Nintendo Switch 2 details: Screen size, controllers, storage, microphone chat and games
Nintendo Switch 2 details: Screen size, controllers, storage, microphone chat and games
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Nintendo Switch 2 details: Price, screen size, controllers, microphone chat and games
Um... Wow.
With these prices, they better have one hell of a line up besides a Mario Kart that looks about the same and Street Fighter 6.
I'm very interested on how powerful this thing is if it's price is going to be higher than the LCD Steam Deck and $100 less than the OLED model.
Fun fact, if you adjust for inflation, this machine is only $52 more than the original switch was at launch.
This is basically the originally pricing, adjusted for inflation + Trump’s 20% Chinese manufacturing tariff.
It's also at around the same price point in Europe. I don't think the tarriffs had an effect on the price.
Edit: I was wrong about JP pricing and removed that part.
If that's the case it should be 20% cheaper in other markets where the tariff doesn't exist. Want to take bets?
Good point about inflation.
I'm really curious on how powerful the Switch 2 will be in comparison to the handhelds in the market now.
It's also basically the same console with minor upgrades.
Yeah I distinctly remember N64 games being $60 in the late 90s. We saved a lot with digital downloads vs retail over the years but it is funny that games have largely been level in price for 30 years at this point.
$60 was a lot considering PS1 and Dreamcast games were in the $50 range.
According to an online inflation calculator, from 1996 inflation rose 103.4%. So if game prices followed inflation, $50-$60 games should be $100-$120.
as a Canadian I'm used to everything being expensive as fuck, but I have to draw the line somewhere. this is why piracy exists. I'll probably break down and buy one at the next major Zelda title launch, because I don't get a choice in that. my heart wants what it wants, and I'm getting too old to say no at this point.
If you just want Zelda, a singleplayer game with no expiry / pressure to play while others are playing, you could consider waiting for emulation to catch up. I’m currently enjoying a bunch of singleplayer Switch games on my PC.
Not sure of the official CAD prices, but the $80 USD digital / $90 USD physical game price is $113 / $127 CAD. Absolutely bonkers when compared to Steam, especially with sales.
From a purely hardware standpoint, the Steam Deck LCD panel is awful, 800p/60Hz with no VRR. Switch 2 is 1080p/120Hz w/ VRR. We don't know much about the Switch processor but surely it is at least comparable to the original SD one with those sort of screen specs.
Steam Deck has to be sold at cost at the lowest, mostly because it's just a PC and can be (and has been) used for a myriad of things that don't involve Steam. Nintendo could sell these things at a huge loss and still make money hand over fist because they can't do anything but play Switch games.