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RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#951: Apr 8th 2025 at 5:10:59 PM

It's very back-and-forth about whether or not the Switch 2 Editions are entirely on cart or not. One customer support agent says yes, another says no. It's been a bit of a mess.

I think we have more instances of yes than no at this point though, and that box art seems pretty cut-and-dry, so I think you're right that they're probably all on the cart.

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#952: Apr 8th 2025 at 5:16:19 PM

[up][up][up][up]Well, nominally

In reality I would never have been allowed to get it digitally, but even with the option available later I liked the ego boost it gave me

I think it was just because I've always been a big collector. TCG and LEGO minifigs squeezed a lot of money out of us that way.

Also helps that I managed to get one of the last copies of Yo-kai Watch 3 at a reasonable price which is now worth like $300 minimum

Edited by AwkbutTVT on Apr 8th 2025 at 1:21:54 PM

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BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#953: Apr 8th 2025 at 6:15:53 PM

Why wouldn't you have been allowed to get it digitally?

I understand the thing about being a collector. I personally am not, though I do like the fact that I can scroll through my Switch's list of games and see all 171 of them, a nice reminder of how many I have.

In the past, I sold my old game consoles to get some money later on. Like, I got rid of my NES, and I forget if it's before or after I got my Nintendo 64. It wasn't so I could afford a Super NES, as I got that for Christmas.

Later, I started to miss the NES. I got nostalgic in high school, and I started to want to play the NES. Then I later got to play those games again on my computer... and my older brother said, "Aren't you glad we sold the NES now?" And I agreed. To me, it was about the games themselves, not seeing 50 cartridges. I had no reason to care if they were physical or digital yet.

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#954: Apr 8th 2025 at 6:43:32 PM

I usually default towards getting larger games on physical (stuff like BOTW) and get smaller games digitally.

I do too, though my conception on which games are big and which are small is fuzzy; I don’t do a lot of research on it. I also don’t have time for very many games, and tend not to buy them myself, but get them around Christmastime. (Which is probably when I’ll get a Switch 2, but it’ll be a big ask that my family and in-laws might go in on together.) So my other criteria for digital vs. physical is “which would be cheaper or easier for my family to find for me?” I think all of my digital Switch games are from codes bought from retail or Amazon.

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#955: Apr 8th 2025 at 6:58:40 PM

Why wouldn't you have been allowed to get it digitally?

I understand the thing about being a collector. I personally am not, though I do like the fact that I can scroll through my Switch's list of games and see all 171 of them, a nice reminder of how many I have.

In the past, I sold my old game consoles to get some money later on. Like, I got rid of my NES, and I forget if it's before or after I got my Nintendo 64. It wasn't so I could afford a Super NES, as I got that for Christmas.

Later, I started to miss the NES. I got nostalgic in high school, and I started to want to play the NES. Then I later got to play those games again on my computer... and my older brother said, "Aren't you glad we sold the NES now?" And I agreed. To me, it was about the games themselves, not seeing 50 cartridges. I had no reason to care if they were physical or digital yet.

Not all of us were willing to get an emulator on a PC back then, and PC game controllers weren't as mainstream as they are now. And back then digital transactions could only be done with a credit card, not a debit card. To this day I still haven't received the former. Selling off our SNES was one of my biggest regrets; I had to either homebrew a console or buy a rerelease to buy the games I had lost. I'm not even a collector; I just don't want to risk losing access to games that I might consider playing again.

Edited by RainingMetal on Apr 8th 2025 at 9:59:54 AM

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#956: Apr 8th 2025 at 9:27:30 PM

I am not picky about digital or physical.

With that said I do realize the advantage of being able to switch games without needing to physically change the inserted game.

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#957: Apr 9th 2025 at 3:12:02 AM

[up][up][up][up]Parental paranoia

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#958: Apr 9th 2025 at 4:46:47 AM

[up][up] I mostly collect physical games cause it's the most convenient for me and the fact I don't have much way in terms of the eShop funds. Plus I got something to flex.

Though the recent announcement of the eShop opening in the Philippines might change that since I'm might finally be able to play all the indie games I want.

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#959: Apr 9th 2025 at 5:44:55 AM

I generally prefer physical games, especially for big games that take up a lot of console space. The main exception are games that you'll (after getting past the initial "play for hours every day" starting period) want to play a bit every day alongside other games, which is why I got Animal Crossing New Leaf and Tomodachi Life digitally on my 3DS. However, I have started buying more and more smaller games digitally especially if there's a good sale. Especially on PS4/PS5 (I want those trophies lmao), not so much on Switch.

But physical is definitely preferable for the security of properly "owning" the game, and also having something to put on my shelf.

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#960: Apr 9th 2025 at 7:19:33 AM

[up][up]Make no mistake, I have two game cases filled with games! (one was the 24 one and another 12)

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#961: Apr 9th 2025 at 8:34:08 AM

[up] I only used game cases for the 3DS. Switch Game Cards are all over the place (quite literally).

Edited by leafsaber47 on Apr 9th 2025 at 11:34:17 AM

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#962: Apr 9th 2025 at 9:42:22 AM

I do wonder how much notice Nintendo is gonna give before they do start pre-orders in the US.

BonsaiForest Since: Jan, 2001
#963: Apr 9th 2025 at 10:13:05 AM

Why Trump’s tariffs probably won’t cause an immediate Switch 2 price bump

DFC Intelligence CEO David Cole, for instance, said in a recent analyst note that the company is currently modeling "a 20 percent price increase over the next two years" across all video game hardware thanks to "broader macroeconomic challenges." In the case of the Switch 2, though, Cole clarified that "we believe much of the 20 percent increase was already baked into the $450 price," which Nintendo is "not likely" to raise at this point.

But Nintendo may have also been able to delay the financial pain of Trump's tariffs by getting a significant amount of hardware into the US ahead of implementation. MST Financial analyst David Gibson recently pointed out to the Financial Times that Nintendo shipped an estimated 383,000 Switch 2 units from Vietnam to the US in January alone, and likely "ramped-up [shipments] significantly in February and March."

Looks like a mixture of good and bad news on the console pricing at least.

Edited by BonsaiForest on Apr 9th 2025 at 1:31:10 PM

ShiningStardust Since: Jun, 2017
#964: Apr 9th 2025 at 10:27:34 AM

Yeah, some people already guessed that Nintendo probably already baked the tariff into the price, it's just that they didn't expect the tariff to be this high, and they probably were expecting a smaller number, like 25% tariff at best. Not nearly 50% on Vietnam.

Edited by ShiningStardust on Apr 10th 2025 at 12:29:15 AM

ComicX6 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#965: Apr 9th 2025 at 10:49:30 AM

Pricing-related FOMO just got me to use a portion of my tax return to accelerate my plans to get a new laptop to replace my aging one and fuck it, now I might just jump on the Switch 2 pre-order train if the current $450 holds for the rest of the year. I've got enough credit card rewards and loose change squirreled away to knock off at least 80% of that.

Edited by ComicX6 on Apr 9th 2025 at 1:49:55 PM

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#966: Apr 9th 2025 at 10:50:06 AM

Well, looks like tariffs are going back down to 10%. Except on China, which is getting 125%.

So maybe the price won't hit the extreme.

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#967: Apr 9th 2025 at 12:59:33 PM

If the price stays at $450 pre-orders in the US are going to be a nightmare.

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#968: Apr 9th 2025 at 3:52:10 PM

Hmm… may have to just bite the bullet and pre-order at this rate.

Does Amazon allow pre-orders on installment plans? Like if I break it up to $100 a month for five months?

Just waiting on pre-orders to start up again.

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Apr 9th 2025 at 8:35:02 AM

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#969: Apr 9th 2025 at 6:27:19 PM

Apparently the lack of Indonesia release is due to the government requiring investments or something? That's what I heard.

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#970: Apr 9th 2025 at 7:32:56 PM
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#971: Apr 9th 2025 at 7:47:55 PM

Pirates aren't moral crusaders. They like to paint themselves like they are, but they were banging that "its morally okay to pirate" drum long before Switch 2 price hikes.

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#972: Apr 9th 2025 at 7:57:27 PM

I'm just sick of hearing about "80 bucks for a game?!" at this point, man. I'm admittedly a bit hesitant to drop $80 on MKW myself even though I think the game looks fantastic (will probably save up for the bundle instead), but I'm just sick of my YouTube feed being filled with miles upon miles of videos about it (especially since a lot of it is full of misinformation; I mainly rely on Kit and Krysta for updates as of now since they know Nintendo better than most other people).

I do have to wonder if people would still be banging on and on about this if it had been anybody other than Nintendo, though. Would people be this upset if it were either Sony or Microsoft who decided to make some games $80 depending on their scale, I wonder.

Edited by kablammin45 on Apr 9th 2025 at 8:03:35 AM

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#973: Apr 9th 2025 at 8:00:17 PM

[up] Finally, someone who shares my opinion!

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#974: Apr 9th 2025 at 8:06:54 PM

Incidentally, much like with Tears of the Kingdom (where they reintroduced their Nintendo Switch Game Voucher program) they did try to temper the price a bit by offering an alternative way to get it at a $50 value digitally, in this case being with a console bundle. Considering Mario Kart is traditionally a Killer App, the idea makes sense...

They lost control of the marketing for a multitude of reasons though, and I'd say the main ones are a combination of having it be the first game on the console (Tears was late into the Switch's lifespan and surrounded by other games at $50 and $60 price points) alongside the goofy handling of the Nintendo Switch 2 Editions (charging the original MSRP plus the cost of the Upgrade Pack itself, so naturally people see Forgotten Land at $80 and assume that corroborates it being the new standard price).

If, say, Bananza were the big launch title and World were further down the line, I wonder if that would have helped the price bump go more smoothly by making it clearer that $70 is the actual standard.

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#975: Apr 9th 2025 at 8:09:57 PM

Yeah, I'm in the same boat at this point. I'm certainly not happy about how expensive it is, but I feel like everything there is to say about it given what information we have has already been said, and it would be nice if people just talked about something else until Nintendo actually makes an announcement with content worth commenting on.

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