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

[ChristianKiwi]

If 449.99 is a luxury product, where are all these masses gaming?

People are just financing and/or paying it using their credit cards. A lot of people are financially illiterate and have considerable debt.
Gaming is considered a casual hobby because people usually choose one or two consoles/pc and just stick with that without bothering to get any of the other offerings because it's too expensive - we just think nothing of it due to its history and the ability to game on a budget. It IS a luxury product, we just don't treat it as such.

 

[Slav Power]

In GTAV you can cause chaos, shoot people, run people over, and blow shit up which is literally the entire appeal of the series.

And guess who did it better, and earlier.

 

[whatever I feel like]

The real reason the Switch 2 broke those sales records isn't demand, its supply. They've been stocking up for literally over half a year (Famiboards autists detected the shipping transactions to North America in November of last year.) If PS5 and even XBO had 4 or even 5 million units to sell in 2020 they would have. Instead that money was left on the table due to supply constraints.

 

[Tachibana]

People are just financing and/or paying it using their credit cards. A lot of people are financially illiterate and have considerable debt.
Gaming is considered a casual hobby because people usually choose one or two consoles/pc and just stick with that without bothering to get any of the other offerings because it's too expensive - we just think nothing of it due to its history and the ability to game on a budget. It IS a luxury product, we just don't treat it as such.

When I was a kid, my parents couldn't afford every game that came out. But back then, rental stores still existed.

The real reason the Switch 2 broke those sales records isn't demand, its supply. They've been stocking up for literally over half a year (Famiboards autists detected the shipping transactions to North America in November of last year.) If PS5 and even XBO had 4 or even 5 million units to sell in 2020 they would have. Instead that money was left on the table due to supply constraints.

I passed by a local Gamestop this week, and the manager told me that he was very surprised by the demand. The point that was far more interesting is he seemed to think that everything else around the Switch 2 was under expectations. That is, accessories and games. People who bought the Mario Kart bundle didn't tend to buy anything else.

 

[Markorian]

Wow, 3.5 million out of 152 million switches? Can anyone say #flop?

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

People being upset at others spending their own money ? Really ?

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Apologies for being days late, but almost all of the hype for the Nintendo Switch 2 openings have come from the form of Germans/Swiss

As seen on yewtu.be:



Putting aside the early pre-order openings in different countries, does anyone else notice this on YouTube? It seems like the Germans know something that we don’t.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

People being upset at others spending their own money ? Really ?

This is Kiwi Farms, if you’re not mad at the internet, you’re not doing it right.

 

[Looney Troons]

I got gifted a Switch 2 from a work raffle. It came with Mario Kart World. I played on it for a good twenty minutes before powering the thing off and placing it into storage. I’m going to keep it unpatched in hopes that the homebrew scene does something interesting with it.

I’m not a hard sell but after ten years of Mario Kart 8, that offering felt really sterile. I don’t even think it looked much better.

 

[Professional Noticer]

But genuinely, why would someone buy a switch 2 now? Sure, when there is a new Pokemon or Zelda, I understand. Even if its feeding the 90 dollar game market, I get it, people grew up with these, they wanna play the next one.

But buying one right now? For what? Playing Mario Kart? Come the fuck on.

Everyone knows that buying a console on release is a huge mistake, they often have issues (like Xbox 360 RROD) and unless there is one (or several) huge system seller game, you avoid it and wait for things to calm down. You get a better console, either because its a new version with improved inner works, or a new color, special edition, or bundled with a game, or the best case scenario, a discount (Wii U).

I don't get into console wars because this shit was gay in the Sega Mega Drive vs Super Nintendo days and its still gay today, but Nintendo really has the biggest retards as a fanbase.

 

[GlupShitto]

People being upset at others spending their own money ? Really ?

When it actively makes gaming worse? Yes. Same as donations to Democrats, abortion clinics, and troon groups.

 

[Enig]

Since there’s two USB ports on it now when is someone going to realize that we can now RETVRN to link cables

 

[Buttigieg2020]

But buying one right now? For what? Playing Mario Kart? Come the fuck on.

To avoid the mid-gen price increase that every other console /pc components manufacturer has done so far lol.

 

[Fcret]

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.

It is if you're a third-worlder, NEET, or literal child. And that's a pretty big chunk of the commenters for Nintendo content. Normies just buy things and don't engage with this stuff.

I think there's a lot of factors at work. The Switch was the most affordable console for a long time, especially if you bought it second-hand. It gave you access to an up-to-date gaming platform for relatively little money. For an American, the difference between $200 and $450 is not really significant - both are well within impulse buy territory for a working adult here. For a southeast asian or brazilian or something, $450 is basically a full month's wages so it becomes much harder to justify. But even if they can't justify the purchase, there's still a feeling of FOMO and being left behind which doesn't feel great and leads to resentment.

But genuinely, why would someone buy a switch 2 now? Sure, when there is a new Pokemon or Zelda, I understand. Even if its feeding the 90 dollar game market, I get it, people grew up with these, they wanna play the next one.

To play Switch 1 games at decent framerates and resolutions. Most people I know are going through their backlog on it now that games don't run like complete ass.

 

[残念。]

When it actively makes gaming worse? Yes. Same as donations to Democrats, abortion clinics, and troon groups.

This just in, buying a Nintendo console is just as bad as killing babies and chopping dicks.

 

[UtadaWasabi2]

Bing bing wahoo soon bro.
I hope I can finish Pokeyman dlc this time.

 

[73_Autistic_Fuck_54]

Echoes of wisdom and paper Mario ttyd should have been launch titles for the switch 2, I don't know why they had to rush them out for the switch 1

 

[whatever I feel like]

But genuinely, why would someone buy a switch 2 now? Sure, when there is a new Pokemon or Zelda, I understand. Even if its feeding the 90 dollar game market, I get it, people grew up with these, they wanna play the next one.

But buying one right now? For what? Playing Mario Kart? Come the fuck on.

Everyone knows that buying a console on release is a huge mistake, they often have issues (like Xbox 360 RROD) and unless there is one (or several) huge system seller game, you avoid it and wait for things to calm down. You get a better console, either because its a new version with improved inner works, or a new color, special edition, or bundled with a game, or the best case scenario, a discount (Wii U).

I don't get into console wars because this shit was gay in the Sega Mega Drive vs Super Nintendo days and its still gay today, but Nintendo really has the biggest retards as a fanbase.

Honestly, there's a worry now that instead of going down over time, the price of a console will actually go up (certainly has been the case for everything except the base model PS5 post-Covid,) so why not go early and own the thibg for longer?

 

[Fcret]

Echoes of wisdom and paper Mario ttyd should have been launch titles for the switch 2, I don't know why they had to rush them out for the switch 1

My guess is that they intended the Switch 2 to be out by late 2023, early 2024. The SoC platform it's based on came out in 2022 and they were likely building a bunch of a games with the intention of them being launch titles for the Switch 2. However, Nvidia took off for AI and automotive in 2022 and I imagine Nintendo couldn't get a favorable enough deal on the SoC to hit the price they wanted to sell the console at, so it got pushed back several years.

 

[Zaireeka]

Apologies for being days late, but almost all of the hype for the Nintendo Switch 2 openings have come from the form of Germans/Swiss

As seen on yewtu.be:

Putting aside the early pre-order openings in different countries, does anyone else notice this on YouTube? It seems like the Germans know something that we don’t.

Yewtu.be is hosted in Germany, so it would make sense for the platform to recommend German videos when the "Nintendo Switch 2" name is common across all languages.

I use inv.nadeko.net which is hosted in Chile, so I get a lot of Spanish results when searching for "Nintendo Switch 2". Stock YouTube recommends a lot of English-language videos, which appear to be the most popular of the bunch.