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@Spider-Kev my mom had a windows phone and I really liked it as well. At that time I was a blackberry user.

@Jester676 I have an iPhone 11. I still have to pay for lightning to aux adapters.

@Spider-Kev turned into an apple product. Maybe the phone you can justify but everything else is robbery disguised as inflation.

@electrolite77 sorry I didn’t see him reference wii u numbers. That’s insane.

@electrolite77 you share nintendos same confidence and or pride. And we all know pride goes before the fall.

@Solid_Python except how many casuals buy $500 systems. And then get to me how many casuals buy $500 in uncertain economic times?

Enthusiasts have to buy this for it to be successful.

@Jhena when people like me say $80 is the end of my gaming days people laugh me off. We shall see how they treat your kind on your way out.

@Banjo- paid DLC got you covered

@sanderev wait a second. You don’t want the billion dollar company to treat the customer like a charity but you want the customer to treat the business like a charity as if the money from these increases will go to the developers. It’s going to the shareholders holders.

Other companies sell a fraction of the units that Nintendo games do and then they eventually go in deep discount. The fact that they are selling way more units plus only go as low as 33% off means that Nintendo has a winning strategy. Take away gold points and vouchers and Nintendo is even better off.

The very best selling call of duty sold 43 million.
Mario Kart 8 deluxe sold 68 million.

Nintendo has its money right. They just want more money.

@sanderev you need to continue to eat. But you could continue to play Mario kart 8 deluxe.

@Zufolobelisk at 13:34 in the Nintendo of America mario kart world direct when discussing local wireless play in small font at the bottom of the screen…

“Additional games, systems and or accessories may be required for multiplayer mode. games, systems and some accessories sold separately.”

Good job Nintendo. Good Job.

Sounds like you need multiple copies of the game to wireless local play. Good work nintendo. Good work.

Must be inflation not greed

@electrolite77 every year gas and wages go up. Yet prices fell. You have to solely lean on semiconductors as your argument. Tv prices continue to fall. Other electronics have gotten cheaper. I’m confused why these electronics are the outlier.

I’d also like to hear about these wages were talking about when discussing china electric company factory workers. Not too long ago apple employees were committing suicide at work. Am I to believe that the Nintendo factory is paying a respectable wage at the assembly factory?

@electrolite77 it’s greed. This is the first console generation ever that consoles went up. People are greedy in 2025. That doesn’t mean it costs more to make.

Doesn’t really matter anyways since Xbox and PlayStation have been selling consoles now for five years. Those that wanted one have one.

@Nintoz why do you really want to like it?

All of the comments of I never want to play a person in a wheel chair is partially how I believe Nintendo got to the art style. They wanted one to be inclusive and help those with accessibility issues to feel included and cool. Two they wanted the general public to look at wheelchairs more favourably than pity. I don’t mind the art direction but the game itself looks terrible and I’m never using mouse controls. Bring back punch out please.

For the record in my complaints about pricing I said I didn’t need gimmicks. I just wanted a system to play first party games in 4k. A tv model would have worked for me. Based on the games everyone wants (Mario kart world, donkey Kong, breath of the wild 4k) I think even if most of you want traditional games too. Gimmicks tend to suck.

@KingMike you’re buying it for Nintendo first party games. How many of us actually used the joy con as a controller off the switch. We could get rid of that gimmick like the lite did. How many of us played games with those joy cons that needed motion control like 1-2 switch, arms or the first Mario party? Not many and even though Nintendo pushed this there was no arms 2 and they eventually made a buttons only Mario party. HD rumble. It’s a big name but how often was it used. Just a lot of gimmicks which make the hardware more expensive and in the joy cons case with those sticks unreliable. When the Wii u was out people were like oh I can’t imagine playing mario kart without a map on my big plastic gimmick touch screen. Yet look at how well Mario kart sold. Apparently a big button to honk your horn was not needed and perhaps Wii u would have done better without the gimmick which added a cost to the console.

Id saw what Nintendon did with Mario Kart and had a brilliant idea. These people are suckers!!!!

@electrolite77 I think if Microsoft and Sony manage to take loses on their consoles then Nintendo can afford to do it. I think if Microsoft and Sony can manage to sell their games at 70 then Nintendo can afford to do it. Those game prices arent a loss so I’m very confused why it costs nintendo so much to make a game. Actually I’m not confused. They can get away with it so they are. Or they think they can get away with it.

What if you don’t care about open world? Everything open world. Yeahhhhj

@WiiWareWave there is no proof because no one has the console. Which is why digital foundry uses comparables. You can’t just take everything nintendo tells you at face value. The games are 4k or are they 4k through DLSS? That’s a big difference.

@molkom I have five switches. That sounds unhappy?

It is an improvement. Again I guess there’s just a lot of stuff I am never going to use but I’m being forced to pay for.

The screen. I only play docked
The joy cons. I’ll be using a pro controller
The battery. Don’t need that if it’s always docked.
The mouse controls. I’m more often playing at a tv on a couch so not going to use that.

I’d like to know about the wifi. You had to have every switch dock next to each other not to have communication breakdowns when playing system link. I’d like to know this is fixed.

Of course I am happy it’s 4k. I have a 100 inch tv. 4k matters!!!! But Nintendo fans for so long tried to make it sound like it didn’t. Magically it matters. No kidding. It matters when your company has it.

I’m going to be very honest. I can barely see the graphical update from Mario kart 8 to Mario kart world!

I also think there isn’t many first party games. Zelda spin off won’t buy. Donkey Kong is a yes. Mario kart only because it’s in a bundle. Kirby what are we doing. Why are we getting two kart racers in such a short time and the justification of no analogue buttons is crazy. They matter at least on a pro controller. I won’t be buying F1 on this thing that’s for sure.

@electrolite77 it’s a problem of the company if the people who once bought your products can no longe afford it. You have no one to sell it to or less people to sell it to.

@Jester676 you’re airing Nintendo prime as a reliable source e. Gtfo with that silly talk.

@ChakraStomps it is inline. However those techs were released before all this global uncertainty. Maybe I’m an old man with kids and responsibilities but I’m going to save money in such times not spend more.

Also I enjoyed Nintendo for its more often affordability. Now we’re here in apple territory and I have to rethink my priorities.

Also Nintendo fans one year. We don’t need ps4/5 graphics ours are good enough. Here’s a new Nintendo with ps4/5 graphics. Damn it I need that. Wtf did you think donkey Kong was going to look like. Of course it was going to look better. We all knew that. But we didn’t need it in this form factor if this was the price attached.

@Banjo- don’t worry. Wherever you work they care about your kids. Will send you an added cheque to cover the cost of this system and it’s games. That’s how this works apparently.

@Tober can I compare to happy meals. This is where my fast food budget has led me. Plus I get mindxraft toys. Again I’m in the over 200k territory. It’s not can’t afford it’s simply not buying things I think are overpriced.

@Dr_Awkward hey doc. I can afford it. Just because I can afford it doesn’t mean I think it’s good value. Just accepting prices the way you are suggesting emboldens companies.

@blindsquirrel I can love at the price for a hybrid at the power level but the price is so high they should have considered their family market and offered a lower price tv only version. Except that would be hard to do without showing the large discrepancy in price.

@Jester676 or you sell a console for a few select games and the rest of the time it collects dust.

In the good old days we could also rent consoles. Imagine that.

@Jester676 and eventually digital foundry can buy it and see all of its faults.

Car fax only shows so much. If you think that’s the whole picture I would not want to buy a used car with you. But you’re also the one taking Nintendo (the company selling you something) at its word and the neutral company with no horse in the race as spreaders of misinformation. Yikes.

@Citrus_Architect my dad worked for a tv channel and was always upset with Napster and stealing tv. He would always say who is paying for those billion dollar satellites. Except now he’s retired and every year the cable bill goes up. And he starts to complain. Wskmeone has to pay for those satellites dad. Those are long paid off and instead the customer gets stuck with more hidden fees.

Theres a reason iTunes took off. No viruses and reasonable pricing. There’s a reason Netflix took off. Simple to use cheap to subscribe. Once you hit a certain price though people are going to screw the man. That’s life. They don’t need to be this greedy.

@Jester676 for all of series S shortcomings Microsoft was not scared to share its information. This is like being at a used car dealer and they don’t want you to bring your mechanic to inspect it. Could very well be hiding something.

@johnvboy I think the problem is that inflation does happen the worst when customers blindly pay anything. The company thought oh you’ll pay this then shoot maybe next time you’ll pay more. And it’s a cycle. There’s no difference in the quality of the Walmart Reebok sweater than the Nike store Nike sweater. But there is a price difference because people want the Nike. Is that inflation, greed or supply demand. Either way when I feel ripped off my immediate response isn’t to shrug and say “inflation” but instead to vote with my wallet.

@Max_the_German I think I owned a whopping 10 N64 games and I came from an upper middle class family. We rented everything else. On my switch I must have 60-80 games. Thata a big difference. But how do I have so many games? We can buy them for less than n64 carts. It was the carts themselves which were pricy not so much the development. What is the reason for Nintendos prices which take less development time then a ps5 or series X game to cost so much? Most of us are buying digital.

@Jester676 we only have comparables and that is solely Nintendos fault. They could send a console to digital foundry but they aren’t. What does that tell you?

@KritterXD correct. I just bought a 2002 Camry with 68k kms for 4000 because i don’t agree with these prices. It is a luxury but people on here are seemingly dismissing those of us who are passing on this product as the vocal minority. I’m not so sure. We’re definitely hardcore Nintendo users. If there’s a lot of us passing perhaps after the initial launch where the hardcores do buy it that the casuals pass. Video games soared in the pandemic with casuals because we had nothing to do but also because the price was right. The switch was cheaper and there was a lite option. If there’s casuals do not buy this company as big as they are will need to back track.

@sanderev except I can buy better versions of street fighter on my Xbox for significantly less. Why would I pay more for ports just for portability that I do not need.

All of the ports will have similar pricing to Nintendos first party games yet will be able to be found elsewhere for less. Often times a lot less. I think the reality check is that these ports should fall in line with whatever the prices are on current consoles. But that won’t happen. So although I need to buy groceries I don’t need to buy a lot of Nintendo products.

Finally why did inflation hit Nintendos games all of a sudden but not PlayStation or Xbox. At some point it’s not inflation it is just company greed in profits. These games take the cost of a ps4 development team and that is significantly less than a ps5 development team so please make sense of this for me.

@OldGamer999 you feel? You and I are absolutely paying extra for something we will not use.

@Anakin what is the misinformation skywalker.

@jimmyjames be honest. In those days we bought few games and spent our allowances at blockbuster on the weekend renting games. Unless video game renting is coming back I don’t think this is a fair comment.

I guess every third party game will be rented via gamepass and Nintendo will only get my money on select first party games I can’t get anywhere else.

Maybe I’ll buy a high end PC and just pirate everything. Haven’t done this since Napster but life will find a way.

@NorrinRadd I was being nice with the ps4 pro comparison so that the Nintendo fans don’t crucify me before Easter.

Btw owned every Nintendo console in its history minus virtual boy and am the owner of five switches and in my old house had a DK arcade machine. Grew up in a bed room with Mario wallpaper and Zelda bed sheets. Currently in an house with Nintendo decals. Also won a Nintendo championship competition at the CNE in torontos when I was a kid. But apparently a hater and not a fan.

@Jester676 digital foundry is super credible. They knew and tested the series S almost before anyone else and before it was public. You may not like digital foundry because they tend to get into the specs which isn’t Nintendos forte but to say they spread misinformation is not true. Could they make a mistake yes. Would they admit to the mistake yes. But they are not a channel based on spreading misinformation in order to get clicks.

@GrailUK I’m glad you want a portable so much you’re willing to pay almost anything. I’m a simple person with a tv and a pro controller.

@Altaria_97 hey what if you don’t want a gimmick. I didn’t want a Wiimote. I didn’t want the Wii u game pad. Xbox was at least smart enough to drop the prebundled Kinect. And then Xbox was smart enough to release 2 skus. But we’re not in the Nintendo doing its buyers any favours world. We’re in the nickel and diming world.

@StewdaMegaManNerd how bout you ditch the battery and the screen and just sell a tv only model for less. Hybrid for those that need that. TV only for the cheapos like me.

I just hope we get a new Nvidia shield so we can find out how much an actual tv only version of the switch 2 would have cost.

@StewdaMegaManNerd were comparing apples to oranges though. If the ps6 does come out at this rate it will be 2040 before nintendo catches up. Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s worth X dollars.

@Jester676 Nintendo hasn’t actually released specs. It’s like it’s 4k 60fps trust us. Oh wait there’s some VRR and DLSS in there. Forgot to mention that. Please understand.