That's a lot of dough. I won't be picking this up at those prices. Shit is getting way too expensive.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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Stealing is cheaper than buying things!?
I know it's expensive though, and I emulated Pokemon Sword to play a co-op randomized Nuzzlock with friends. So no doubt there will be a Sw2 emulation scene. But I'm not sure a $250 laptop will even get you the same performance with emulation.
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Currently i don't see why i would invest so much besides owning it out of principal. The OG released with 2 exclusives or 3? That would be a whole other story but with Mario Kart alone?
Yeah, it's basically Mario Kart World and then Donkey Kong Bananza shortly thereafter.
As a reminder Switch 1 had the following first party titles in its launch window:
- BOTW
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- 1-2-Switch (meh)
- Snipperclips (meh)
- ARMS (meh)
- Splatoon 2
So knowing how those games went, and excluding the meh games. Switch 2 is really only missing 1 first party like Splatoon.
Also Metroid Prime 4 is in the middle space of being a crossover title.
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Another reason I can think of is that usually launch versions sometimes have vulnerabilities that are harder to patch (which let you jailbreak, if you're into that)
So...what's up with the Japanese language & multi language systems they get over there?
Is putting in multiple languages really that much more expensive? Or put another way, why do they get a 330$ version for those who only speak Japanese? The language restriction must be just so people don't export them... was there a scalping problem?
It's ostensibly to stop the huge scalping and reselling problem here. Also, then yen is kinda shit right now.
Foreigner in Japan groups are pretty pissed since it's not currently clear that, if you have a Japanese account but also a foreign one, whether you won't even be able to connect your other account (i.e. lose access to all your old games). Anything that relies on system language to determine game language also suddenly becomes Japanese-only since this version will only have Japanese. It's really shitty for people who want to do anything in their native language. My wife also sometimes tries to play on my US account to work on her English.
Damn. I predicted the console would be $499.
Doesn't matter. I'm not buying an LCD screen shit box in 2025.
Can't wait for Switch 2 OLED in 2030
That's what I will be waiting for I guess.
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Just looked up the prices at the Austrian/German Site - https://store.nintendo.de/de. They are asking 510,-€ with one game. Currently the PS5 with Astrobot is 499,-. Wtf!
I'm part of a family account. Guess i need to get one from another source.
I'm all in, baby.
I'm really excited for an official way to get TotK in 60fps. No, I don't want to emulate. I still sometimes turn that game on to walk around and stumble upon stuff. It's great. And with that app, I may actually try to get all the Korok seeds.
I never actually picked it up. So I might have to when I get a Switch2.
TotK is something else. It's so good.
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