MrMichaelJames

I have flat out told the kids they aren’t getting a switch 2. It’s too expensive. Initially I told them that it was possible but that was before the prices were announced. Now it is completely off the table. The console price to me isn’t a big deal but the game prices are flat out stupid. Especially since Nintendo eshop in the US rarely has sales on first party titles.

@RobynAlecksys theft means something was taken that cannot be replaced. It is a digital item with infinite copies. There is no theft here. This is no different than a reviewer putting out a full review with key moments from the game.

Lets be realistic, the cut scenes in the current games are cheesy as hell, a live action is going to be horrible.

Who in their right might would pay money for these things?

Are people really this stupid that they buy this overpriced physical media for multi decade old games? Come on.

@Cia 60 is quite visible and feels much better than 30 and 120 feels better than 60. It is very noticeable and consoles and games should be striving for at least 60 these days. Speaking of the video, the amount of jaggies is quite horrible. Can't wait to see videos of people playing this in emulators at 4k with legit anti-aliasing to see what it could really be like if Nintendo have good hardware.

6 out of the 7 answers are yes...what kind of a survey is this? I'm a no not at this price. If it never drops to 49.99 then i'll never get it.

Bah, don't care, seeing as how I refuse to spend $70 on any video game anymore.

Are these native linux apps or are these still windows apps going through proton?

No game is worth $70. BotW was good, not great. The world felt empty unless you came upon the area that was important. Thankfully we can vote with our wallet. I doubt most people will because they see "Zelda" and immediately take out their cash sight unseen. Nintendo knows this. $70 today, $80 next year.

If cost increase is due to cart size then it should be $10 cheaper if you download instead.

@Rainz I don't think ANY game is worth $70 or $60. I don't pay full price for any anymore just not worth it. BTW $90 CAD is $66 USD so you all are actually getting it cheaper than us.

No switch game is worth $70. I don't even think they are worth $60.

I was going to post "what are you going to play on an android portable besides android google store games" and that is what it is...boring. Just get a steam deck.

The one in Japan is boring as hell. The ride isn't very good so all they got going for it is the theming. Looks like this is more of the same.

Too damn funny and twitter deserves all of this (the company and CEO not the engineers working there).

Shouldn't her beef be with the union that negotiated the rates that she belongs to? For 16 hours of work you make $4k. That is 2 8 hour days. Now line up multiple gigs and you could be pulling in over $10k a month for working 4 days or so?. Seems like a good payday to me. Can't get multiple roles then you need a better agent if you are really as good as you say you are. Who else makes $250 an hour?

The switch tax really has me second guessing buying anymore Nintendo consoles no matter how great they are. Steam Deck might be my next portable console instead of a Switch 2 or pro or whatever the next one is.

Ugh who cares. These minis and retro consoles are such a niche product. I have my snes mini collecting dust on a shelf. They "look" cool but in reality these games really haven't aged well at all. If they (Sega) wants to continue to release old games just drop them on the Switch.

Historically Nintendo has never pushed the envelope of tech in their systems. They have always been behind others. I don't expect this to be any different. They make minimum changes to maximize profit, not to be trend setters.

If they do release it should be free for existing users. To charge for this should be criminal.

We all know they will screw it up. Nintendo is never pushing the envelope of technological upgrades in its hardware revisions. Name has a lot to do with it but go simple in design. Larger screen (maybe mini-led instead of oled), longer battery life, much more powerful GPU, and 4k output 1080p internal screen. Games on 1080p play at full 60fps as a requirement and 4k output at 60fps. Same form factor, new colors for the kiddos. This in itself will make it sell like hotcakes and people will upgrade their switches.

@sanderev no it won't. Stop being dramatic. I have the first release of this "plug" and it works great. The dock just doesn't fit on a normal home theater shelf, its too tall and then to take the switch out of the dock it needs to be double the height just to get the thing in there. This lets me hide the cables and simply lay the switch down. Its perfect.

@Piyo Was going to say this also. Everyones 4k tv upscales the image. Mine too does not look as bad as the promotional images. These things are waste of money.

Lots of lawyers in this thread

@RiasGremory and you nintendo fanbois will forgive everything no matter what because it has the name Nintendo on it. I don’t play that game. I equally ***** on anything that is a money grab.

@RiasGremory Is Nintendo going to start including switch games every month as part of the cost of online service? Sometimes 1st party games? No? Then its horribly over priced considering you are paying for an open sourced emulator and roms.

The table up top is wrong. For 1 year it is 49.99 that includes online + expansion, not 19.99. 19.99 is the cost without expansion. 12 month family is 34.99 without and 79.99 with

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/41194/~/how-much-does-a-nintendo-switch-online-membership-cost%3F

@Bret The $70 PS5 and XB prices are robbery, flat out robbery so I'm against those as well and refuse to participate. And yes, the prices are what they are because the market dictates it. If people weren't willing to pay that much the prices wouldn't be that high. Thats fine prices can be whatever the market dictates but I won't play "that" game. I stopped buying games on release day, stopped paying full price awhile ago. There is no point. I started looking at what I was buying, how much I get out of it and I figured out I would spend $60 of so, get a new release, play the hell out of it over the first week, finish it. And then what? Nothing, don't go back to it and move on to something else. Seems a huge waste of money to me so I stopped paying full price. I also refuse to buy physical. They do nothing but take up space, again a waste of money. It also is criminal that digital copies cost as much as physical copies.

@Bret I too think Dread is overpriced, but then again I think ALL Nintendo 1st party switch games are overpriced. The game prices for the switch should start at $49 for 1st party titles. Only reason they cost as much as they do is because people continue to shell out because its Nintendo. Unfortunately that means I'll probably never play Dread since there are rarely sales on these things.

Should be included already but I would pay no more than $1 more a year for it. But this is Nintendo, they are going to charge $14.99 more a year and advertise it as "For less than 15 bucks more a year you can...."

Then they will list out all the games and pull some cost of each game individually from somewhere and try and justify the cost. I'm just about done with consoles and their prices these days. I'd rather just stick to PC games and get things on sale and skip specific games all together.

I feel this is what V1 of the switch should have been. It should have been an OLED screen from the beginning, the kickstand (stupid but whatever) shouldn't have been flimsy, the dock should have had an ethernet port on it from the beginning.

The "upgrade" is so lackluster that we have to talk about kickstands and micro sd slots now because the hardware wasn't what everyone wants. Sad.

Amazon has delivery date end of August. Target isn't taking orders. I didn't even know this existed. Signed up on Amazon will work out great for daughters birthday.

This is pure Nintendo. They have not changed their plan in decades and they aren't about to now. Not worth my cash, I don't blindly buy things simply because some company makes it.

So updated screen and double internal storage...yeah pass. This is so typical Nintendo.

@AgentGuapo
So curious, out of the 233 comments before your reply you choose my comment about not being worth the price to designate as trolling. To me that shows either you don't really understand what that means or you yourself are looking to rile people up which is the definition of a troll yourself. Interesting...

Nope won't pay $60 for it I would pay a max of $40 for it. Nintendo rarely has sales on its titles so unless it drops in price I won't be getting it. Not when I can pick up AAA titles on a PC for fractions of their cost. I gave up paying full price for games (console and PC) years ago. No reason to preorder games, no reason to pay full price.

Mayweather should have layed him out. The only reason he didn't completely destroy him was probably a contract forbidding it. Which makes it a fixed fight. If it were real Logan would have been in a coma probably.

@iMarkU I've been to Pandora. The rides there are 100x better than this Nintendo selection of rides that is why its so busy. Its not busy because of the theme. Yes it makes for great pictures but now that I've done it the only reason I would go back to that section is to do the rides. There is a reason you can do the entire Animal Kingdom in half a day and that it is the weakest of the 4. There isn't much there. Most of the time you are simply walking from one end of the park to the other.

This is the newness factor. It'll wear off quickly since there are only 2 rides. One of them is simply a train with yoshi cars and nothing more, and the other one is a slow dark ride with AR gimmick. Theme in an area is definitely cool, but after you walk through it once it looses its newness if there aren't rides that are exciting to keep you in it.

Theming will only get them so far. The Mario Kart ride looks boring and there isn't enough to do in the park. I don't see this moving beyond Japan. I know there are plans for a US release but I bet it'll be quite a bit different. Compared to Harry Potter section this is tame. Yes attendance will be off the hook, then people will realize its boring.

@Kirgo With improvements in chip size and efficiency I bet the battery drain going from 720p with current chip to 1080p with a newer chipset isn't as large of a hit as people think. I still think its just Nintendo being cheap to maximize profits. Either way, I would bet that unless its a larger AND higher res screen it'll be a no upgrade for a lot of people.

OLED screens consume less power, so I would place bets that an OLED screen at 1080p vs an LCD screen at 720p probably consume close to same amount of power. I'm also placing bets that the reason the rumor doesn't say 1080p screen is because Nintendo seems to be notorious with their upgrades being lack luster. Personally I only use the switch as a portable device so 4k doesn't matter to me, but a larger higher res screen does.

The ride looks incredibly boring. I don't even know if I would call it an amusement park ride. Isn't Mario Kart supposed to be fast? Just looks boring.

Sounds like the guy was a hoarder as well as the mom. The mom was trying to fix things. Stop buying crap you won't use (unopened games).

Completely NOT on board with this. I buy all my games digital but cloud gaming is not a thing I want to see becoming popular. Can't play on the airplane or somewhere without internet. Issues with servers going down you no longer can access the game. At least with digital game I have it d/l to my device, cloud is none of that. I'd rather they NOT put it out at all.

I have this. It does not brick the switch. It actually works really well. My problem was the dock was too tall to fit down on a component shelf. This makes everything fit better. I’ve had a few problems where it won’t charge the switch but unplugging it and plugging it back in seems to reset it. This has happened twice in about 7 months so far.

@BenAV Agree, only time I play switch on the TV is when the kids want to play MarioKart. For my personal play it is always handheld.

@StevenG I do understand that I just don't care about it. If I want to play old mario I'll do so on my switch or my snes classic. You could say the game doesn't take resources to play, you need to keep around an old TV and have working old hardware around. That stuff is a lot larger than newer hardware that can store the game in a file only format instead of carts. I feel the sooner game companies switch to all digital only the better off we will be, but there is still quite a bit standing in the way of that for some people.

@GameOtaku I understand your point, but one bad house fire or house flood and all that physical property is gone forever. By the time the servers shutdown I won't care about replaying the game anyways, I'm 45 right now I just don't care about games I played in my 20s or when I was 10. I think online only is going to happen eventually, its inevitable.