RolStoppable said:
The Xbox One was one of the worst conceived consoles from a major manufacturers. It was terrible with its original sales pitch and it remained a bad console throughout its life, much like the Wii U. It was reasonable to hate these consoles and what they were trying to do. But Switch 2 is a whole different story. It really is the console that people had asked for all along, but for some reason the internet decided to be shocked that prices for video games would go up after years of strong inflation. The hate that got thrown at Switch 2 was 99% unreasonable and the remaining warranted criticism is so minor that it's hard to care about it. Now that the system is out people begin to realize that even Nintendo undersold how good the console is. Mario Kart World exemplifies how stupid people are behaving. "It's $80!", they say. Turns out that Nintendo isn't artificially limiting the availability of the Switch 2 bundle, so 90% of Switch 2 owners who wanted the game paid only $50 which is an absolute steal for the sequel to one of the best-selling games ever. The other 10% consist mostly of collectors who wanted to have a physical copy. Nintendo stayed on course because they were convinced that they've done things right, and they are correct about that. It's the internet that will have to change course. |
And for the physical collectors, we understand that it costs $16 to make a Switch 2 cart. We understand that if Nintendo could make 32GB and 16GB Switch 2 carts they would, because that would massively benefit their games. But they can't, so the only thing available right now is 64GB carts, which is fueling the game-key-card push. This is likely a manufacturing issue, where factories refuse to make anything smaller, or smaller sizes aren't economically feasible. With the N64 people called Nintendo greedy for having $60 carts when PS1 games cost only $50, despite N64 carts costing $10 to make and PS1 discs costing pennies to make.
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