Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

Rain Team Pepe said:
When Nintendo reports sold units they count selling stock to retailers.
Before looking into it I thought it was 3.5m or so in the hands of consumers. I found the blog posts and news articles a little misleading.

If I got this wrong I apologize.
I hope Nintendo sells a million more units.
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I hope Nintendo sells 200 million units.
 
Tachibana said:
Is the price of games such a tremendous problem? Every impression of the system and Mario Kart World is punctuated by an avalanche of comments "But the price!". Yet the system seems to sell like hotcakes.
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Looking at things from a purely objective business standpoint, it seems Nintendo still aren't charging enough. They could easily price Mario Kart World at $100 and still turn a profit, yet they don't, and why? Because they care about their loyal fans. And that's the Nintendo difference.
 
Calandrino said:
Looking at things from a purely objective business standpoint, it seems Nintendo still aren't charging enough. They could easily price Mario Kart World at $100 and still turn a profit, yet they don't, and why? Because they care about their loyal fans. And that's the Nintendo difference.
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I'm in their newsletter, and I've had surveys a few times from them. Every survey asked about pricing in some form.

I recall one survey asking if I'd buy Warioware for 49.99 USD, and other people who had the same survey were asked the same question at different price points. The game ended up launching at 49.99 USD.

Nintendo probably has an educated idea what price they should set their games at to maximize profit.
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
This was one of the issues with BOTW that I think came down to the way people are wired. Some saw the world as empty, with nothing to explore. Others saw a full world with lots to explore.

I really liked wandering around with no particular goal, looking at stuff. One of my best friends did not and really didn't enjoy the game.
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It's fun for a while, but you need some progress to entice the player but rupees are pointless and weapons break. So only thing you'd care about are permanent upgrades and armor and those get less interesting. I think it's by the third temple that the novelty wears off.
Calandrino said:
Looking at things from a purely objective business standpoint, it seems Nintendo still aren't charging enough. They could easily price Mario Kart World at $100 and still turn a profit, yet they don't, and why? Because they care about their loyal fans. And that's the Nintendo difference.
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I don't get if this is a parody or not.
am I retarded or not said:
why are they're so many anti nintendo switch 2 content farms
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Company releasing overpriced product with overpriced games after a year of bad press due to hounding an indie company doing their own Pokemon game. The release has both old and new issues with the console, is extremely anti consumer, and in general seems to be done as cheaply as possible to get shit out before tariffs. Also single mediocre game at launch.
 
Tachibana said:
Almost every hobby I partake in has substantially increased in price, yet Nintendo games is the one where people have such a massive hate boner that it's difficult to make up your mind. I'm not seeing guys constantly moaning about the Sony XM6 headphones costing more, or Behringer and Fiio gradually increasing pricing with every new product
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This is Nigger Logic. Sony moved around 18 million headphones in total in 2024. In 2023, Steam alone sold over 580 million copies of games. Gaming is considered a hobby for the masses while high end headphones are very much considered a luxury, and consumers can expect top end headphones to command a premium price, at least to a degree. If youre willing to have lower quality sound, you can buy cheaper headphones and they dont even have to be Sony headphones.

This isnt the case with gaming, especially Nintendo who holds tightly to their pricing models. If you want to play the new Bing Bing Wahoo. You have ONE place to buy it from, and only one price for access. Comparing the two is asinine.

Gamers are pissed that prices of games keep rising because we all know they dont HAVE to. Expedition 33, Schedule 1, hell, even Paradox keeps their new games at $50 base. Nintendo isnt bringing some revolution to gaming with the Switch 2. Theyre bringing greed and expecting you to take it like the good little goy you are.
 
Yeah I don't quite get the mad scramble in the press to shit on the Switch 2. I won't be buying one myself (that hard lockdown and increased pricing put me off) but I'm not going to shit on them for having a successful launch. Shipping 3 million units in a week is pretty good (sold or not, that's a lot of units to get out the door -- plenty of other vendors, not just in gaming, have a lot of trouble producing adequate stock to meet demand) any way you shake it.
 
am I retarded or not said:
why are they're so many anti nintendo switch 2 content farms
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They have to pay for the switch 2 somehow:

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wtfNeedSignUp said:
It's fun for a while, but you need some progress to entice the player but rupees are pointless and weapons break. So only thing you'd care about are permanent upgrades and armor and those get less interesting. I think it's by the third temple that the novelty wears off.
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I just liked setting a destination across the map and spending my play session getting there. It was very refreshing.

But I can see how many people would not be interested in that.
 
WarrenZHarding said:
This is Nigger Logic. Sony moved around 18 million headphones in total in 2024. In 2023, Steam alone sold over 580 million copies of games. Gaming is considered a hobby for the masses while high end headphones are very much considered a luxury, and consumers can expect top end headphones to command a premium price, at least to a degree. If youre willing to have lower quality sound, you can buy cheaper headphones and they dont even have to be Sony headphones.

This isnt the case with gaming, especially Nintendo who holds tightly to their pricing models. If you want to play the new Bing Bing Wahoo. You have ONE place to buy it from, and only one price for access. Comparing the two is asinine.

Gamers are pissed that prices of games keep rising because we all know they dont HAVE to. Expedition 33, Schedule 1, hell, even Paradox keeps their new games at $50 base. Nintendo isnt bringing some revolution to gaming with the Switch 2. Theyre bringing greed and expecting you to take it like the good little goy you are.
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Where are you guys buying your hardware? Is there a negro discount I wasn't aware of?

If 449.99 is a luxury product, where are all these masses gaming? An Xbox Series S is now 379.99, a base PS5 disc edition is 499.99. If you want to play Bing Bing Wahoo games, this is what you have to pay, unless we get a Steam Deck 2 and we get Switch 2 emulation.

I have this ancient PC running off a GTX 1060, it can run most of the shit I've played on Steam in the past year fine. Ender Magnolia, Muse Dash, Tevi, Animal Well, Katamari Damacy, Blasphemous 2. It most likely can't run Expedition 33, it'd probably need a GTX 1070. No matter what way you slice it, Nintendo wants you to pay top dollar for their stuff and comparatively, budget PC gaming is a better deal if you don't care to play their games.
 
People are shocked on this thread because the consol packed with the sequel of the 5th best selling game of all time is selling well.
 
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