How did they fuck up so bad?

They did everything right. They just didn't expect that a retard would become the president of the US for a second time

they

Genuine incompetence to fall into this position. Not having preorders in your biggest market? Cancelling them in Canada the day before?

But Biden didn't win?

The funniest shit is seeing Tendies scramble to protect these retards

They still did everything right.

The console's current price is comparable to others in the past when adjusted for inflation. A ps3 in trump dollars right now would be close to 1000 dollars. It's the same price as a ps4 in 2013.

it's your fault for voting for trump who put tariffs on japan

imagine being such a fag that you are not satisfied with the consoles that you have
you need the switch 2 now

new consoles suck anyway. half of the games are remakes or remasters of old games

in 60 years these will be genshin impact themed

no
how did WE fuck up so bad?

60 years

Give it 10

It's a gameboy. that you can play on your tv for an additional 200 dollars!

strong enough where it's a pain to emulate on average hardware / other handhelds

weak enough where it can't run ps4 games at 30fps

masterful gambit nintendo

complain to Nintendo for not being like the rest and want it to drop gimmicks and make beefier hardware that will cost way too much

complain to Nintendo for being like the rest dropping gimmicks and making beefier hardware that costs too much

As consumer I need to ask you; what the fuck do you really want?! You give them nothing but mixed signals

I'm in a bad way. Old gamer but haven't bought a console since Wii. My 8 year old son got into it w me through emulation, so we've just been running through all the big classics (and some on Yuzu like Odyssey & Kirby).

He's fucking hyped for a Switch 2 & told him I'd buy him one months ago, but this looks like absolute dog shit. No mainline Mario game either after 8 years & a bunch of updated old games.

The prices, that key card crap, now this switcheroo with pre orders. Its all fucked.

snoy revisionism

Surely Sony didn't do that with PS3 and PS5, right?

they didn't. it will be the best selling console ever, AGAIN, and Anon Babble will be shitting blood for the next several months.

Capcom CEO talking about how games now are underprice

EA wanting to raise the price of their games

Ubisoft talking about how you wont own your games and AAAA development

Rockstar unironically pulling the 100$ base game idea

Sony/Microsoft etc wanting to price raise subscription based services

Nintendo is just going in the direction most of these big companies want to go, '''game''' jurnos will blame it on tariffs as if this kikery wasn't always in the works. The sad part is Nintendo will get away with it, their fanbase is the biggest group of bootlickers

Nintendo is just going in the direction most of these big companies want to go

This. Shitflinging at Nintendo is futile; you forced them to join that party, they only did it last as usual

Greed.

My guess is they're planning on dropping the price

Fucking kek, insane take. They're going to increase it by $100 minimum, maybe even $200.

Exactly, Nintendo is merely leading the way for other companies to follow.

clamshell bros I dont feel so good....

They didn't cancel preorders

suddenly, snoyfags

They're going to increase it by $100 minimum, maybe even $200.

Fucking lmao, that would fucking slaughter the fucking console and cause it to rot to shit on shelves. They'll have no fucking choice but to lower it, or retailers will as the goddamn thing languishes on the shelves that even hardcorefags won't touch the fucking thing.

This whole thing has been a scrambled fiasco, they throw together a separate direct with all these gay little events, a tentative price with tentative preorders for a system thats here in 2 months.....

Everyone bought a switch because everyone was trapped inside and got covid checks. Normies arent getting out of bed for a 600 dollar switch+

The only choice they have is raise the price or keep it the same. There is absolutely 0% chance they'll lower it with the tariffs.

Problem is people already think their pretariff pricing of 450 is too high. Theyre up against the wall right now

they didn't rig the election against drumpf

I agree, they fucked themselves by being greedy with the original pricing. They might have barely got away with raising after the tariffs if they had priced it the same as the Japan console.

Who knows though, I feel like we live in the most consumerist age ever so people will probably cry about it but buy it anyway.

Sounds like cope since every place that had pre-orders up have soldout. You better be prepared to be wrong like you were wrong about Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds and the Minecraft movie. All your complaints do not matter to normies in the slightest.

like you were wrong about all these things

I never believed for a moment any of those things would do poorly, I even bought two of them. But people dont have free covid money and 450 for what is seen as a marginally more powerful switch isnt giving any normies a boner.
My terminally mario kart addicted wife specifically said "Fuck that, we'll get a used one in a couple years"

How did they make something that will sell a billion by slapping a 2 on it?
Who knows...

You gotta get out of the basement, you're starting to have conversations with pillows

They still did everything right.

They thought $80 for a Kart Racer was a good idea.
Honestly if they had just kept their games at $60, everyone would be raving about this console being the second coming of Christ. $450 for the console is steep but not entirely unreasonable, game chat could be ignored with some cumbersome discord setup, and $10 for a tech demo could've easily been an amusing side note. All these things could've been ignored while everyone praises Nintendo for inventing 4k, 120FPS, and HDR.
But nope. $80 for Mario Kart. Fucking lol.