The answer is literally right above your post, 65 (or $80 in the U.S.). Huge ripoff, typical for Nintendo.
All your posts get "a ton if downvotes" though, haven't you noticed?
All eShop prices are bad, sale or no sale. Yet Sony and Microsoft frequently run great sales with deep discounts. Did you ever wonder why? The reason is because Nintendo is very stingy with their own discounts, and greedy with the fees they charge other companies. No one should buy any digital games from the eShop, they just encourage Nintendo to keep ripping people off.
Those are terrible "deals", but it's not surprising. Nintendo is very stingy when it comes to giving discounts on anything.
Madmoose, yes you do have to draw shapes to create weapons. Whether you do that with the touchscreen on the gamepad or the joysticks, it's still a bad gimmick that ruined the game. Another awful idea like the terrible Star Fox Zero gimmick. These poorly thought out gimmicks ruin gameplay rather than improving it, and the failure of both games is proof that the gaming community agreed.
Why even bother putting the game on Switch? It's too big to even fit in the tiny 32gb storage (since the OS takes up a chunk of that). Plus of course it will have to be massively scaled back/watered down to even run on the system.
W101 was a commercial failure, you won't see any more of those. The gimmick that forced people to draw shapes on the screen ruined it.
Please, not that old tired argument about advertising. No amount of advertising would have made the Wii U a better console, and the poor specs are the most important reason for its failure. Hardware was very weak and poorly designed, nothing was going to change that.
I think they understood it well enough, they just didn't want the product.
Wii U was one of the worst designed consoles in recent memory. Very poor hardware specs, gimped by the gamepad gimmick that really didn't improve gameplay, but in many cases made games much worse (like the awful Star Fox Zero). Nintendo clearly bet everything on the gamepad to entice gamers, but it was ultimately nothing more than a bad gimmick.
Unfortunately when it comes to gaming hardware design, Nintendo really doesn't have the resources and expertise to delive...
Whelp, Switch had a decent start, but it's already on the decline. I guess people realized that it was never going to be able to match the consoles that came out years before it, and the portability aspect wasn't enough to make up for that.
It's still a fantastic game, you just need to get over the obsession with trophies.
Cardboard junk.
"The games themselves lack lasting appeal" because Labo is just a gimmick, not a genuinely innovative product. Why anyone would pay the exorbitant prices for cheap bundles of cardboard is a mystery to most people. These are the kind of gimmicks that you try once, then stick in the closet to collect dust.
Switch is clearly the Wii U 2, almost everything from the Wii U is being ported over (and not much else other than indies).
How could Nintendo have bungled the design of the Switch so badly to not allow saves to local storage? This company really doesn't understand how to design gaming hardware, very sad.
So glad I didn't fall for the hype and buy a Switch, it would have been a huge waste of money. The system is unable to deliver current generation games, so in the end it's just an underpowered handheld for Nintendo and indie games. Easy pass.
Agreed. I already own it on PS4 and it's a great little arcade platformer. I'm sure it plays much better on the big screen with a Dualshock 4 than on the tiny Switch screen with tiny joycons.
Labo is yet another bad gimmick from Nintendo, in a long line of them over the years (Wii, Wii U, and the many games crippled by terrible motion controls). It's hard to believe that anyone would pay money for such cheap, throwaway junk.
I saw an SNES at a Target yesterday, they've been very easy to find. Still available at many stores.