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The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? (www.cgmagonline.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by SeanMallonOfficial@lemmy.zip to c/games@lemmy.world
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To be honest, this gamer is totally gob smacked on the attitude that people have when it comes to new console releases.

Sure it was time for a change. But is it worth the hassle and aggravation?

I'm not the one to jump on the NCHW (New Console Hype Wagon), just for the sake of popularity. I pay attention to the ebb and flow of popularity.

I learned this lesson all to well when the SEGA Saturn was released in 1994. Like everyone else in the console video game space at the time, I jumped on the hype and pre-relase popularity.

But in the end, after it was all said and done, it was a total flop. The lesson that I learned is plain and simple.

Slow down and relax. Let others make the mistake. Let them make the mistake you've made.

But this time around, the hype was justified. The Switch 2 is one of those consoles that lives up to the hype. Where the games go from here is up to NINTENDO and the publishers. But take it easy, Let the hype train enter the station and then buy the system. I'm telling you, it's worth the wait.

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[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I think the average PC gamer on Lemmy isn't going to see the value in the Switch 2. I've personally seen that for people that want things to just work the switch is a great console.

The Switch 2 is getting a little greedy with paid upgrades to switch 2 performance for switch 1 games, and that goes against the "just works" ethos.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm a Nintendo fan (of their games, not their business practices), have owned all of their consoles (even a Virtual Boy) and I don't plan to go anywhere near a Switch 2 unless Nintendo gets humbled again. They're at "Sony at PS3 launch" and "Microsoft at Xbox One launch" levels of arrogance currently (not to mention "Nintendo at 3DS launch"). The PS3 eventually came down to a reasonable price, but the 360 was my first and last Microsoft console.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm an Australian so I'm not 100% sure on what you're paying for other consoles at the moment, but the switch 2 hardware is cheaper than the base disc PS5 slim and Xbox series X over here. Don't even get me started on PC hardware.

Xbox raising their prices to $80 isn't a good sign. Sony increased the price of the PS5 over here recently even though it won't be subject to any tariffs, to subsidise their losses in the US.

All that is to say that Nintendo aren't being so anti-competitive relative to the industry that I think they're going to be forced to drop prices

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I can only speak for the US market, but there's no precedent for Nintendo having a lower-powered console priced similarly to the competition. They're asking people to pay close to the same price for a console that's significantly weaker. Maybe portability is so popular that people will go for it. We'll see how it does after the diehards all get theirs and the normies decide whether or not to buy.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Switch 2 at 450 is still cheaper than Sony and Xbox's launch pricing when adjusted for inflation. Kind of in line with previous generations over the last 30 years.

$80 games are more expensive than they have a right to be for sure, but the hardware I think is reasonably priced.

Bear in mind Switch 2 being a portable console puts it in a different category of device to PS5 and Xbox series consoles.

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My problem is doni have time for new games, we have a switch for my daughter and we barely play it. I like Nintendo games but I have a hard enough time completing any game. I think there's one or two games in my entire Xbox collection I've actually completed.

My problem is only having maybe an hour or two late evening I'll play something for a week, try something else because I get tired of playing the same thing then forget what I was doing in the other game and want to start over.

If I was going to get a handheld I think I'd much prefer the new Asus rog that Xbox worked on

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

The new Asus Xbox would be really cool if they got quick resume working. That would then be a really decent Game pass + windows handheld machine. I can't see myself moving away from my steam deck OLED for a while, quickly resume is the killer feature.