When are you planning to get a Switch 2?

[Slownenberg]

While the system looks incredible, and I'm far more excited about Mario Kart World than I've ever been about a Mario Kart game before (and I always enjoy Mario Kart!), I've still got a huge backlog of Switch games and with the crazy pricing for both the system and games there just isn't much reason to buy it based on the games announced so far.

If Mario comes out for the holidays I might decide to get the MK Bundle and Mario, Elden Ring, and MP4 (if I haven't already got that for Switch) and then I'd be good for a long time. If Mario, whenever it finally comes out, doesn't force me to get one then I imagine it'll be at least a couple years before I finally take the very expensive plunge, since I have plenty to play for a bunch of years still on my Switch.

The pricing killed it for me, pricing is just too crazy. If it was just the hardware that was $50 more than expected ($400 already being a steep price for a system), I could be like "okay it's because the system is more powerful than I thought it'd be", but that combined with $80 games just says Nintendo has lost touch with what makes them popular. I mean at $80 I expect their games to be absolutely incredible, no more oh this game could have been better if they had done x or y or done more with it or missing content at launch or lack of features or not challenging enough or lazy with the graphics, no, at that price they better be pulling out all the stops with every single game. If you're gonna charge like this is the best game ever, it better damn well blow away every similar game.

Switch is the most expensive system I've ever bought at $300, and it is hard to imagine shelling out $500 for a system and a single game. Amazing system, but I have little interest in paying $450 for a system or $70-$80 for games. I'll get it eventually, but hard to say when if the next Mario doesn't happen to make me feel like I just have to play it immediately. With that game pricing I'd probably only be buying at most one Nintendo game average per year anyway - 3D Mario, 3D Zelda, 3D Metroid, Mario Kart, maybe Smash, if they put out a superb open world Pokemon - but any other Nintendo series would have to be far and away the best the series has ever been to make me even think about buying it at such prices (assuming $70/$80 is the normal pricing for first party games). I'd probably pick up 1 or 2 big third party games a year as well and some indies throughout the system's life, so next gen I'd expect my game count to total well less than half the ~60 Switch titles I've bought, so if I don't jump into the gen for a couple years thats fine.