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

[Bofferbrauer2]

The hardware price doesn't bother me.

One look at the cheapest Steam Deck with it's cheapest configuration, which costs $399, shows that the Switch 2 is much more powerful and better equipped for just $50 more.

• The Switch 2 comes with a 1080p screen while the Steam Deck only has an 800p screen. It's also larger than the one on the Deck
• The cheapest Steam Deck just comes with 64GB of eMMC memory for storage, while the Switch 2 has 256GB of presumably faster storage.
• the Switch 2 is more powerful and has DLSS as an option; Steam Deck can do FSR but only up to FSR 3.1, which is visually inferior to DLSS 3.x or even 4.0. This is especially helpful when any amount of Raytracing is supposed to happen, as RDNA2 is very weak in that domain.
• It comes with additional hardware for NFC (Amiibo), the detachable Joycons that can also double as a computer mouse, etc...

So yeah, when you compare both then the price of $450 really makes sense.

The price of Nintendo games are however more disturbing, as those rarely even drop in price, and when they do, it's about 30% maximum. That's more disturbing for me, but price increases in the videogame industry had to come at some point due to the inflation. And since cartridges are more expensive to produce than optical discs, it's understandable that physical editions are more expensive.

But what is more disturbing to me when it comes to the games is that the Switch 2 editions of the games don't come with all the DLC included afaik. Nintendo should really have those included for the Switch 2 editions to make them the best versions of the games, period. Hopefully the upgrade allows you to also choose the DLC to get all upgrades at once.