Five reasons why I am not bothered by Nintendo's Switch 2 hardware and software pricing

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Pemalite said:

RolStoppable said:

During the past eight years, Nintendo's expansions have come at prices between $20-30, so when the Switch 1 versions still cost $60, it's not hard to see in these two cases why the versions for the next gen console cost $80 and why it would justified.

A "deluxe" or "complete or "definitive" version should be the same or cheaper than the original launch price.

...Even ignoring that, games like Zelda: Breath of the Wild is re-releasing at a higher price than the WiiU release 8 years ago.
It doesn't even include any extra content. Absolute none.

The only difference between the versions is some changes in a text file to alter some parameters to increase resolution, apply anisotropic filtering and improve framerates. - Literally no new content. For $70 when the original release was $60 8 years ago.
And you still need to pay an extra $20 for the DLC anyway.

How is that justified?

Yes, you are using the argument of inflation, but even accounting for inflation, shouldn't it be cheaper and not the same (inflation adjusted) price?

Got no dramas with the hardware price, yes it costs as much as a Playstation 5, who cares. - Would have liked the Ram boosted to 16GB and have an OLED screen, but beggars can't be choosers, it's not like you plonk this kind of cash every year, the hardware is fixed for the entire generation.

Welcome Tour should be a free pack-in game.

The games we are talking about are labeled as Switch 2 Editions with no claims to Deluxe, Complete or Definitive. If you expect Super Mario Party Jamboree with additional new content to be cheaper or the same price on new hardware only half a year after its release on Switch 1, then you have very wild expectations. Likewise, the add-on content for Kirby and the Forgotten Land is brandnew.

Then you proceed to be verifiably wrong about Breath of the Wild and you aren't the first one in this thread. Both BotW and TotK are tied in with the Nintendo Switch app on smart devices with two known features so far: Guidance for things like korok seeds and audio logs spoken by Zelda that weren't in the original releases. It's one thing to be critical of prices, but it's a whole nother thing to not even make the effort to do the most basic research on the subject at hand. I'll reiterate that it's two known features so far.

The games that only have framerate and resolution bumps on Switch 2 have free updates, so there's a clear distinction between little to no effort and notable effort being put in when it comes to pricing.

Which leaves you with Welcome Tour, a tech demo that everyone was dying to play before it was announced that it will cost something. That's the straw that is breaking the camel's back. It's this generation's 1-2-Switch.