or other retro stores, but regular stores).

That's why I am a strong advocate of the direction Sony, Microsoft and now Nintendo went with full backwards compatibility with new consoles.
So we as consumer have more power and the choice when to upgrade.
There will always plenty of gamers out there that want the latest hardware and most shiny graphics.

And then of course there is the environmental aspect of e-waste. I mean, I just bought my OLED Switch one and half year ago on release day. It still looks good as new and works great. Why would I ditch this perfectly good console already? Or sell it at great loss?

@Duncanballs The problem is that especially Sony has jacked up the prices in their PS store and now its happening in the XBox store as well.

Here in Norway, for many AAA games I have to pay 90 Euro for standard edition in the PS5 Store, while with my 10% discount club membership at my local store, I can still buy a physical copy in the launch week for under 70 Euro.

Digital copies used to be 10 Euro/USD cheaper, because there is no physical media and distribution costs.
Now they have become greedy and we pay more for digital than physical! It's stupid.

Sony is actually being sued for this, since they sell a Digital only version of the PS5 and thus those people are forced to pay the hefty premium on Digital copies now and getting shafted by Sony.

@jfp It's super annoying and quite sad that it's happening and I doubt the consumer authorities are going to bother with price fixing on a game console. When they currently have plenty of other problems to deal with.

But since it's a problem in Norway, Sweden and Danmark. They all have one thing in common and that is Bergsala AB. The Nintendo distributor here in the Nordics.
So it seems its just this notorious distributor that is trying to pull a fast one to increase their profit margins.

The only one that can really take action here is Nintendo themselves, but then again, I hardly doubt they going to spend time dealing with this. We are fairly small footnote on the big global scale of console distribution.

@LikelySatan Yes the pervy design of some of the female blades can be really off-putting, but luckily most of the main female character blades are ok, so its quite easy to avoid/ignore the real pervy blade designs.
Otherwise I would not have enjoyed the game as much myself and finish it.

I am a male gamer and even I find it really off-putting when they go way overboard with stupid pervert female designs. It just distracts from the game and not in a good way.
I am long passed the Horney teenage phase and not interested at fawning at such ridiculousness.

@jfp Problem is that not many of those shops remove EU VAT, as I pay 25% Import VAT.
So it would be fine, since most countries in EU have 20+% VAT, but sadly a lot of retailers are lazy and refuse to remove local VAT on an order from outside EU, because they use outdated web sites.

So I just have to wait and see. Maybe some Nordic retailers start doing some "grey" imports to push the price down over coming months. Time will tell.

PS. Then there is also the issue with warranty, when you get issues with your Switch console and then have to send it abroad for repairs. That can end up very costly. So that is also a risk with ordering a Switch 2 console outside your country and having to deal with expensive shipping and repairs.

Well here in Norway, Sweden and Danmark, the Nordic distributor and major retailers have become the scalpers themselves and set the prices at 650 Euro for the base Switch 2 and a whopping 740 Euro for the Mario world bundle!

A tech news site has already called them out on this! As there is literally no excuse, when in the rest of Europe the price is at a normal level as advertised by Nintendo.

So, no Switch 2 for me and my son. I am not going to pay more for a Switch 2 than I did for the PS5 two years ago.
This is beyond nuts and appalling really!

@LeGrosMartin Same here. For me Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the best game.
It's also the only game I managed to finish and not get bored halfway through.

The world covered in water and where people live on living Titans was such a unique setting with very diverse landscapes.
It was this unique setting together with a really good story that really made it my favorite in the series.
Also all the different Blades you could collect was cool and how it could customize your combat and even trigger unique dialog situations.
What I did found a big negative though, was the female Blade Character designs. Maybe they should stop hiring horny teenage designers bursting in hormones. /shrug

I tried XC3, but it quickly devolved into a boring repetitive game with too slow paced story. It started out good and interesting, but about a third way in, I stopped playing.

XCX is the pinnacle of boring repetitive grinding.... ugh.

@YesImCynical

"The 2019 microSD Express standard bridges internal and external storage technologies by utilizing the same PCI Express/NVMe interface as modern SSDs, offering significantly faster performance than traditional microSD cards—up to 880MB/s read and 650MB/s write speeds versus the 104MB/s maximum of UHS-I cards."

Mind you. The Switch 1 doesn't even come close to that UHS-I limit, but is long rumored to cap out at around 60-70MB/s.
So yeah, it's to be seen if Nintendo here too didn't skimp on the SD reader and put in a cheaper module with lower read/write specs.

If there is one notorious minefield out there, then its in the card reader and USB component industry.

@YesImCynical Really? Then why did I just buy an RTX4070 card for my son that has 12GB VRAM?
It's the older xx70 cards that were long stuck on 8GB VRAM I agree.

Either way, NVidia has just become a nasty monopoly business and we can only hope that AMD can get their crap together with their GFX cards, as they did with their CPU's to destroy Intel and able to do the same with NVidia.

NVidia needs to get a good humiliation (although they are currently good at humiliating themselves currently with the whole RTX50 debacle), like Intel got and put back in their place.

It's why I just bought a RTX4070 OC card (12GB VRAM) for my son's PC and not an RTX5070 card I would had to pay 400 bucks more for (wich offers same or even less performance shown in recent tests).

When it comes to Native 4K, of course amount of RAM is important to handle loading much larger resolution textures.
But also requires much faster nVME storage, to load these much larger texture file sizes into RAM.
That is why both XBox Series X and PS5 (for example) come with 16GB of RAM and onboard nVME storage.

The question is, how much RAM will the Switch 2 have?
At least it's a positive that it requires the new microSD Express cards, as it's rumored to support up to 800MB/s read speeds.

So people complaining about this being a cash crab, need to understand that the current SDXC cards in Switch 1 are horribly outdated and have extremely slow read speeds. Hence why the Switch 1 suffers such long load times in many games.

@Qwiff Exactly. As to why my fear is that Nintendo is getting trapped (willingly or unwillingly) into NVidia marketing shenanigans.

My LG OLED 4K TV already does 4K upscaling (quite well mind you. Especially with old DVDs) when it detects signals below 4K. Otherwise it would have been neigh on impossible to play Switch 1 games on my 65 inch TV, as it would have looked absolutely horrible with stretched 1080p on 65inch screen. Same with films and series on my old DVDs.

So, if all the Switch 2 does is offering 4K DLSS upscaling for the majority of games, then we just not going to notice any real difference from the Switch 1 other than higher framerates.
As it will just be the Switch 2 doing the 4K upscaling, instead of my TV.

Just to explain why upscaling is not the same as Native. Example, put a regular DVD in your PS5/XBox and play it on your TV (with 4K upscaling activated) and then put a Bluray on with native 4K image output.
I can tell you, you will see a difference on a 65inch TV. Even sitting 4 meters away on your couch.

@TYRANACLES It's worse. The Switch 2 has only 256GB built-in storage.
Actual Native 4K XBox Series X and PS5 games take up anywhere from 80-130GB of space on storage and these consoles come with 1TB built-in storage and I still had to expand them with 2 TB extra storage to be able to have a decent library of games stored on the console, instead of spending half my time clearing storage and downloading games.

So if the Switch 2 really is capable of Native 4K for certain games and Cyberpunk 2077 managed to compress down to 64GB in size, that doesn't bode well and means you are lucky to hold maybe 4-5 games tops on internal Switch 2 storage. Maybe 1-2 more with the smaller Nintendo games. But that's it.
So lets hope this announced 1TB Lexar card will be reasonably priced, but I don't hold my hopes up it will be anywhere under 150 bucks. That would mean you have to fork out at least 600 bucks to buy a Switch 2 + 1TB SD express card.
That's the same amount of money I paid for my PS5 two years ago!

@Medic_alert TFLOPS shows the raw power capabilities of the GFX cards! It gives you a rough baseline of the GFX capabilities of the SoC.

Gamer Nexus has already exposed NVidia with the terrible RTX50 generation cards and how they are no better than previous gen cards (some even worse), unless you turn on Frame generation ( Fake frames). Which is BS.

There is a big difference in actual Native 4K and DLSS upscaled to 4K. You can really see the difference on a large 4K TV ( 65+ inch ).

So if Nintendo is claiming that the Switch 2 is capable of Native 4K 60fps, then they need to actually able to back this up with facts and show us the SoC data sheet specs and not NVidia marketing shenanigans.

For the Switch 2 to be able to do this in Docked mode, it will need to be able to match the performance of the AMD Zen 1 Extreme SoC in PC handheld devices like the latest Rog Ally X.

If we finally get hold of the official specs and this new Switch 2 SoC is close to AMD Zen 1 extreme performance specs, I might actually start to believe the Switch 2 will be capable of delivering Native 4K for certain games.

@Orpheus79V That is just another rumor. Even Tomshardware hasn't got any real data yet on the new Switch 2 SoC.

We just have to wait until we get the official SoC datasheet specs leaked.
I mean, 3 TFLOPS could be about right, but is nothing to write home about. Especially for Native 4K gaming.
It wasn't until the PS5 ( 10 TFLOPS ) and XBox Series X ( 12 TFLOPS ) that offer true native 4K gaming at acceptable performance levels.

So, while 3 TFLOPS is quite better than the Switch 1, it is in fact not 10x faster.
Yes in handheld mode, its 10x faster if the Switch 2 can do 3 TFLOPS in handheld mode, but docked the Switch 1 clocked close to 600/700 GFLOPS.
All the while the fully clocked Tegra X1 on the NVidia shield back in the day topped out at 1 TFLOPS!

So honestly, if the new Switch 2 SoC tops out at 3 TFLOPS docked that is actually a huge letdown, as that is barely 3x faster than the 10 year old Tegra X1 SoC.

So, before we jump to any conclusions, lets hope this so called reported 3 TFLOPS is performance in handheld mode and that in docked mode we get closer to 5-6 TFLOPS at least.
As otherwise Native 4K is going to be an outright lie and not possible for the vast majority of games, save for some simple cartoony looking games.
It will then be more likely closer to 1440p native games that get then supersampled/upscaled to 4K via DLSS.

Of course it will still look much better on a large 4K TV, as most Switch 1 games topped out at 900p docked (or worse with variable resolution). It still not Native 4K that only the PS5 and XBox Series X is really capable of.

So I am taking these Native 4K 60fps claims with a huge clip of salt and wouldn't suprise me that there are NVidia DLSS and frame generation shenanigans at play here, to achieve it.

PS. Just for reference, the AMD Zen 1 Extreme SoC (in Rog Ally X for example) tops out at 8.3 TFLOPS.
So if the new NVidia SoC in Switch 2 gets even remotely close to the AMD Zen 1 Extreme, then we will talking and I will start to fully believe Native 4K 60fps claims in docked mode and would also explain the extra cooling fan in the new dock unit.

So we will see when we get hold of the official specs.

@Varkster We don't know yet, since there is literally zero information available about the new SoC.

You also have to understand it takes years to develop and manufacture a new SoC.
We also don't know if it really is a brand new SoC and not just deceptive marketing. It can just end up being a modified existing NVidia SoC.

Everything is speculation at this point until someone leaks the actual SoC specs.

@SBandy1 Not being able to take the Switch 2 console out of sleep with the Switch 1 Pro controller is just such a classic sleezy move!

Claiming you can still use your previous controllers, but then create just enough inconvenience to force the consumers to buy the new controllers anyway.

@Keman But this is the so called inflation correction that has been happening for last 2+ years.

Both on XBox and Playstation 5 store, new AAA games cost 90 bucks minimum now in my country, while I can often pickup the physical copy in my local store for around 65 bucks still with my 10% member discount.

I don't know what happened, but it used to be the other way around, where digital games were cheaper, since it doesn't carry the cost of physical medium and packing+distribution.

But with the PS5 having a digital only variant of the console, Sony has already been sued for this, abusing their market position and trying to force people with digital only consoles to pay a lot more for games than people who can buy physically.

It's sad to see Nintendo following suit with pricing their upcoming Switch 2 games also towards 90 bucks.
That is a 50% increase from Switch 1 games.

Sorry but after the whole RTX50 fiasco, I don't believe a single thing coming out of the mouth of NVidia.
Especially with their CEO boasting on stage that the RTX5070 boasts RTX4090 performance claim, which is of course an outrageous lie.

It's sad to see NVidia falling so far and abusing their dominance position in the GFX market.

So when it comes to Switch 2 performance, I will wait and see when sites like Gamer Nexus and DF get their hands on the Switch 2.
Either way, the Tegra X1 SoC in the Switch is about 10 years old by now, so you expect a very significant performance increase if the SoC in the Switch 2 is brandnew tech co-developed by NVidia and Nintendo.