I'm legitimately surprised just how much hype has been killed post direct...

I'm legitimately surprised just how much hype has been killed post direct. After watching the direct I thought this was going to be another surefire hit, but the last few days have been a PR disaster for Nintendo. This thing probably wont breaker 50 Mil units.
I mean seriously what the fuck happened?

I mean seriously what the fuck happened?

Coordinated slander effort by the mainstream media. We told you people this shit was going to happen months ago. Sony and Microsoft are at their worst conditions in the console market in years, and with Sony trying especially hard to buy their way to relevancy again (as seen at Geoff's Shill Awards), everyone's trying to shit on Nintendo, the ONE company who was still doing pretty well for themselves.

Everyone was expecting $399 at most.
plus

lcd

lmao, just why for rev2.

what the fuck happened?

tariffs

what the fuck happened?

Americans voted for orange man

Don't worry, nintendo kiddies will buy it regardless of the price or $80 games that look like ps3 games

I'm not worried.

OP is a PC vegan btw

Nintendo went full pants on head retarded arrogant/greedy on top of already being evil. The warning signs were all already there and they do not get enough shit for any of it.

everyone is buying it anyway. The people complaining on the internet is a very small porcentage of the world's population

The general public care far more about price than diehards invested in the hobby do.

Sony has been doing great for years, what the fuck are you talking about? Just because you and Indonesian teenagers like to spam

NO GAMES

memes doesn't mean it reflects reality.

I imagine quite a few people that were complaining last week are going to show up to launch anyways, fearing potential future price increases.

I'm legitimately surprised just how much hype has been killed post direct.

snoy media are trying to bury it
The same people who cry so loudly about games studios being shut down are suddenly up in arms about price increases
I understand why discord trannies with no income are mad about a ten dollar price hike but not "industry insiders" who've been claiming for years this was coming

NOOOO IT CANT BE THE WHOLESOME BILLION DOLLAR CORPORINO IT WAS HECKIN EVIL BLOOOOOOOMF!! THINK OF THE POOR BOOMERS WHO CANT RENOVATE THEIR YACHT NOW

I'm legitimately surprised just how much hype has been killed post direct.

Kek'd

price, of everything

key card shit

no killer must have title to justify upgrade

no mainline Mario after 8 years

preorder is on, nah its off lol (in 2 days time)

Getting real hard defending these dumb fucks.

$450 console (potentially more based on tariffs)

$80-90 games

$70+ for ports that look worse than on PS5 or PC

$80 pro controller 2

$50 camera attachment

$90 for Joy con 2 controllers

$35 for Joy con 2 grip

$100+ for new MicroSD card

$10-30 game upgrade fee

i'm good

$80 Mario Kart is bad and game cards are much worse. Yes, Nintendo hasn't used any yet, but having all the third party RPGs be on game cards is really lame. If they want to sell digital games I'll be getting them on PC instead of my bing bing wahoo machine.

This thing probably wont breaker 50 Mil units.

it'll hit that much in Japan alone.

Wii U preorders sold out immediately. Scalpers gonna scalp, bootlickers gonna bootlick.

Game key cards

Hype wasn't ever dead. Nintendo literally got a week of free press from faggots crying about pricing, terrif nonsense, and pre-order cucking. Controversy does create cash.

pic

Fucking seriously?

You forgot

$500 TV to play it on

$600 sofa to sit on

$200 electricity bill

$200000 house to live in

It's sold out just about everywhere except in third world countries where preorders were pulled

shop has 10 preorders available

they get reserved

OMG THE SHITCH 2 IS LIKE SUPER POPULAR GUISE!

Funny how they haven't given us the numbers yet....

This will sell a lot in the first month now that the tariffs are coming later

Somebody post the imagine of that soccer mom with a van full of WiiUs trying to scalp the shit out of them

yeah this reminds me of when people shit on those wireless apple airpods for being too expensive so people started buying them ironically so they could make tiktoks about being better than poor people which caused them to be massively successful despite them being worse than over the ear headphones in every way

It will sell about as good as xbox one launch.

Wii U

This is nothing like a Wii U scenario. Wii U had no games, no 3rd party support. People go where the games are. Switch 2 has games and support out the ass.

All you're doing is seething and coping because Nintendo have already won.

I will buy a Lite version I guess. But it's going to take 2 years until they release the cheap version, and by that time I may have switched to computer games completely

somebody post the list of PS5 exclusives

hype has literally not died, pre-orders are selling out in many countries that have them and it's gonna be a massive success

don't believe the misinformation campaign

third party support

game running at 30fps (15 real + 15 fake frames)

I can't wait

Anon Babble trannies are going to humiliate themselves again, right up to launch and beyond.

Over half of Switch 2s lineup are LITERAL Switch 1 ports
The other half are sequels or remakes kek

what the fuck happened?

specifically, it was the pricing of first part games.

Then details of the console like the joycons being not hall effects and costing $90 to replace, the "C" button requiring the online service and the console pre-order being delayed after everyone thought the Tarriffs were added to the price but were not.

I haven't really paid much attention to the consoles in a while but after I was told about this Switch 2 release, it is fucking wild to think this is not to be expect. You will buy it and they will milk you dry. in the big picture they really have the setup in place for it too.

Getting people to pay more for games they own on the switch with "Upgrade pack" for $10

New Mario Kart game is $80

New Mario Kart game will almost 100% come out with a Track DLC and Character DLC for 15-20 each

Some feature and mode may be locked unless you get the online sub

Online 9.99/month or 99.99/year

Get tired of Kart and think about cancelling online service

tell people some game will get "Free" update to games they already own but you still need the online service

Nintendo and publishers will drip feed the "Free" updates

Will still buy the fourth release of Ocarina of Time and other game because they will add some dumb shit like a speedrun mode, achievements and leaderboard that will require online service

other game that do not get an "Upgrade pack" or are not backward compatible will be re-re-rereleased

New Nintendo game costing $80 release around 7-8 months that will have some online mode that will require

New game will have update for "Free" but require Nintendo online

Continue cycle every 7-8 months with one "Big" title

This is fucking brilliant! There are other things that can be discussed but this cycle of payment is pretty fucking efficient, and I can respect that. You fucker are going to pay, no doubt about that.

The peak of the hype was late last year, and they missed their shot.

Third party games do not matter, the success of the switch proved this.
If you have a ps5 or pc already and want to play elden ring you don't need to buy a switch 2. If you want Mario Kart World then you have to buy a switch 2.
Exclusives are king and Switch 2 will be the only console with exclusives this gen

If you want Mario Kart World

Open World slop everybody will play on their Steam Decks in a year for 2 hours

Online 9.99/month or 99.99/year

lol what the fuck are you smoking?

Wii U sold out instantly and that was such a huge success

Mario Kart World is open world slop

Top kek, yeah go play Avowed and pretty you're playing Mario Kart World lmao

You sustain yourself on nintendo's semen to survive, shut the fuck up aspie arthur.

it'll happen. it is literally that standard. it will happen. trust me

Price

I already preordered the switch 2, mariokart, donkey kong, zelda and the protective case. Now seethe, incel.

Switch 2 software is not compatible with analog triggers

>$50 camera attachment

$50 camera attachment

On the opposite side, I'm surprised that my parents, my colleagues at work, all heard about the Switch 2 due to that

lmao the amount of time you’ve spent posting this over and over, you could have saved up enough in your little piggy bank for a switch 2. Instead you’ll be doom posting while everyone else is having fun.

That camera isn't $50 son. It's lower resolution than the actual standard camera.

The cope and seethe is hilarious.

Coordinated slander effort by the mainstream media

maga and nintendo, name a worse combination of cultists

whatever discord you crawled out of

That schizo hasn't slept in over a week

I'm not buying it, tendie.
It's that simple

Coordinated slander effort by the mainstream media

This is what tendies actually believe

>$50 camera

Take me back

You seriously think they're going to add gcn without a price hike? I remember when tendies were gloating and saying nintendo would never ever do paid online and then just bent right over when they did.

Christ.

I'm not buying it, tendie.

It's that simple

I already have 3x Mario kart bundled preordered. Seethe harder lmao

Nintendo are to blame for what everyone else does

Why are schizos so obsessed with Nintendo?

If there was a price hike, they would've said so in the Direct.

Anon...

They didn't even disclose the price of the hardware, software or upgrades in the switch 2 direct. why are you so fucking delulu

Thats a bad sign bro, people were aware of the xbone debacle too.

Hitting mainstream is good when its positive or neutral to your cause, negative will just make normalfags wary.

But they didn't

inb4 "STOP BOOTLICKING! You're supposed to be MAAAADD!"

Why are you niggas like this?

The Direct was awesome, but there was a reason why they didn't talk about pricing there.

I don't know who made their pricing strategy but they went full Don Mattrick there.

Outrage grifting happened.

lmao

Let me put this in terms your feeble mind will comprehend. The wee wee U was cringe. The switch 2 is based. This but unironically.

Good going, sister! With enough bait threads people won't realize that everyone will pay double for anything Sony makes due to the 125% tariffs!

No shit. Dumbfucks like RGT85 is getting excessively clickbaitey. Even ReviewTechUSA had to talk about it.

Are they going to drop the prices now that the tariffs are gone?

n-not the same...

Why would they retard. Use your brain

passive aggressive whataboutism

It’s kids. Their parents don’t get covid checks anymore so they’re not guaranteed a big new expensive thing anytime one comes out. They’re mad because a YouTuber said yes but mom said no.

The same mainstream media that gives Zelda and Mario 10/10's

Nothing is gonna happen. If anything, it's going to boost sales because people are going to be panic buying

now that the tariffs are gone?

What did I miss?

but they are not gone but MUCH more important, why should they?

No. The prices had nothing to do with the tariffs, the tariffs are just paused and nintendo still has to deal with a 10% tariff so it'll likely go up $50.

Tariffs are being paused for 90 days.

They say that for every classic controller they released

Literally doesn't matter
I guarantee switch 2 will sell like hotcakes
People bitching will turn into people buying as soon as it comes out

Pre-tariff prices, retards. The tariffs weren't announced until AFTER the direct. They'll be even worse once they recalibrate.

I thought that was fake news?

Personally for me, I think watching that direct made me realize that I'm not actually all that interested in gaming anymore. Don't get me wrong, I still play the occasional NES or PS2, but I don't look forward to any games or hardware anymore as a 34 year old millennial, at least not enough to spend that kind of money on it. I'd rather just go back and play Gradius or Tekken 5 again, at least that won't make my wallet bleed.

It WILL be the hottest item this Christmas. If you wanna make an easy band: sell it before Christmas.

why didn't sony get dogpiled for $70 games and $500 system?

But tendies were saying the prices was because of tariffs and Nintendo wasn't at fault??

Only for MSNBC retards.

oh yeah like the xbox fucking one?

what the fuck happened

More expensive than anyone expected, but more importantly, zero of the improvements everyone expected.
- no fix for joycon drift
- no improvements to online performance
- no OLED

The weak launch lineup doesn’t help. Really, just Mario Kart and a Prime 4 port? After all those years of ports on Switch 1? What have they been doing this whole time?

Sony is used to expensive ass consoles for anyone who's payed attention for the past 20 years.

OH

NOES

THE HYPE IS DEAD

NINTENDO IS DOOOO00000OOOOMMED!!!

AGAIN!!!!

BUT THIS TIME IT WILL HAPPEN!!!!!

100% IT'S OVER FOR NINTENDO!!!!

THIS TIME IT'S FOR SURE!!!1!!!

non, most people and I mean a good 70% are people who are 25-45 and childless. this is known throughout the industry. when was the last time you saw a proper console sale or deal for Christmas?

they did and there playerbase shrank by a lot. it is why they started releasing exclusives on PC.

tendies were tendying

and water is wet

Everyone knew the XBOX One was wack. I worked Black Friday after the thing launched and only 3 of a dozen consoles our store got were sold. Thats when I knew it was DoA.

I think after Ass Creed Shadows came and went, all the grifters on twitter needed something new to get mad about. Enter the Switch 2.

Right yeah nobody ever shits on sony only poor helpless innocent nintendo

The prices were raised before tariffs, retards. Nintendo is just going full throttle on the greed & they deserve to see losses because of it, but most consumers are sheep so we'll see Nintendo get rewarded for their greed instead.

I boughted it before even watching the direct
I don't live in USA so I don't have to jump through hoops like you losers to get my Bing Bing fulfilment

Editing game covers and returning them is a great idea

well, you're gonna have to play docked because apparently the battery life handheld is 2 hours max

Nintendo's games still look like wii u titles too, like what the fuck is the point besides letting nintendo pilfer my bank account? To play shitty versions of 3rd party games that came out years ago only to not get any new ones anyway, again? Fuck right off, nintendo.

What have they been doing this whole time?

This is a valid question. Nintendo is big enough to be a nation. They can't put some teams together to crank out some goddamn games? Do they even make games anymore? Am I crazy? I could swear these companies used to make games with some regularity back in the day. Or did I hallucinate that?

the joycons being not hall effects

you do know there are other stick technologies that don't have to be drifting carbon film crap, right?
i suspect they couldn't use hall effect sticks because of the way joycons attach to the console (a very strong electromagnet, supposedly), which could fuck with hall effect sticks.
it's gonna be carbon film crap isn't it

Reminder that Nintendo ENDED with Iwata.

Bullshit

*Thrived without him

Based

*sony ended with iwata (and iwata's switch killing them)

The Switch was Iwata's last will and testament.

it's gonna be carbon film crap isn't it

You know it

I honestly think it died in 2012 with the bad launch of the Wii U and Nintendo beginning to start offering DLC for 3DS games.

Disingenuous post. Nobody defended $70 games except retards and shills which maps perfectly to what is happening now.

The switch 2 isn't even out yet but it has more exclusives than the ps5

Bad pricing. Also, the physical copies of games aren't physical copies.

JUST

I don't think they really know how to design games anymore which is why it takes them forever for these mediocre showings, they just have enough money to try and compensate for that fact.

or that money could go to a way better investment like a gaming PC lmao

drop the prices

kek

My policy isn't going to change

90 day pause on tariffs

pause is off, tariffs are active and twice as high

They'd be unwise to

I honestly believe they don’t have the talent to make compelling games anymore. Or if they do, they are so hamstrung by management that the difference is imperceptible.

I can’t see it any other way. How can the online functionality of online-centric games like Splatoon and Smash be so bad? They are worth 90 BILLION. They really can’t find a guy who knows how to look up a rollback tutorial? And that’s a bare-minimum basic technical implementation. It’s much easier than a question like “how do we make the game balanced”, which of course they also completely fail at.

Even the single player staples like Mario are simplified, formulaic, and focus tested to the point of self-parody. It’s not just that they don’t want to take risks - they can’t.

They cant even remake their own old games. Not even simple 2D shit that should take six months like Advance Wars. It’s actually crazy.

It's less about "they don't know how" and more "they don't want to, because dogshit sells millions anyway."
They've taken notes from how Pokemon profits, and are following it to immense success.

That’s definitely part of it, but if that was the only problem, they’d at least be pumping out more trash for us to buy. They straight up do not have anything besides Mario Kart and a port of Metroid for launch after the last two years of ports.

PS5 literally has no games bro. 99% of the library are PS4 games

Our guy Charlie speaks the truth!

youtu.be/JJNdCRyOZ9w?si=6URhiLa_PsF-XzBq

Even if you ignore the price the console is pretty boring. Only 2 launch titles, one of them is an instruction manual. No interesting new features or gimmicks. Underwhelming performance. We can't even get simple features like a built in camera, or dual screen streaming similar to wii u.

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They've got calarts kong, but yeah, they've done basically fuck all for the last 5 years, the last two especially. It took them 7 years to shit out a regurgitation of botw when a far more unique and interesting game like mm took them under a year 25 years ago.

if anything this tariff business has helped keep the console in the media and people discussing it

what the fuck happened?

Nintendo was not prepared for the misinformation era America is in. So many fake articles saying things like it's an all digital console or you can't play Switch 1 games, and they're just staying silent about these issues unless someone personally reaches out to them.
oh, and americans let trump win.

Nintendo have taken steps to reduce scalpers with their invite system

Even that’s coming out a month after launch, but let’s be generous and count it anyway. What is this lineup? Mario Kart, 3D Donkey Kong, and upscale Metroid? Seriously…what is the idea here? All three of these games (and the prices AND trailer) target millennials. Kids don’t care about DK64 or DK in general. Kids don’t care about Metroid at all. They will play Mario Kart, but it’s hardly their favorite multiplayer game. So why does everything in the lineup except Metroid look like it’s targeting 10 year olds? Major management issues.

And I forgot Air Ride later in the year, another game that nobody born after 2005 has a clue about or gives a shit about.

People didn't care about Sony "games" because they get 80% discount a week later.
Nintendo games (actually offer value) the price is going to stick around, you're lucky if they go 50% on holidays.

I wonder how many he bought? 2-3?

Tendies have no standards and will buy out every edition no matter what. $60 Mario Kart 8 is still a top seller over a decade after release. $80 new Mario Kart will sell even more

Tendies have no standards and will buy out every edition no matter what.

And that's why the WiiU sold 170 million units, right? Stop being a clown.

Oh I thought that was a launch title lol

Nintendo have taken steps to reduce scalpers with their invite system

This is such bullshit.I know people think they is a BIG network of "scalper" working together but most of the "Scalped" products are people who bought a pre-order that ran out or just know they can turn a quick buck. I hard a RTX 4070 for $600. I just flipped it on ebay for quick $1000. I than bought the 4070 later for msrp again.

most people with pre-order, sell the pro-ordered device and later just walk into a shop and buy it

Launch $50 over what people were willing to pay

On again off again on again off again pre-orders

Only mario kart at launch

STILL no actual price announced

Orange retard nuked the economy so nobody has any money

Should have launched with a new splatoon

Who?

This is another wii u situation. Everything about this just looks terrible, I can't imagine ever buying this and I know I won't be punished for because every vaguely successful 4/10 game it gets will be recycled onto the next system. I can guarantee not even a year into this things lifespan the retarded shitheads here will be celebrated getting to pay $80 for ported GameCube games with worse graphics and that will be the switch 2's entire line up from then on.

We're still never, and I really do mean "never" here, getting a new Wii U situation, for the simple fact that Nintendo has combined both their home console market, which has always been up and down, to their handheld market, which has always been incredibly successful, so they're guaranteed at least 60m to 80m sales on every console they put out in the future I'd stipulate.

Why would you announce negative things. Like the whole having to spend money for upgraded games? Why announce it... Even if you are going to do it just shut up about it until the console comes out.

Why mention why the built in free game is actually "Paid". They literally said it's paid knowing people would expect it to be free. They don't say Metroid Prime 4 is "Paid" because no shit it is.

Yeah man, they should just not have had a reveal period, it should've just showed up in stores one day unannounced and forced people to take a wild guess on what the fuck is going on.

I mean I'm glad they announced it's negatives as a consumer but from their point of view I don't see why not just only say the positives. I feel like anyone could have told them people would be pissed off and should probably keep some of that shit on the down low.

You make an announcement on how the Switch 2 can play Switch 1 games backwards compatible with increases performance. You don't mention that have to re-pay for them at all and just let people figure that out at launch.

How is the upgrade pack "negative"? If $10 is too much for you then don't buy it lol

Thing that has no reason to not be free costs money instead

You Nintendo people sure are something.

I don't see any Snoys bitching about the upgrade packs for their PS4 to PS5 games.

…Nintendo has combined both their home console market, which has always been up and down, to their handheld market, which has always been incredibly successful, so they're guaranteed at least 60m to 80m sales…

Only that’s not what happened. They didn’t *combine* their handhelds. They *sacrificed* them. The Switch 1 didn’t have the equivalent of Wii+DS games. It just had a typical if not underwhelming library of first party titles, half of which were from the WiiU. There was no Golden Sun or Wario Land or even Nintendogs. All those kinds of games just went away. They are not a backstop.

of course it didn't have the equivalent, those got replaced by indie games
nintendo did in fact merge their console and handheld R&D divisions, hell the successor of the EPD division originally led by gunpei yokoi is the team currently responsible for warioware and rhythm heaven

Ignoring the announced free updates for various games, you can just not pay it, you know? And then just enjoy the games playing on better hardware. It's not gonna have any new plot lines or game modes or whatever, but do you really need that?

tariffs paused for 90 days

so there's a chance it could be priced at around $450 instead of being something retarded like $650, thank fuck

The SHITendo SHIT Number 2!

See you tomorrow.

The prices weren't going to change in the first place

Trump is just trying to manipulate the market.

Consumers don’t care about corporate restructuring and nobody wants great value versions of Nintendo games. Nintendo carried the big ones like Pokemon over (although they did a horrendous job), but all the smaller stuff is completely gone. That incentive for customers is gone.

yeah management seems kinda fucked
or maybe talent available in japan is just that low?
They've had issues putting games out for 3 generations now, and it just gets worse and worse. It may seem like it was getting better with the Switch launch, but they just blew their load early apparently. Not only could they not get another Mario out in the switch lifetime, they couldnt get another one out into the Switch 2. Just wild.
3 years between Galaxy 2 and World. 4 years between World and Odyssey. Almost 8 years and counting between Odyssey and ????
They don't have the excuse for the initially weak Wii U lineup that was claimed that too many resources had to go to the 3DS anymore, since they merged them. And yet things are worse than before.
I wonder what's going on.