Chrkeller said:
Soundwave said:
The system is $500 ... so? Especially the model that virtually everyone is paying for 99% of people are spending $500 on Switch 2. I was right on that, I was right that it wasn't going to be cheap because there is some serious hardware under the hood, a budget device would be far less ambitious in the specs.
1536 CUDA Ampere blows the shit out of a PS4. That also was obvious if you weren't blinded by bias. There's no surprise to me that it's getting PS5-only games with no fuss even early in the product cycle.
I said it then too specs of that caliber would be a game changer especially for big Japanese developers, they would have to seriously look at putting all their big ticket console IP on the Switch like the next Final Fantasy and Resident Evil and yes I even said Monster Hunter Wilds. And what happened? Bang, bang, and bang, even when people said "no way is Square-Enix gonna hold back the Final Fantasy mainline games for Nintendo!". Final Fantasy VII Remake Part III already confirmed for Switch 2 ... boom just like that. Resident Evil 9 ... confirmed for Switch 2. Now we find out even MH Wilds is apparently coming.
The Christmas day leaker guy who put who slightly altered images of the system (to protect his ass) also deserves some damn props in hindsight. Virtually everything that guy/gal said turned out to be correct.
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Umm... it is $450... WTF?
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The Mario Kart bundle which is like 95% of the Switch 2 inventory is $499.99 MSRP. Maybe you can find a discount here and there, but that's not the MSRP. The $450 model Nintendo makes in extremely low quantities because that's not the profit margin they want.
The Christmas Day 2024 leaker got that correct too, he/she should be credited for that when a lot of people were giving him grief and saying Mario Kart couldn't be a launch title/pack-in (I said Mario Kart would be the ideal pick for a launch title that Nintendo would want also).
A lot of the stupid things said essentially seem to boil down to "Nintendo hasn't done that in the past or at least in the recent past as I understand it so that can't possibly happen" ... which is a dumb way of looking at things.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 13 January 2026
