I find the ps5 in the last few years massively disappointing.  I can't figure out what ND, Santa and Guerilla are doing.  Also all ps5 games are inferior to PC.  Ps5 isn't cranking out 4k DLSS at 120 fps.  

The lack of first party games has disappointed me on the S2.  First year on the switch had botw and odyssey.  Both were amazing. 

Though I did forget about Prime 4, good game.  I think Nintendo just needs to communicate more.  I am sure they have more than Fire Emblem for this year.  

We're in agreement that they need to communicate more.

I feel like Switch 1 skews our perceptions because it's first year was so insane, and it needed to be as after the Wii U it was do or die for Nintendo in 2017. Switch 2 is less front loaded simply because it doesn't need to be, they have a strong brand now so they can afford to pace themselves a bit more and not empty the clip so soon.

Based purely off feeling, it feels like the Wii.

Benefitting from games that were being developed for a prior system/hardware spec, so there's a lack of wow factor but there is an abundance of software available in the first 12months.

I mean that might be true in the US, but the console was also €469 officially. They use neither currency where I live though, but my point of it being a 50 % increase still stands in most regions and inflation won't stop me from considering that a lot personally. The general consumer doesn't have 50 % more money now than back then that's for sure. But again, I did say slightly overpriced, it's mostly those Switch 2 Editions that get you.

(and sorry for the necro post ofc I haven't been online for a while)

The depreciation of currency isn't a US-exclusive thing though, inflation is a global phenomenon, the euro has lost 24% of it's value since 2017; the Switch 1 would be nearly 400 Euros today in adjusted currency, making Switch 2 about a 20% increase.

The European price is a bit steep in today's economy, I'd actually agree there, but the number itself is misleading as a euro now has substantially less value than a euro 9 years ago, and Nintendo can't control inflation or how much we get paid.

If they made the Switch 2 cost the same as Switch 1 unadjusted (300 dollars/euros) then it would be a considerably inferior piece of hardware to what we have today, and then everyone would just complain that it was a cheap piece of shit.

Yeah I mean a rather expected answer, but like I say a 50 % increase is still a lot regardless of the fact that Nintendo is obviously not responsible for the economic situation which has also gotten worse since the system launched. If it launched today I'd be suprised if it was less than $500 but that doesn't mean I'd consider it a fair price. The two aren't interlinked like that. And again you're putting a lot of effort into disproving a statement that it was slightly overpriced, which is a pretty mild take and a mostly subjective one.

Simply adding context. You're allowed to feel it's slightly overpriced, just explaining why the difference in numbers is somewhat misleading since a dollar/euro in 2017 vs today is very different. 

Ofc, I'm aware of that, though again I would argue using inflation numbers directly is also a bit misleading since the amount of money available to the average consumer is the more relevant metric. But we can quickly agree that the unfortunate economic sitation is the biggest issue at play here.

It would be great if our wages kept pace with inflation, and it's fucked up that they don't, but there's nothing Nintendo can really do about that, as the amount of money available to the consumer doesn't change the reality of component costs or currency devaluation. I feel like we more or less agree that the economic circumstances are ultimately the culprit.

For me is GBA. GameCube, Wii and 3DS.