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These over-priced collectors editions are scummy enough as it is. $250 for a pile of waste plastic.

For £75 I'm definitely waiting for reviews and some extensive real-world longevity testing. I won't be rushing to buy extra joycons for similar reasons.

I'll be keeping my OG Switch for a few reasons. Backwards compatibility is only ~95%. Gameshare might be a nice feature. And my family can use I while I hog the Switch 2...

At 71GB this games costs £13.86 to store on an official Nintendo SD express card.

@the_beaver I'm not suggesting you should, but you literally can buy it right now without owning a switch 2 console.

£13.49?! That is an instant purchase.

@Sebos Gameshare "Nintendo Switch systems can only receive games that are compatible with Nintendo Switch."

I'm guessing that means Switch 1 games with a Switch 2 upgrade will work, but Switch 2 exclusives won't allow gameshare on Switch 1.

Exactly the expected price

I was quite pro these game-key cards as better than code-in-a-box, but if they are being used this widely then it's a concern. We'll have to wait and see how pricing ends up once we are beyond the launch period.

@Orpheus79V £66.99, so the upgrade is £7

Why was this even a question? If they were adding the DLC they would have made it very clear it was a bundle. Why would you think it might be there when they didn't say it was?

@RubyCarbuncle Argos has absolutely charged the full amount for my pre-order, it's not a pending transaction.

My recommendation is to use a credit card for section 75 protection.

"Don't bother going to GAME stores" is good advice in general

I think we're going to get cross-gen releases for a few more years. A lot of indies won't have need of the improved hardware and I wouldn't be surprised if we even get more Nintendo titles after Metroid Prime 4 with a standard and Switch 2 Edition.

The idea that the real price will be under £75 misses the point. Switch 1 games launch at around £40. (I think £43 is the most I've paid for a day 1 purchase) Switch 2 games are going to be £55-£65. So possibly around a 50% increase! We will have to wait and see how much margin retailers have on this as there's not much competition yet.

So there's no increase for Switch 2? That's good at least.

We're pre-ordering 8 year old Wii U games now...

So the high prices were not allowing for tarriffs. USA is so screwed.

Assuming the upgrade will be £20 on the eshop, this price is crazy (and hopefully the upgrades will be less than that)

Had an email from Curry's that they are now accepting pre-orders in-store, hopefully that's useful for some!

ARMS was an amazing game. Brilliant gameplay, fun characters and over 2M sales.

This looks like a tech demo.

23.4GB for MKW is surprisingly big!

£5 for a demo is still £5 too much

Mario Kart World is basically selling for £34 in the bundle which is the same as MK8DX costs when it's on sale!

I feel like they've just inflated the price of Mario Kart to make the bundle look better value. We can see that most games are actually less than this.

@Bobobiwan It is a thing, "Game-Key cards", but not for all games. I don't think any games have been announced to be using this yet.

Assuming these are reusable (not a one-time download) it's a huge improvement over code-in-a-box releases.

Project:;COLD case.mirage

Looks like somebody accidentally put their password in the name field...

I'm highly unlikely to pay to upgrade a Switch game, but likely I'd buy the Switch 2 edition of anything the comes out cross-gen.

Samus' suit is similar to Samus' suit, who knew?

This is always how I assumed it was pronounced

@N00BiSH Yeah this makes a lot of sense for Nintendo, they can avoid relying on social media.

The Mario Kart Lego set isn't even based on the design from Mario Kart 9, so it's clearly not a direct tie-in to the new game.

This isn’t just speculation.

Reader, it's entirely speculation.

I feel like it has to be cross gen. This is nothing like the BOTW situation where buying the Wii U version locked you out of the Switch version. It will automatically work on Switch 2, and I would hope you can just buy a single version of the game that works on both consoles but is enhanced for Switch 2. (And you can begin on Switch 1 and seamlessly transfer your saves to Switch 2 later)

I just don't see how they can make it Switch 2 exclusive after all this time, but also they can't just release a flagship game this close to Switch 2's release that plays exactly the same on their latest hardware.

@StewdaMegaManNerd It's purely for marketing - they want to make it clear to adults (who are the target market) that this is for them, and not merely a child's toy.

@GrailUK I'm going to wait for WiFi 6: Gold Edition

Oh wow, those are terrible. The rap one is possibly worse.

Is this leak actually giving us anything new? We've already seen the dock both in leaked photos and in official renders.

$60 for a 400 piece set isn't cheap, especially as this is likely made from a lot of small elements.

The NES set was really a model TV with Super Mario display, the actual NES model was less than half the set.

@BongoBongo 5.26% if we're being pedantic

Hopefully removing vouchers and gold points means they are doing just this to increase prices and not increasing the base RRP of games by £10/$10.

So basically they just increased all digital prices by 5%. Lovely.

My local GAME has closed now. Seems they are just trying to extract as much profit as possible while they run it into the ground.

I assume Nintendo hasn't given price info to retailers yet, so scouring their databases for prices is basically irrelevant.

@Member_the_game I remember £280 was a lot for Switch given that I'd only paid £199 for a Wii U bundled with 2 games!

Nintendo has never been "nice". Using legal action to take down youtube videos or emulators is just a continuation of what they've always done. "Game Over" by David Sheff describes how ruthless they were in the 80s and 90s.

Magnets are strong in one direction but will more easily slide off each other. I think they solved that not with stronger magnets but with the shape and depth that the joycons go into the side of the Switch body.

This is just blatant IP theft

@WiltonRoots True but an RRP increase will come with a wholesale price increase too, so discounted prices will still rise