Switch 2 price will ‘consider the affordability customers expect’ from Nintendo, says president
But inflation and the exchange rate will also affect the Switch 2 price, says Nintendo’s president…
Americans won’t be able to afford anything by the time it comes out lol
By the time it comes out??? I can't afford anything NOW!
Good, so you won't have to accommodate to any changes./s
watch the trade wars result in americans getting 100% 'made in japan' hardware instead of partially or wholly made in prc.
I'm strangely okay with this.
The telling thing is that Nintendo is not planning to reduce the price of the Switch. Hopefully they will drop the price when the Switch 2 comes out, or we may have different definitions of "affordable".
The Switch currently sells for $300 and the OLED. In order to keep selling, those systems need to be significantly cheaper than the backwards compatible Switch 2, which would mean that the Switch 2 has to be sold for at least $400 (if not $450).
My bets are placed on $399
The affordability of a Pokemon game being $120 after factoring in the cost of its two DLCs?
People keep buying them (and complaining how shit GameFreak is)
Give Pokemon Unbound a try! It's leagues better than anything GameFreak has put out in the last 10 years!
Unless it falls off the back of a truck…
I "expect" it to be unaffordable, but then I'll probably buy it anyway, then feel bad about spending money i don't have, then spend even more money I don't have on things like ice-cream and whiskey to make me feel better about spending money I don't have on unaffordable stuff.
I don’t understand the point of this product. Is it cheaper? Are there screen improvements?
All I see is a switch with the color removed from the joycons. Do the joycons fix the drift problem from the previous model? If so, are they backwards compatible with the original switch (do they snap on or is it a different size)?
You know how there was a ps2 and then a ps3? Or an Xbox and then an Xbox 360? Well this is a Switch 2.
More info will be available in April. https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-switch-2-to-be-released-in-2025/
i cannot imagine someone using lemmy and not being aware that hardware can improve over time
I’m going to assume that your anger at the article is mainly frustration and some reassurance would help so here I go.
Based on the teaser video released some time ago the joycons don’t look to be interchangeable between 1 & 2. And no mention thus far about the joycon drift issue, if they choose to not talk about it I will assume until someone dismantles one on video that they didn’t. The screen is larger than the previous model both from the teaser video and the leaked specs. And from that same leaked spec sheet the processor is from 2022-2023 in its age so while not the newest it is more powerful and can handle 1080p video based solely on the chip itself, not Nintendo.
I appreciate the informative and constructive answer.
It uses the Nvidia Tegra 239 chip, which is based off the Ampere generation. While potentially it could have some ray tracing features, the power limits of a small chip like this are likely to prevent it from being used.
More interestingly, it should have all the hardware and juice to be able to run DLSS. This means it can upscale from 720p to 4k using Nvidia’s proprietary tech (the best in the business) to have excellent image quality at fast frame rates.
Other than the Nvidia specific tech, it’s just generally a faster processor with more memory. While it won’t be as powerful as a PS5, graphics should look nicer and world size and detail should increase with fewer compromises.
Your phone upgrades every year and barely looks different...
