I delayed my preorder when I saw the bullshit price gouging for game prices.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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don't worry good America people I'd play the games in your stead while you're busy supporting your local brands
You can still get a Steam Deck and save a ton of games.
Nintendo going to suck trump dick so they can get the pricepoint they want.
No they won't. They'll just ship extra units to Canada and Mexico to account for fans going across the border to buy them.
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The Switch 2 looks like absolute garbage so they can keep it.
My next console purchase with be a Steam Deck.
i have a steam deck and it's awesome but it's silly to think that it looks like garbage. the switch 2 looks pretty awesome.
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ELI5 smuggling a Switch2 over the Mexico or Canadian border. Not that I would recommend that or anything. For science. And fanfic.
Que?
Me llama Han Solo y quiero jugar videojuegos de Switch2. Además, no me gusta pagar Trumpiffs. Theoretically.
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Yeah, bullshit. They're just using tariffs to further increase the price.
100 bucks cheaper in Japan than any other region? 90 dollar games that never go on sale?
Get bent, Nintendo, I'll stick to the steam deck and wait for emulation.
Someone doesn't understand the full story. The Yen is weak. Super weak when compared to the US dollar. Hence the price difference for their country.
Additionally, those special consoles will be soft region locked. Only JP accounts can be added to them and will display Japanese only if the game supports that language.
Games never go on sale, what are you on about? We see Nintendo games go on sale frequently. Sorry they're not the $5 dumpster trash that EA/Ubisoft shits out every year with their latest madden or CoD/Just Dance games riddled with bugs.
The Nordic prices are ridiculous though. It's the equivalent of adding ~200 euro to the regular European price. I bet lots of people here are going to import from other EU countries
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Looks like it has some promising titles but I don't think price wise it can compete with the ryzen based handheld pcs like the steam deck etc. It doesn't make much sense so far as I can tell but I'm still curious what titles it gets and how the battery life compares
No OLED screen at that price point was the deal-breaker for me.
Yeah I get that it's obvious they are going to introduce an oled later. Very predictable imo and yeah if I ever buy one it's going to be oled as well.
But yeah I'm at least waiting to see if the battery life is decent and what other titles it gets beforehand, right now I feel it has potential But at this moment in time I'd rather have a pc based handheld.
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~~$442~~ Wait, new us price (since its built in china, for a Japanese company) is $1000