Personally I think the hardware pricing is fine. The issue I have is

#1 Charging $70 for BOTW + $20 for the expansion that's $90 if you want to experience everything on the switch 2
#2 $10 for the instruction manual mini game
#3 $80 (digital) or $90 (physical) for Mario Kart World. This is their big AAA game and the starting price being this much plus the inevitable loads of DLC that will follow is going to make this game the standard pricing for Nintendo AAA games this generation.

Will the Switch 2 have cheaper games, of course, and a lot of 3rd party games will be really cheap a few months after release this will be awesome as it looks like most 3rd party games are going to come to the S2. Its just Nintendo really showing their insane Greed that is a huge turn off.

Where did you get 90 for Mario Kart as the game is 80 for physical and 70 for digital?

Its 80 for both digital and physical in the US.

Probably from Europe.

True, doesn't make it any less awful for those who don't own the game.

I own BotW, and I still care. Just because something doesn't directly harm you doesn't mean you can't still recognize and criticize awful practices by companies. And again, just because something only applies to a small group of people doesn't make it any better.

He/She used $.

This just shows nintendo's terrible communication lol.

In EU/UK they explicitly specified the price for both physical and digital but for some reason in the US they didn't. So now in here we have some saying it's $90 for physical, $80 for digital. Some saying it's $80 for physical, $70 for digital and then $80 for both.

Why Nintendo couldn't actually communicate and explicitly tell everyone it's $80 for both when there were articles on the internet going out with all sorts of incorrect price speculation I don't know.

I do wonder why USA is the one region not having digital+physical priced differently.

This is simply not true:

The NES was met with widespread scepticism and Nintendo had to camouflage its identity as a gaming console by bundling R.O.B. with it and calling it an "Entertainment System". 

The PS1 didn't sell that well for its first year or two and Sony really had to work for its success.

The Gameboy was ridiculed for being black and white and not being powerful enough when it released.

The DS was ridiculed to no end and the whole internet was shocked when it outsold the PSP.

The Wii was so hated by the whole "gaming industry", that most people and analysts predicted it to be Nintendo's last console.

The Switch got an incredible amount of hate when it was unveiled, for the same reasons the Switch 2 is getting hate now.

It's like with every new generation people completely forget what happened 5, or 10, or 20 years ago.

This is a good list! What I would cautiously add (as I haven't fully thought this through) is that at least at first glance the Switch 2 seems to be disrupting Sony's and Microsoft's business.

If you look at it from a conventional angle, the Switch 2 is still lacking in areas like graphics power and is not considered to be a "hardcore" console. However, mobile chip technology has made huge jumps over the past decade, to the point where many people have to look twice to see a difference between a Switch 2 game and a PS5 game and most games can run adequately on Switch 2.

At this point, Sony and Microsoft can only move upmarket to keep their margins - which Sony did, with the extremely expensive PS5 Pro. Microsoft on the other hand saw the writing on the wall and basically went third party. And Sony will have to do the same thing if they want to stay in the very echelon of the upmarket with the PS6, as that console will have to be very expensive for people to see a difference compared to PS5 and software will be even more expensive to develop in the future than it already is.

I lived through all these times and I do not remember any of those events as you just described. You seemed to have an extremely biased and selected remembrance, which is a sign of extreme one-sidedness, so to speak. Shortly,

PS1 was always poised to be a big player due to the confidence on Sony. Beating an already-beatup Sega was a given but the success against Nintendo was somewhat surprising.

Gameboy was criticized but the opinion was divided, went both ways. Remember the virtual boy!

DS was criticized on low end hardware but praised in many other aspects. The industry didn't expect such a success but noone expected failure either. Noone was shocked the success against the PSP either, it was expected, but the huge margin wasn't expected.

Pretty much the same with Wii. People expected it to sell way more than Gamecube but not to outsell ps3.

The idea about Switch was divided. Some feared and expected the WiiU type failure, some expected Wii type success. The second camp was right, though even they were surprised.

So you are painting a completely pitch black picture from a black and white image.