Nintendo Switch 2 details: Screen size, controllers, storage, microphone chat and games
Nintendo Switch 2 details: Screen size, controllers, storage, microphone chat and games
Nintendo will launch game titles including "Mario Kart World" and "Street Fighter 6" alongside the new hardware.
The Switch 2 will hit store shelves on June 5 for $449.99.
Mario Kart World will cost $80, an increase from $60, which is what Nintendo charged for Switch games.
Um... Wow.
With these prices, they better have one hell of a line up besides a Mario Kart that looks about the same and Street Fighter 6.
I'm very interested on how powerful this thing is if it's price is going to be higher than the LCD Steam Deck and $100 less than the OLED model.
Fun fact, if you adjust for inflation, this machine is only $52 more than the original switch was at launch.
This is basically the originally pricing, adjusted for inflation + Trump’s 20% Chinese manufacturing tariff.
If that's the case it should be 20% cheaper in other markets where the tariff doesn't exist. Want to take bets?
Good point about inflation.
I'm really curious on how powerful the Switch 2 will be in comparison to the handhelds in the market now.
Yeah I distinctly remember N64 games being $60 in the late 90s. We saved a lot with digital downloads vs retail over the years but it is funny that games have largely been level in price for 30 years at this point.
$60 was a lot considering PS1 and Dreamcast games were in the $50 range.
According to an online inflation calculator, from 1996 inflation rose 103.4%. So if game prices followed inflation, $50-$60 games should be $100-$120.
as a Canadian I'm used to everything being expensive as fuck, but I have to draw the line somewhere. this is why piracy exists. I'll probably break down and buy one at the next major Zelda title launch, because I don't get a choice in that. my heart wants what it wants, and I'm getting too old to say no at this point.
If you just want Zelda, a singleplayer game with no expiry / pressure to play while others are playing, you could consider waiting for emulation to catch up. I’m currently enjoying a bunch of singleplayer Switch games on my PC.
Not sure of the official CAD prices, but the $80 USD digital / $90 USD physical game price is $113 / $127 CAD. Absolutely bonkers when compared to Steam, especially with sales.
I'm very interested on how powerful this thing is if it's price is going to be higher than the LCD Steam Deck
From a purely hardware standpoint, the Steam Deck LCD panel is awful, 800p/60Hz with no VRR. Switch 2 is 1080p/120Hz w/ VRR. We don't know much about the Switch processor but surely it is at least comparable to the original SD one with those sort of screen specs.
Steam Deck has to be sold at cost at the lowest, mostly because it's just a PC and can be (and has been) used for a myriad of things that don't involve Steam. Nintendo could sell these things at a huge loss and still make money hand over fist because they can't do anything but play Switch games.
If you just want the tech specs and don't want to read a full article, Nintendo has published a spec sheet.
I'm curious to see what the "Custom processor made by NVIDIA" is, partially to see what the Switch 2 is capable of, but also to see what Nvidia might put in other devices. (Can I hope for a Shield refresh?)
I bet counting on Nvidia is going to fuck them. Such a weird choice when EVERYONE else has switched to AMD.
A lot of valid reasons for the price to be high but that's still a lot of money. $80 for a game hurts. It went from a must buy early this year when I heard about it to ehh... Maybe I'll see what happens first.
It’s not gonna get cheaper and they probably incorporated tariffs.
Looks like we’re seeing the impact of inflation + tariffs.
The OG Switch was $300 in 2017. This console would be about $350 if you adjusted for inflation.
The people on the chat game trailer looks like they all work on human resources
Will this have stick drift? Seems like they skipped hall effect sticks
Duck Dintendo I'm not ever allowing Dintendo games purchased from my pocket anymore. Do whatever the heck they do.
The fact that Nintendo is trying to bring back literal license dongles with their Game-Key Card, when dongle DRM died in the '80s for games for a reason, eg. what if you lose your dongle? You can't play your game that uses it anymore, don't help matters.
Discs on PS4/XB1 and PS5/Series X are figurative license dongles, which is probably worse as a 50GB or 100GB disc respectively will have been wasted on DRM for a game you still have to download anyways, but Nintendo is using literal license dongles.