Feel like it's worth making this post, especially in light of the last Switch 1 Presentation only a while ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrTVeYm4iIM
Personal Thoughts:
Really, it does just seem to be an attempted linear upgrade of the switch. I had a suspicion a while ago it might be hard to top the Switch era in some respects, so this seems to be more just a matter of new hardware... though for a lot of hardcore gamers (and people of scored), that probably won't do much for them.
I feel like Nintendo at least seems to be subconsciously trying to do a convergent evolution with PCs to some degree, at least with the new mouse controls. I've heard similar things about the next Xbox effectively being a PC, so if they are smart they might try this too.
Raidou Remastered and the New Professor Layton are the only new games that stick out at me right now, and those were announced before this point.
The New Donkey Kong and The Duskbloods seem to be the only real things that might grab major attention.
I hope the freeze in the middle of the stream isn't an ill omen of things to come.
Otherwise, not much of note here, at least to my eyes. Maybe they will pick up from this period of little note once the Nintendo Switch 2's successor arrives next decade, but for now it seems rather quiet.
EDIT: I did just see on that they have seemingly joined the 80$ for a game bandwagon with Mario Kart World Tour. Let's hope this isn't a sign of a worrying trend to come... though fate doesn't seem so kind these days.
Nintendo is seemingly trying to charge $80 USD for Mario Kart World. The EU pricing lists different pricing between physical and digital, so I'm assuming the $80 USD for Mario Kart World is phyiscal pricing, and that digital copies will probably be $70 USD. This sucks, as it was already difficult to justify a lot of Nintendo's game offerings at $60 USD for the amount of time/content you get out of them so them embracing the $70 USD trend feels bad. Physical gamers are especially getting bent over a barrel here, though honestly the physical pricing being higher than digital doesn't surprise me given that cartridges are more expensive than disks. With Switch 1 they offered coins that served as some form of cash back on games for future digital purchases, getting 1% back on physical games and 5% back on digital purchases.
It looks like it's actually $80 for digital, $90 for physical.
imagine not pirating... truly unthinkable
I'll buy shit to support devs, but 90$ base price is too fucking much for me.
yeah 90$ for just the BASE GAME is NUTS
and that's just the BASE game, not including DLC or expansions which could be half of that amount
not to mention Nintendo is going full EA on game ownership
Especially since Nintendo doesn't do price drops like other developers.
Same, supporting developers if they're not trying to reciprocate is just going to lose consumer loyalty. $90 USD is bonkers.
Oh dear...
rofl, 'catridges are more expensive than disks'.
Like ten cents? Twenty cents?
Yeah, there's no reason for a modern cartridge to be anything more than a thumb drive with a proprietary port.
Orders of magnitude.
Discs cost pennies apiece to manufacture. There's a reason you could buy a spindle of blank CDs or DVDs for a few bucks.
Blank thumb drives, at the lowest of the low end, cost dollars to manufacture.
Custom media with custom software installed adds yet more time and complexity that also increase the cost.
That's also ignoring all of the other packaging.
It might not be $10 but it's probably not far off.
Surprised that a statement this dumb would be made on what should be a nominally tech-aware board, but oh well.
The suggestion was that prices have been falling ever since and the flash memory cards they've been using (32 gb) must cost pennies by now.
There's a 5pack of 32gb SD cards at my local Walmart for $11
Aye. The whole cartridges are expensive thing will probably be an excuse that will carry publishers through rising prices for a while.
It's a lie. They want to push you to digital to kill used game sales. That's the same reason they lock content behind a "season pass" or similar nonsense, so it doesn't follow the sale of the media and the new owner has to purchase it themself.
I bet MS and Sony drop discs entirely on their next consoles. Which sucks, because they double as Blu-ray players, so it's one less thing to buy.
Correct. According to this leak, some Switch 2 cartridges are going to be license checks, allowing you to download the game. The game isn't on the cartridge.
Absolute shyte.
Main reason I bought a Switch was for games on the carts; I don't have to worry about them not loading if my internet goes out.
A Switch 2 where the games are on carts just as a licence check is peak clown world in gaming. So 70 quid for a game that doesn't even come on the actual cart? Pure bollocks.
Why in god's name not? The fuck is the point of even offering cartridges if they're just glorified download keys? Get the fuck out of here with that shit.
I guess I'll continue to play Nintendo titles on PC or not at all then.
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/68415/~/nintendo-switch%26nbsp%3B2-game-key-card-overview It ain't a leak. Nintendo is open about it.
It was already crazy expensive to play games on the Switch ( Nintendo dosen't do large discounts like Steam ).
With the anounced Switch2 games prices in the US, I expect the games to cost between CAD$70 et CAD$130, + DLCs.
The console itself ( no game no SD Express card ) is CAD$710 with taxes.
Who is this priced for?
People are idiots.