Nintendo Switch 2 Direct

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Vodacixi said:

Indeed. While there are reasons to be somewhat angry at Nintendo, I think first party support is not one of them. For a new system, there's plenty of games to look forward in the near future, and one of them is their heaviest hitter by a mile.

Heck, I don't even understand the third party support complaints. Not only is the Switch getting many modern multiplatform titles (and they are looking pretty good too, so future looks promising on that front) that the previous Switch missed, it also secured an insane exclusive like The Duskbloods.

I still think that the only thing people should be mad about is the price increase on games and specially the fact that they are trying to kill physical media for good. Everything else is looking amazing, easily topping any other console launch I can think of.

A $10 price increase for games was always coming. Absolutely no reason why anyone should expect Nintendo whose games have shown incredible longevity in the software charts should stick with $60 when companies with worse track records have opted for $70. Nintendo wasn't going to leave that money on the table.

Nintendo's attempt at killing physical media for good, as you call it, isn't as severe as it looks at first glance. All Nintendo can do is set an MSRP that isn't binding, so while they say there's an extra 10 for physical versions now, the reality is that retailers across many countries have commonly undercut the MSRP by around 10. We won't see this practice being used widely during the launch window when retailers expect to have their game allocations sell out anyway, but as the generation goes on, we'll revert back to what has been the norm for Switch games. Just that this time around physical will cost as much as digital instead of being cheaper.

If someone doesn't like any of the prices, be it the console itself, its games or its accessories, the choice is pretty easy: Just wait until prices come down or look out for discounts.