mZuzek said:
So Nintendo is wrong to charge "full price" for their consoles and controllers? Because they're Nintendo, I assume? Come on, you have to do better than this. I understand the "underpowered" argument but the Switch is a new product (cheaper than either PS4 or Xbox One at launch), and it's portable. Its controllers are also very high quality - personally I'd say the Switch Pro is the best controller I've ever tried, honestly -, so it makes no sense to complain about their price. Classic games being overpriced, sure I'll give you that. They should definitely be cheaper, especially some of the more throwaway titles. That said, it is possible with the Nintendo Online Service, those games will be cheaper as a result. It's also about the only good thing I'm expecting from it, really. Nintendo has already shown they are incapable of creating a decent online ecosystem, they were taking baby steps with the Wii U but amazingly the Switch managed to get worse at it. At least, as others have said, it'll be much cheaper than Live or PS+, so, yay I guess? |
Still more expensive than either of those consoles today. Not sure why launch price matters when the PS4 and X1 launched 4 years ago, and are more capable consoles. As for their controllers, the Switch Pro controller is nice, but it certainly isn't any nicer than the PS4 controller at almost half the price. The Pro controller is easily $20 more than it probably should cost, but in terms of Switch Accessories, it's one of the least overpriced compared to its value. The most overpriced Switch accessory is clearly the dock. They charge $100 for that when it costs them no more than $20 to put in retailers hands.
As for Nintendo's online ecosystem, so far it's extremely extremely lacking. Like, not even worth $20 lacking. Now, I've only been using it to play Splatoon 2, but I'm not excited to spend $20 on something that I don't even like to use when it's free.
