Nintendo needs to get humbled every couple of generations.

Amazon UK have just discounted the Switch 2 form £499 to £385.

I'm rooting for the demise of what Nintendo currently is, but this isn't so much of a story. They had lofty projections for sales and manufacturing to make sure that they could meet demand, they've met that demand, and it's high. This is revising one quarter's production down from 6M to 4M. It's still doing well for them.

I’d love to get a Switch 2, but $500 + $70/per game is just too steep for me.

People ain't got no money.

As a long time Nintendo fan since the NES, Switch 2 is the first Nintendo console (except Virtual Boy, I suppose) that I did not go out and purchase day 1. I still have no real interest.

I like physical carts and the idea that a cart is really just a license key to download a game is a no-go for me right from the start. $80 games. So heavily tied to the online account that any ban, accidental or otherwise, effectively bricks the console. No games that interst me (other than Metroid, which I just bought for Switch 1).

Add all that together and I don’t know if/when I will ever get a S2 at this point. Maybe in a few years second hand. We’ll see.

Why would I spend that much for a system only to play the same games I've already played on five other fucking systems? If you look at all the games you can play on switch 2 right now nearly all of them are from previous generation consoles.

And if that's not bad enough, they charge full fucking price for the remakes too. You want to play a game that came out 15 years ago on the Wii? Well get ready to pay 60 fucking dollars for the privilege of paying for the same game for the third time.

Oh but you wanted to play in 4K? Cough up another $10 or $20 for the switch 2 upgrade.

Nintendo is smoking some serious fucking crack when it comes to the pricing of their shit.

Fuck all that. Get a steam deck or similar machine that can also play PC games and can emulate anything from the switch one or Wii U.

I recently almost purchased a switch 2, but after seeing the pricing structures and the lack of new original titles, I said no. I'm currently playing breath of the wild in the Cemu emulator at 4K on my TV at 120 FPS with all the bells and whistles including surround sound using the gaming laptop that I purchased 2 years ago. Game plays flawlessly and fully supports my dual sense controller that I already own. Saved myself a ton of money.

Games costing $70+ is a giant turn off for me with that console. I would like portable cyberpunk, but I'm not buying that several year old game for $70

My favorite part of the steam deck is how I didn't have to pay to "upgrade" the games I already own.

Oh and how I didn't have to buy my game library again

I loved my Switch but wasn't planning on getting a 2 due to cost of device and new games. I was gifted one for Xmas, and while I enjoy it, outside Mario Kart (that came with it) I haven't found a new title made specifically for S2 that I wouldn't buy for the other consoles or PC. I'm just playing some older catalog stuff, or games that I would prefer on the go. There's no new Zelda, Mario, Splatoon, nothing 1st party to keep driving a console. It boggles my mind they didn't have more 1st party lined up for the first year of launch

personally, I've been hesitant to buy because Nintendo is willing to brick consoles for people using 3rd party software. otherwise, I'm just waiting for splatoon 4 to come out to buy it. I can wait for an emulator for anything else :p

Nintendo definitely learning the wrong lesson from this:

• The Right Lesson: Maybe we shouldn't released an expensive console, with only a handful of new games and tons of repeat releases that are $70 (and suck) especially in a really bad global economy, and some of those games dont even have a real physical copy, and stop treating our fans like they are literally Hitler because they are passionate about our products.

• The Wrong Lesson: People must not want powerful hardware and physical games anymore.

The switch 2 costs considerably more in the US than elsewhere thanks to the tariffs. That tax is going to suppress sales no matter what, and there are other economic pressures that harm most people's buying power as well

Expensive console + $80 games - decent amount of games = Fuck Nintendo???

My friend has been liking his but even moreso misses the Steam Deck he had stolen. And now can't replace.

Wasn't it the fastest selling console, at least for some time? So many people who wanted one will already have one.

And one day the whole world was priced out of everything. Forgive our corporate overlords for they know not what they do. (Just kidding, they know).

I like it it’s just too damned expensive for what seems to be a minor upgrade from the switch. I mean the main differences are power, storage, display, and controller design and since my switch sits in the docking station and we use external controllers most of those are negated.

I haven’t seen a game that would justify it at this point.

There aren't enough appealing Switch 2 games at least for me, the price should go down and I rather wait for that EU model with easier battery-swapping.

Switch 2 has several games that would've pushed me to buy it. Mario Kart World, DK Bonanza and Pokopia all look like I'd enjoy them a lot. I just can't afford it.

they got too greedy, why would I buy a system with games that expensive? Maybe once the library is full and there are people reselling their used copies for cheaper I'll jump in, but for now I'm holding the line at 60.

Well when you funnel everything to 1% eventually nobody can buy. That's the whole point of the system.

They've half-assed every game since BOTW. The systems aren't the problem.