I disagree with it being an underwhelming showcase, but completely agree with the game prices being crippling. It’s one thing to ask Nintendo’s target casual gamer audience to spend $450 on a console, which is already a very big ask. But I agree they could’ve overcome that with their momentum and the software if the games were comparably priced to Switch. But a whopping $20 increase per first party game? No way their pivotal casual audience is going to swallow that. It’s just not going to happen. So then what are you left with? The core gamers, the exact audience that caused N64 and GCN to be disappointments and Wii U to outright fail. It’s not a good sign at all honestly.
Fortunately, I feel like this is going to be a repeat of the 3DS era, where after a lackluster launch period of sales, Nintendo will quickly realize the problem and drop the prices and everything will probably work out fine after that. Though it may be unlikely to ever be a true phenomenon like Switch after that, like 3DS never was compared to DS.
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