PigLick on 2/4/2025 at 23:42
I know there are some Switch players here, anyone excited after the Switch 2 Nintendo direct?
You can play as the moo moo meadows cow in the new Mario Kart. Sold.
henke on 3/4/2025 at 04:50
[video=youtube;1uGRs-ispRU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uGRs-ispRU[/video]
Yeah I watched it, it had a lot of cool stuff!
The thumbstick broke on one of my joycons recently and I am NOT shelling out for replacements so I shall be buying the Switch 2.
I am HYPED about:
-BOTW & TOTK upgrades
-GameCube games in NSO
-Duskbloods
-Red Faction Gorilla
Aja on 3/4/2025 at 06:38
I'm hyped for all of the above plus Metroid Prime 4, baby, which should be fun to play with a weird skinny mouse! Price seems kinda high although I guess if it's as powerful as Steam Deck it makes sense. I wish they'd gone with OLED, but 120Hz is a good consolation prize because it means games can run without stuttering at 40 FPS, which might help with some of the more taxing graphics.
heywood on 3/4/2025 at 20:42
I think I'll give it a pass. The price is high and my kids & I don't use the Switch as much as I thought we would. When we're at home playing on the TV, we fire up the old Wii as often as the Switch.
Pyrian on 4/4/2025 at 16:20
Quote Posted by heywood
The price is high...
Yeah about that.
They've retracted the $450 price for now as they try to figure out what to do about tariffs. Apparently the Switch 2 is made in Vietnam (source: Some random person in Discord) and the Trump tariff rate on Vietnam is listed as a whopping 46%. Assuming all that holds (not bloody likely IMO) and Nintendo keeps their take the same, they'll need to charge $833 USD just to cover the tariff.
Renault on 4/4/2025 at 16:44
The Switch definitely needed an upgrade, but I'll probably wait until at least a new Zelda game comes out. I love the Metroid Prime games too, but I still haven't finished the 2nd or 3rd one.
That said, no way I'm paying 80 bucks for Mario Kart.
Jason Moyer on 4/4/2025 at 16:56
I'll do what I've been doing with consoles my entire adult life. Wait until the good first party games come out and grab it when it's discounted and been out for 5-6 years with all of the hardware/software upgrades and bugs sorted out. I'm looking forward to seeing how the backwards compatibility is, it would be sweet if stuff that is iffy on the Switch like the Arkham games would benefit from the extra horsepower. But yeah, considering I just bought an OLED Switch in November and have like 2,000 games in my backlog I'm good for awhile.
PigLick on 5/4/2025 at 03:56
yeh actually looking at the prices here in Australia, I might hold off until the (hopefully) inevitable pre xmas price drop. It's $769 here for the Mario Kart bundle, and 699 just for the console alone. And games are gonna be close to the 100 mark.
Yeh, ouch.
heywood on 7/4/2025 at 17:21
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Yeah about that.
They've retracted the $450 price for now as they try to figure out what to do about tariffs. Apparently the Switch 2 is made in Vietnam (source: Some random person in Discord) and the Trump tariff rate on Vietnam is listed as a whopping 46%. Assuming all that holds (not bloody likely IMO) and Nintendo keeps their take the same, they'll need to charge $833 USD just to cover the tariff.
$450 isn't that bad. But if it's $700-800, that's probably too much for me. I hoped these ridiculous tariff rates were just a negotiation tactic, but we just rejected Vietnam's offer to negotiate. Peter Navarro was on Fox yesterday explaining the rejection, saying it's not a negotiation and even if both sides had zero tariffs there would still be a $120B trade deficit. Howard Lutnick was on CBS's Face the Nation saying basically the same thing. These guys were saying the tariffs are here to stay (or until Congress acts obviously). It's barking mad.
Quote Posted by PigLick
yeh actually looking at the prices here in Australia, I might hold off until the (hopefully) inevitable pre xmas price drop. It's $769 here for the Mario Kart bundle, and 699 just for the console alone. And games are gonna be close to the 100 mark.
Yeh, ouch.
Nintendo game prices are getting tougher to swallow. Cross platform console games from the big publishers are usually gimped on the Switch. I understand and accept that graphics quality and frame rates may be lower, but multiplayer is often sub-par and sometimes there are game modes not available on the Switch for inexplicable reasons. Yet the game prices don't reflect that. So unless we really want to play a game away from home, it's hard to justify buying it on Switch instead of XBox. Switch exclusives are different, but they're mostly Nintendo franchises that I've been playing forever and they are (literally) getting a bit old. The open world Zelda games were worth trying, but I'm really not sure I want an open world Mario Kart game for $80. So for me, Steam Deck is looking like the better option.
Subjective Effect on 13/4/2025 at 14:50
So I decided to get one of these instead of a PS5Pro.
I've never owned a Nintendo console before, unless you count any current mini-SNES but that has preloaded games and no internet of course. I'm a bit confused as to what I need and can can get for the Switch 2. If I want to play 2 player with the joy-con charging handle thing plus an advanced controller do? And can I get a bunch of Switch 1 games for it?. I'm going to be getting the Zelda games, but enhanced versions. Other than that what other older games can you get? The Nintendo website isn't the easiest.
