Just don't give in, be strong.

Unfortunately most gamers tend to be weak willed and usually give into FOMO even though they cry and complain. A lot say they won't buy it but they always give in, too many weak will people out there. They will pay the high prices validating these companies practices which screws over everyone else.

I’m not denying anybody’s right to be upset that the price of the Switch 2 and its games are too expensive. However, do not mistake complaining online with other online bros as a movement because it isn’t. The reality is the Switch 2 is going to sell out on day one, and it’s going to be a big hit.

The price of a small chicken doner at my local Turkish take away has gone up £3. THREE POUNDS. That’s not right is it? But the owner is under no obligation to sell it at the price I prefer, it’s his business he sets the price at what’s right for him and people who don’t want to pay or can’t pay don’t get to buy one. Likewise with Nintendo, it sets the price of the Switch 2 and if it’s too expensive for the majority of people it will not sell out. However, even if there are tens of thousands of people unhappy about the price and they try and campaign by downvoting its YouTube videos, and leaving immature comments like ‘I can’t pay reduce the price DROP THE PRICE’ and down voting sensible comments- if there are many more people that WILL pay the price then Switch 2 will sell out.

If you’re a 12 year old kid and you’re wondering if it’s too expensive for your parents to afford it because it’s too expensive I get that, but if you’re an adult 18 years older or over, you’re not owed the right to buy it. In Western countries eg the US, mainland Europe and the UK you can afford one of these and a bunch of games by working a minimum wage job for two weeks.

How does that boot taste?

These people don’t understand what inflation is forgive them.

People BUY gaming consoles every generation, it has nothing to do with getting free products.

Nintendo has been NOTORIOUS for the past several generations for using old tech and selling it at an extreme premium.
Wii was an over clocked GameCube which was selling for $49 EoL, and Wii launched at $249. (2005)
Wii U was a PS360 level GPU with more memory and a worse CPU 6/7 years later $299-$349. (2012)
Switch 1’s Tegra 1 is 2015 tech, that launched at $349 and still being sold now with an OLED for $349 (2025)
All prior Nintendo handhelds used tech much lower than what was available at the time.

Games for handhelds were $40 or less up until the 3DS, with Switch they jumped to $60 which….okay fine expected. The $40 / $60 game was the standard set since the PS2/GC/Xbox generation, into the PS360Wii generation, and into the PS4/XBO/Wiiu-Switch generation.

So their history with gimping and using less than ideal hardware to maximize funds has been well documented. But the reason it wasn’t as much of an issue is because the cost of the console/handhelds were still manageable by the masses and the games were good, nostalgic, and priced fairly.

None of that is the case with the Switch 2, and THAT’S the issue people have.

Personally, I would say the hardware itself isn’t the problem, outside of regions where it’s $550 / $600 that’s ridiculous. But $450 in the US isn’t bad, it’s just not great or mass consumer friendly price like the majority of their other platforms. It definitely could have been $399 and closer to that mass consumer pricing, especially with them having a $350 Japan exclusive version.

But games going from $60 to $80 and $90 is highway robbery and PURE GREED, and that’s the biggest issue.

Yeah well UK £75 converts to $95.

Variable pricing is a good idea if devs are honest about the value of their games but we all know this won't happen and everything will be priced like crazy

This is a great point historically games being on carts caused prices to vary so much because larger capacity carts or carts that requires special chips to run the game like NES mappers or the super FX or Sega's virtual racing cart increased the cost of production more than say ice climber on the nes that ran on a standard cart.

So production costs varied wildly until disc became the standard even PS1 made it possible for games to be produced in large capacity ultra cheap and fast so at that point we saw the industry real the benifits of disc games and standardised the pricing model because it did away with crazy variations on carts.

It also meant to core system couldn't be expanded upon but it was worth the trade off as systems were powerful enough by that point