Nintendo is going to sell you the Switch 2 FAQ
Nintendo is going to sell you the Switch 2 FAQ
Haha. Oh se at it is! So, beautiful! The map is so *craze.
Wow....$80 for Switch 2 games....I...yeah...that's hard to swallow. While it is true that there are games on Steam that are close to that price ("Dragon's Dogma 2", "Avowed", "Starfield" are all at $69.99 on my Steam store right now), at least the prices go down eventually or will be on a sale. Nintendo produced games like the Marios and such tend to maintain their prices for a long, long time that hardly, if ever, having a sale that rivals a good Steam sale.
We've got a lot of options these days to get our modern gaming on for cheap or even free. My kids probably aren't the greatest litmus for the gaming population at large, but with their age range (out of the dozen, 10 are gamers to some degree with ages from 22 to 9) and many will hop on Roblox to play new hotness like "Dandy's World" for hours. From there it's a handful of PC games like "Stardew Valley", "Project Zomboid", "Helldivers 2" and "Stick Fight" get a lot of play eventually followed by a handful of Switch games. Save for "Helldivers", that's a lot of entertainment for not a lot of money and (again, save for "Helldivers") you don't need a lotta PC to play them. I fixed up a few recycled PCs from 2011-2013, put in SSDs and they've been rockin' for years on the cheap.
I'm not saying Nintendo's sales will take a nose dive but with how things are starting to turn out, people may start looking to other options for their electronic entertainment. And with new games continuing to come out for the original Switch, it'll be interesting to see how many will make the, um, switch on launch.
Well, the big N have yanked all pre-orders, after Trumpy-Poo proclaimed that Japan will be hit with large import tariffs.
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Japan could eliminate all of it's tariffs, effectively nullifying all US counter tariffs.Originally Posted by Greg2600
Nintendo used to manufature it's products in China where workers earn $6.50 per hour, but using the beauty of the free trade system, moved it's manufacturing to Vietnam where workers earn $3 per hour. The ultimate goal of free trade is unpaid forced labor.
I'm sure there are frugal gamers who would applaud slavery. Why don't those gamers just go back to stealing ROM's and burning disks?
GCN Bluetooth controller released at least
Just to break down what really matters.
0. Nintendo should literally just make it a computer system already. Allow room for external GPU ( occulink ), Give the option and drivers for Windows 7-11, Linux, or even OSX installs. The M4 Mac have proven via VMware, we can have DX12. But again this is a driver issue and not a version issue( but again they will lie and make it a version issue ). Just make it a service, and you download the game like GOG and let people enjoy it. There are so many power-house mini-computers now-days in comparison to micro-computers of early glory. We can even daisy-chain GPUs together and they would even fit inside a NES case. The Nintendo variant of Steam would also allow your creative content to run on actual Nintendo hardware. Thus you would be able to get paid in points and cash out...like Crypto ( bit-coin and etc ). The PSP in a nutshell.
I have an idea. Sell people A NES replica machine. With a portable WiiUmote ( which can function as a secondary display/Wacom and Wii / Wii U screen/mote )and have people purchase DLC they do not have to DLC. Run your games over the internet via a connection from your home base or broadcast it to your WiiUmote. Better yet allow your NES replica and WiiUmote to have SIM card power and start an actual phone service that piggy-backs off T-mobile ( like Cricket ) and this way you will not even need any wired internet service at all. Your WiiUmote is your phone/game system and broadcast base for your system.
About that "Blue Ocean Stratergy" where Nintendo just allow people to install an application on there Wii and WiiU consoles so they can virtual pay and virtual play the content limited to the video quality. ( SSH Putty VNC where you can run Termux Linux on a phone from anywhere and open a window to this system from anywhere ). Even allow people to have there Wii / WiiU content compiled and delivered/installed after pay is made. Scraping the sands for salt made cents?
Japan is a nationalist ( for themselves and not for outsiders ) nation..These companies have a mission statement ( the same statement for hiring a man named Bowser over Reggie ) "We need more sales". Well like investing in machines to cash our groceries. When you do not hire people to do work and give them income opportunities that only limit them to paying rent ( which goes straight to that place ). Do you think people will jump on the money to purchase your system?Take Southpark studios. The entire Animating staff are clearly of "Asian decent" all behind second generation Wacoms. Meanwhile that student out there have to"deal with it". Oh and lets not talk about discrimination, favoritism, and the results of that choas.
About Tarrifs. Remember post 9/11 and the violating security screenings to the creation of the Airport security and unrelated HLS. ( which is burning tons of money right now in comparison to forest/urban park ranger who does real work ) Well other nations did just that. Like Egypt where you can not enter the nation with cameras without paying a fee or somebody could walk up to you and tell you to delete specific pictures.
Thanks to Hill-dog not getting out of the way of Bernie Sanders for not telling Hillary to step down because of all those anti-privacy laws that Chris Hansen and Oprah Winfrey supportrs. Where a guy and a gal can not be normal due to age differences like the creator of Spawn and most of our parents. We need to violate somebodys privacy to "Bring them to there heels". Meanwhile a child was violated by his same sex couple. I mean how did that happen? Should be safer then a Religious upbringing home where the only crime that happens was that daddy was mommies baby-sitter/teacher... and mommy help daddy actually function and not create a another "Duck:Carbine High" or "Elephant" scenario. AKA "The love that gives is the love that takes".
Nope but we had to bad-mouth men ( Like George/Elroy Jetson ), AKA the guy who will work in rubbish, study rubbish, and go over time and donate money meanwhile Jane will take the wallet and go spend spend spend. Nope because your a dirty old man who is nine-years-old, according to your peers. Your ugly because your well fed. Why bother even try just lie down and die mentality. = Tarrifs
4. Those Ukriane and innocent Arabic/Islam peeps ( Palestinians ) do not matter one bit. Those piles of bodies, some I probably went to college with or saw in my neighborhood. Where is "Team America" AKA Team USA. Doing nothing outside of evacuating some place allowing for more then four innocent US military service people to get blown up, and one innocent civillian delivering food and water to children to get drone-bombed.
5. People are going to hack it. People are going to pirate it. Why pretend anymore when you ( Nintendo ) botched the original Gameboy Cartridge design. We could have used that design in so many ways like the GBC cartridges did. Take Soundboy ( the MP3/WMV player designed by an African-American person ). We could have PCE, SNES, Genesis, and even CD player add-on. The Gameboy cartridge was perfect.
Just make a portable that looks and feels ( and smells ) like a gameboy. Those Greys, off-colored-reds/purples, that hypnotic green. It is a tablet people, an under-powered tablet that wants to charge you $80 dollars ( but maybe it is a hoax/joke before launch (.
Oh look Donkey Kong Jr ... v. the rock-people who looks like rejects from Conker. Not like the masks from Crash Bandicoot or the Antartic animals from the MSX logo. We made a hip ( who is baddddd ) looking Candy Kong, and now Jr. wears pants
Last edited by Gametrek; 04-08-2025 at 12:15 PM.
Those Gamecube controllers are going to be sold out the microsecond they go on sale and stay that way forever.
I can't tell if that is sarcasm or just the regular Sony/Microsoft doom and gloom Nintendo fans pray for.
So, I feel like Nintendo has a good offering with Switch 2. But, however, I haven’t read or seen everything about something like a PlayStation Next or the continuing line of Xbox. Switch 2 looks good.
Folks said that about the N64 controller and things stabilized....BUUUUTTTT now that I type that, I didn't take into consideration the Smash Bros. factor.
Yeah, they'll be gone for a while. Though I bet if you wanted to sell yours or a loved one's kidney, you could buy one on the 'Bay after launch.
I'm still going to hold out for a while to see what all lands on Switch 2. At first I was excited but with the release price announced month after my excited post at another site, it's a "hold" for now. Unless they release one hum-dinger version of "Animal Crossing" sooner than later. I'm still waiting for Nintendo to make things like arcade machines, tennis tables and the like actually USABLE rather than just be floor trophies. They could be simplistic for all I care but as long as it's basically playable requiring some level of skill, I'd be there.
Preorders are live. Just got one from Target.
Well, at first I believed this, but that's until I saw their prices, the increased game prices, the keycards, etc.
But now I'm back to believing that again as not only are Sony and Microsoft consoles pretty shit now days in terms of variety of games compared to every past generation, but the Nintendo Switch 2 has already sold out of its launch day preorders which people predict are 9-10 million consoles.
There's a few things about this that I'm very sad about. First off, is I will eventually get a Switch 2, once I get 10+ games at reasonable sale prices of $30 or less than I'm actually interested in, how long that's going to take who knows, but let's say I expect around five years if I purchase games that I can't get on any other console and only at $30 or less. The second problem is, the Nintendo faithful cult as annoying as they are, a fanbase I really dislike, were just on their own console praising Miyamoto and delivering their first born children to be sacrificed at his request. All is well there, fine. But now that Nintendo has increased game prices to $80 and these fanboys don't care. It's one thing to only ever purchase Nintendo consoles and follow their blind loyalty, but now by doing so they're going to be throwing $80 at every Nintendo game and you absolutely know that every single company is going to be watching this closely. From pieces of shit like Sony and Microsoft to pieces of shit like Josh Fairhurst(LRG.) I may not have any debt, but I also don't make a lot of money either. I'd like to not sell my body parts on the black market to be able to still collect video games in the modern day but that's what it appears needs to be done and we can thank all the asshole Nintendo fanboys for making this happen(in the near future.)
And some of you here might be Nintendo fanboys, I'm a Sony fanboy, but if you're at this forum odds are you don't ONLY purchase Nintendo consoles. Being a fanboy isn't the problem, it's that most of these Nintendo fanboys are walking unpaid spokespersons for Nintendo and trolling every other community while they're at it. And by buying into this overpriced bs, they're screwing everyone else in the gaming community by telling every other publisher that we're okay with this.
Last edited by kupomogli; 04-28-2025 at 03:41 AM.
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Voting with your wallet almost never works, should I make a list of all the bs that have become common place thanks to the average consumer "voting with their wallet?"
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because the average consumer is not educated well in money management.
I will probably not be getting a switch any time soon. seems like too much monies honestly and frankly there isnt any games i just have to have.
The only reason i have an OG switch is because i wanted something to do while i was traveling and everything i owned was packed up away, most still is, after my life changed.
I kinda want a PS5 though but same thing, nothing i just have to have right now on it...
I knew it. Thanks Nintendo.
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Good Lord! The new games will cost as much as Super Nintendo games did. Who would have thunk it?
classic collusion
Most SNES games didn't cost $80, a lot of RPGs did, but cartridge games for consoles generally did cost more because of the format. Even before CDs though floppy discs and 3.5 disk games were usually around $20-$40, so no, games were not expensive back then as they are today.
Also games back then were never as popular as they were now, how many NES, SNES, and Genesis sold? Consoles never even got close to 100 million units sold until the PS1 when it started to become more acceptable to play games, then the sixth generation sold over 200 million combined, the seventh generation sold more, and then the eight generation(Switch is pretty much a seventh gen console,) sold over 300 million.
These companies aren't desparate for sales like they were back in the 80s and 90s. Nintendo makes a first party game for around 20 million and they're making around a billion in gross profit for that one game(for a good majority of their games.) And that was at $60 each. Nintendo is unsatisfied with a billion in profit, they want 1.3 billion for the same exact sales selling the same exact product for the same exact costs.
Despite the fact though that I don't really even like many of Nintendo's first party games, Nintendo's greed just makes it so that not just their own brainwashed piece of shit fanbase get fucked over, nope, in their desparation for fucking their fanbase out of everything they own, they fuck everyone else over as well. So Nintendo games are going to $80, Microsoft games sare going to $80, Sony games are going to $80, Capcom, EA, Activision, Square Enix, etc, etc, etc. But it doesn't just end with third party AAA publishers who pretty much make dogshit now days anyways. Now that the AAA prices have increased all the indie prices are going to increase as well. LRG was fucking everyone by raising their prices but stopped after $35, well, now that prices are increasing to $80 you can be damn sure LRG is going to be pushing their prices to $45 or higher. And while there are some other publishers that are more reasonable, they're going to increase their prices as well. Indie games across the board digility, for those that don't collect any longer are going to be higher as well. Again, all this because Nintendo set a new maximum, meaning that there's going to be a new minimum, just like when Sony pushed games to $70 and you rarely see games sit at $20 any longer.
What's more ridiculous is that modern gaming prices are so out of control for such garbage that going back to retro collecting actually seems more affordable and cheap by comparison, depending on the console and by game.
I was pretty interested in getting the Switch 2, you can go back and read my posts prior to finding out about the pricing, the game key cards, the fact that Nintendo pretty much just wants to fuck everyone, give them money but ultimately leave you with nothing, so fuck the Switch 2. I'm certainly not buying it now.
Kirby Air Riders, more like Kirby Dick Riders amirite?
Last edited by kupomogli; 05-05-2025 at 05:58 AM.
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You might want to adjust those numbers for inflation.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
Last edited by Kid Fenris; 05-05-2025 at 12:03 PM.
Inflation doesn't mean jack shit when these consoles are selling at a profit day one. The consoles back then despite "technically" being more today, were less profitable and were a loss at launch. The consoles were sold at a loss to gain on the back end when it comes to games being sold. So the inflation argument goes straight out the window when each console today is making money, the second they are purchased.
Again, as I stated, there are several hundred million people playing games today than compared to back then. Nintendo was worth $25 billion dollars back then, and according to "inflation" that would be $44 billion dollars today. Well, good thing inflation is bullshit because Nintendo is a $100 billion dollar company right now.
Inflation is an argument made up by corporate stooges who feel the need to advertise for their masters. Inflation is nothing more than an excuse for rising costs for goods and services that companies think they can funnel out of the consumers, If the consumers can't pay and they won't pay, then that's a loss to the company, so that really means that means $70 now on PS5 is $80 back on the SNES, because no one would be paying $200 per game and all of these companies would go out of business. You have to be willing to pay for the bullshit and since no one would be willing to pay, again, that makes the inflation argument pointless. So they're selling at a profit day one, making record breaking products, no one would buy them if they were charging inflated prices, etc. Inflation is a bullshit excuse.
Oh, and one more thing. If we were to use inflation as example, consoles and games have had a history of quickly dropping in price up to the last generation. Something which has stopped now with the arrival of limited print games holding their value, digital selling more and less physical media out on the market, etc, but aside from Nintendo first party games, consoles(including Nintendo consoles,) and games from all other publishers would be much cheaper within six months to a year. A $50 PS1 game at launch isn't a $50 PS1 game six months after launch, etc. And I could be wrong, but didn't Dark Stone, Spec Ops, and some others launch at $10? Maybe they just dropped in price that fast.
But again, just shows that inflation is bullshit and these price drops are because most people are unwilling to pay these launch day asking prices. I certainly won't ever buy a game for $70 and I haven't. I said it way back then when Sony increased the price, hell, I rarely buy shit for $60. Ys10 and that was a mistake, game is a piece of shit, and it was a piece of shit that I spent $60 on. Waste of fucking money. Coincidentally Ys9 was the last $60 game prior to Ys10.
Last edited by kupomogli; 05-05-2025 at 08:31 PM.
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