^ Ironically, having a life is one of the main reasons to go console over PC. No tinkering, no googling or searching protondb to figure out if a game will work on your PC. Just turn it on and press play.
PC upgrade costs are astronomical as well. Furthermore, AAA games on PC will be priced comparably to AAA games on console. If you want cheap quality games, there are hundreds of good indies out there which will run just fine on a console or low powered PC.
@nommers, Mario Kart 8 sold 8 million. Thats more than half of the Wii U userbase.
Strange, I thought the record went to Street Fighter 2.
Rude delivery aside, he has a point. If people are conditioned to wait for a sale (or wait for gamepass 😉) then that's exactly what they'll do. Because people know Nintendo games rarely go on sale, they'll buy it at full price.
They didn't say 15 million in it's first year. They said 15 million in 2025 which means 15 million in 6 months.
^ Why do you think the Switch 2 is profitable at $350 when sold overseas?
There's wasn't a set price for games until the PS2 gen. I remember new N64 games ranging in price from $40 to $120.
Nintendo pays its employees well and have an excellent work culture in terms of allowing their employees to have a good work life balance. How many other companies do that? I bet a good chunk of their increased revenue will go towards increasing developer salaries. Sure it sucks for consumers but the alternative is Ubisoft and Activision struggling with cash and looking for buyers.
I'm also getting a Switch 2 but I'm not spending 80$ on any games. I will wait as long as it takes or go digital if I have to.
Talk is cheap we'll see what people's wallets say. I suspect the US market will be dead due to its self inflicted recession.
Nintendo's only successful consoles were the Wii and the SNES (and maybe NES). Nintendo's handheld department has always been the big winners.
Even though the Switch 2 is backwards compatible, it won't have the space to hold all my switch 1 games so I'm probably going to use the Switch 2 exclusively for Switch 2 edition games (and a handful of favorites like smash bros)
I never did finish Botw so that jumps right to the top of my list.
The c button will be the new gimmick. It's exact function we'll find out soon.
I've been playing KCD 2 for about a month (which for me is about 20-30 hours) and still haven't made it to the wedding. But my boy Henry is a master alchemist. I'm really not even a completionist but all of the side activities are super fun.
It's been the same since the Switch was first launched back in 2017. This new thing seems to basically allow you to designate a new primary console among everyone in your family account. So by lending the game to someone in your family account, they can play it even while offline.
The upvotes here are crazy considering this is false. I set my son's switch to my primary and we are able to play all of my games on both of our switches at the same time. It literally works exactly the same as xbox / Playstation.
And boy are there a lot of them. I really like the ones that button mash through instructions and then go: "so what am I supposed to be doing?"
What about those games that don't support cloud saves? Allegedly the switch 2 versions of Zelda may not even support cloud save. And don't get me started on Animal Crossing.