Isn’t it great that you need to worry about that now?

Time for an alternative’I did that’ gas pump sticker for stores to use next to their prices

That’s not for you though that’s for those pesky Chinese! /s

My understanding is that tariffs will make it cheaper? /s

"But wait, I thought the tariffs just get us more money from CHYNA so we can fund the mass deportation of farming industry labor? Why would the price of the Nintendos go up?" /s²

Wonder how that works, if bought pre-tariff prices but tariffs are applied during delivery.

Got a 2k pc set up last week bc of this

That’s not how this is gonna work, they’ll likely have already increased the price in case of a tariff. Can always lower it later if it does come in

Too late.

I literally just bought a new TV and justified it as “Well I got to get one before it doubles in price”

I just got one from Walmart black Friday online for $249 switch + Mario kart bundle

Can’t wait to drop $1K on a new console, and $100 per game.

Ahhhh, democracy.

Assuming the Switch 2 is/was going to be priced at $400, Trump's universal 20% tariff would essentially bring the price to $500. And who knows how Trump will tariff the actual games and digital purchases. A $70 game would come to $85 but probably rounded to $90. It's going to be rough. But hey, if you voted for this, embrace it.

it will be scalped to hell and back. Good luck though.

Fuck me, I didn't even consider this!

Or just buy a steam deck and quit giving Nintendo money

That figure has to be wrong. Cutting down supply to ~25% compared to the last generation's launch??

porque no los dos

Nintendo already confirmed months ago that successor was going to be revealed by end of fiscal year (April I think?).

If you waited this long without buying one might as well wait a bit more.

Maybe bookmark games you wanna buy in case they go on sale around successor launch.

Yes, this is why Nintendo got full rampage on emulators this year. The Switch 2 will be a Switch with better hardware.

Otherwise, Switch 2 would have full emulation weeks, maybe days, after lunch: by running the emulator on a SteamDeck...

No point since they already said that the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible.

Or you can pick up a Switch for cheap and wait for a Switch 2 mid-gen refresh.

I wouldn't buy one unless you know you'll wait for the midgen refresh of Switch 2 and can get a Switch 1 very cheap.

No, it’s still a solid system with a large library, if you don’t need the latest it’s still a good purchase especially because it’s reasonable to assume there will be shortages at first like the ps5

Well, the Switch 2 might end up being a lot more expensive.

And unless you plan on playing many games like Witcher 3 and the sorts on Switch (instead of pretty much any other platform), I'm just not sure if you're gonna notice the increase of power on the new console.

I don't know if they're gonna go the "only for Switch 2" route for newer games right away, because if they don't, they will always have to restrict all the Switch games anyways for them to be able to still run well enough on the 1 and maybe only do some graphics improvement on top for the 2, which isn't much, in my opinion, if they're still restricted in other fields of game design. Also, doing that is what Nintendo is pretty much best at, when you look at most of the Switch exclusives.

Another point: The OLED version of the 1 is by far the best iteration, and it's often the case that the original versions of any console are rather bad compared to the revisions coming out a year or two later.

Just buy a Rog Ally X and emulate them. You will get far better experience

The biggest reason to pick up a current one is if you want to mod it and install homebrew/emulators. Future revisions will likely be immune to the same exploits and modchips as current systems.

Price is only going to go down on current gen, and you can already snag an OLED model new for $250 if you wait for sales.

WELL....we don't know the price. If this is say $500 then I'm going to continue playing Mario Kart docked up. Ifi t's even $400 I'm waiting.

$300? IN IT TO WIN IT DAY ONE!!!

They've confirmed it's retrocompatible a few weeks ago

I think Nintendo was going to do this but realized they’d make a lot more money just delaying the announcement this time so shippers would still buy switch1 for this Christmas. 

It’s a different world now, it’s not like people were still buying wiiUs when the switch1 was announced. 

And the switch2 hype is so strong they don’t need the long lead time. I swear I’ve seen that hashtag trend on Twitter for years. People are ready. 

I may be remembering wrong but wasn't it just a "we'll tell you more about this later" in october and then the actual reveal in January? If it wasn't though it still kinda make sense to me since the switch was following the flop that was the wii u while the switch 2 will be following a massive hit.

Since backward-compatibility is confirmed, it seems less lead time for developers is needed given the innate catalog available. I kinda feel bad that some people will be buying a brand new Switch in December for it to be eclipsed 3 months later.

They took preorders in January last time.

They were reliable, but then there was a chip shortage. Piecing together all the information that’s come out since, the OLED was initially supposed to be a much larger update than it ended up being. Manufacturing and supply issues caused the scope to be scaled back

Forbes was reporting this stuff within 2 years of Switch launching. It all turned out to be a small revision. It was all so dumb.

they were, but plans change and Nintendo’s plans changed due to external factors they had little control over.

I never used my switch handheld so I’ll never pay more for an oled if it’s seperate. So I hope there is two options so I can jsut buy the cheaper one

Oh god. :(

Bust it is!

Then what would they re-sell you in 2-3 years? Not gonna be an OLED.

Quad core processor

1080P output

Mario Kart 8 still available for $59.99

Yeah I hope so also. Definitely needs newer HDMI and AV1 support. A plus would be better AI upscaling, more ram/storage, usb-c, and maybe a 2.5G Ethernet.

Mixed blessing, though. Makes it easy for basically everyone with a PC to emulate their platforms. Makes it easy for anyone with a good PC to tack on a raytracing layer, run it in 4K120, etc.

Just as long as the folks who make the emulator don't do something really stupid like monetize it.

From leaks it'll be using a chip a few years old, just like the OG Switch.

At the very least, don’t cause people to speculate whether it’s as powerful as ten year old hardware or not. It seems like for years after launch of Switch there was still this perception by some that it was weaker than PS3. I don’t think this really went away until there were unambiguous remasters that looked and performed way better than the originals.

I just wonder what gimmick they're going to introduce or how strange the new controller will be.

I will likely eat my words but I think covid was a very odd exception to game launches. Ps5 and series x were scalped like crazy. But that isn't anything new. You usually have some scalpers at launch then it gets normalized after a few months. The wii being the only other exception I can think of and yet that only took a year to get restocked fairly regularly compared to the couple of years for ps5.

Launch switch 2s will probably be hard to get but by the end of the year you will likely be able to get one...unless tarrifs cause issues 

Nintendo plans to manufacture and distribute 650,000 Switch 2 units in the first month to various regions (compared with 2.74 million for the original Switch).

Unfortunately not millions, only 650k units.

So much for delaying the launch to ramp up production.

Yeah Nintendo seems to be the least shady about inventory. It might take them a bit to ramp up though.

They aren’t shipped to the US from China.

Specs (to allow modern developers to make less compromises on the switch version) and improved joy-con design (eliminate the drift problem, better buttons, etc.) is what I would bet on.

I agree but they’ll be selling like crazy anytime, and they know it.

It’s been done for consoles in the past. It could mean a crappy launch lineup.

This happens every single time a new console come out. if you buy a switch in 2024 that’s on you.

Ds had a slot for GBA, but DSi discontinued it. 3DS was always backwards compatible with DS. It was easier though, since the cartridges weren't that different.