A new era of pricing: Switch 2 $450 MK World $80 DK $70 UPDATE: Switch 2 price stays, accessories go up

And at that time, $600 for PS3 was actually worth it. That was a different time giving the fact it was Blu-Ray Player which a single Blu-Ray Player was really expensive compare to PS3. The first Blu-Ray player that came out in the summer of 2006 was over $1000 US dollars. The drives were expensive back then but Sony was able to get away with it by not overpricing the PS3 to a grand and it's why it got price at $600. PS3 (mainly the fatties) came with BC for PS2 and a few BC for PS1 games. Internet access was a nice feature and online was free. They clearly meant "It does everything"

Considerably more people were buying a PS3 vs a standalone Blu-Ray player so that meant cheaper overall production costs for PS3 vs standalone Blu-Ray players since a greater quantity of PS3 were being manufactured. And as Chutebox pointed out, the consoles were still sold at a loss regardless till Kaze came and fixed that. (I could be wrong but I think Sony lost $200 per unit sold which was absolutely insane. They dropped BC and other features after they realized that software sales were not making up for it like they originally envisioned)

Nintendo keeping silent on the discourse.

No it was not worth it, and lousy PS3 launch sales reflect that. No Blu-Ray player was worth the price they were asking for at the time.

@Renegade_Fury: Nintendo has had many highs and lows over its history, and they will get clapped again.

To be fair the PS3 at launch was a pretty feature rich system. Had full backwards compatibility for both the PS and PS2, had support for a bunch of card formats and what not, Linux support, etc.

Aaaaaand then they took that away.

PS3 at the time may have been the cheaper Blu-Ray player, if watching movies was really your reason for buying a video game console; but the actual Blu-Ray players were absurdly priced to begin with (none of it was worth it).

Launch sales and backlash for the PS3 is engraved in history at this point, and consumers said it was not worth it and forced Sony to lower the price.

I can wait until the price of the Switch 2 goes down as I am not interested in the launch titles or the games that will be released this year. I am also wondering the point of having home consoles if a decent PC can play games with better hardware and performance. As long as home console remain relevant, they cannot be legacy systems.

@jaydan: Yeah, they took that and a bunch of other features away to make the system cheaper.

Not saying that it wasn’t seen as being too expensive by consumers. Just saying that there was a lot to the system for that price when it launched.

@Archangel3371: I think it just opens up the gates beyond gaming consoles, but how electronics typically launch for the luxury consumers. Blu-Ray players were BS priced in the first place, and so was the PS3, 4k TV's, new Apple products, etc. New electronics just aren't catered for the average consumer and that's what's most BS of all.

@jaydan: To you maybe. If you take opinions out of it and just compare it to stand alone players, then ya.

@Chutebox: PS3 was going off a cliff at the $600 price tag, and Blu-Ray was not going to save that. The PS3 only started to sell when Sony lowered the price. People voted with their wallets at the time, and that was not enough to get people to buy the PS3 at the price they were asking for.

Blu-Ray players in general at the time, for $1K, was downright ridiculous, and I'm an avid Blu-Ray collector with hundreds of Blu-Ray movies.

@jaydan: Nothing you said changes ps3 being the cheapest BD player.

Super Nintendo had 80 dollar games..... Nintendo going back to the GOAT era with Switch 2. The golden age begins again.

The pricing for the Switch 2 games are very bad.

Yes it was. It had full backwards compatibility with the two previous PlayStation's, built in wifi( which was a $100 add on for the 360) and a high end blu-ray player. Problem was it launched right at the beginning of a recession.

hard pass now

Yeah the system itself is good enough, especially for the hardware you get(not 2x better than the steamdeck from the looks of it), but everything else surrounding the system is ass.

Sure, you can get the 500 dollar one and get Mario Kart for "50 bucks", but what about the other games then? The next Fire Emblem, the next Pokemon, the next Zelda?

Yeah. As soon as I saw the price of that console and the games, I noped so fast. Like I said, my Switch 1 and PC will serve me just fine until Nintendo gets some sense.

Snow White is grown men pretending that they actually cared for Snow White the movie...

And I say that as someone who won't even see the movie. Aside from the evil queen, Snow White was always rather mid. And I really don't like the Disney cartoon to live action movies. Why Disney picked a CEO that doesn't care for cartoons, I'll never know.

"Giggles"

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You Can Play as the Moo Moo Meadows Cow in Mario Kart World and the Internet Is Thrilled - IGN

You Can Play as the Moo Moo Meadows Cow in Mario Kart World and the Internet Is Thrilled

The Moo Moo, or just Cow as they're referred to in the official roster, is getting special attention online from the community. Already, people are drawing up fanart to celebrate this cute, goofy, seemingly random edition to a line-up that, up til now, has largely included the Mario series' most famous and beloved characters.

Yeah. It's also kinda like the Tesla boycotts going on right now, too. Those Tesla stocks dropping off a cliff.

These boycotters need to take that energy and apply it to Nintendo now so they can lower these prices.

Wow Switch 2 is basically the OG Xbox One reveal but not getting nearly as bad backlash. If Microsoft did everything Nintendo is doing with the Switch 2 you'd bet people would boo them out of the industry.

Thank god for the Steam Deck and PC handhelds giving us an alternative for portable gaming.

Nintendo has been getting roasted across the board. Their Nintendo Treehouse presentations have been getting dominated with "LOWER THE PRICE" nonstop in the chat room. All the big Nintendo people on YouTube are calling it out too, and places like IGN are just throwing it out there how expensive it all is too.

Not sure what level the backlash is compared to Xbox One, but it's getting a lot of backlash and I'm not sure it's simply going to just go away until Nintendo responds and lowers the prices.

well it hasn't happed yet. besides it has already forced these foreign countries to make more us factories. it also forces us factories to make parts here instead of over seas. apple has already started to buy factories here. more jobs = better economy. so prices will start to lower.

say the product cost 50 bucks today then you add tariffs and say it goes to 55. but then the price is reduced to 45 with tariffs still cheaper then before.

lol :P

Yea, sick to PC thanks.

Americans are getting fucked either way. Pay higher prices on imported products due to tarrifs or pay higher prices on domestic products due to higher cost of labour and production.

Want things to stay cheap? Get rid of tariffs and take advantage of cheap production costs elsewhere. Companies have been producing products that way for a reason...

Then there is the added problem of more pollution, waste, and environmental impact that you have to deal with when producing things domestically.

Be careful what you wish for.

@SecretPolice: Unfortunately that is going to happen 🤣

@SecretPolice said:

lol :P

lmfao...shit man im pretty close to this as well. But this time around theres a psychological barrier, and I'm just not willing to spend so much. The only reason I want the switch 2 is for metroid prime 4. Without that, theres nothing to entice me.

@blaznwiipspman1 said:

@SecretPolice said:

lol :P

lmfao...shit man im pretty close to this as well. But this time around theres a psychological barrier, and I'm just not willing to spend so much. The only reason I want the switch 2 is for metroid prime 4. Without that, theres nothing to entice me.

It's on the Switch 1, so you can still get it.

Nintendo delayed the Switch 2 preorders in US because of tariffs! hahaha

There you have it, those prices are PRE TARIFF!

@gifford38: Please educate yourself for the love of humanity.

Oh boy, this is *pre* tariff pricing??? RIP Nintendo.

I wonder what are the chances of Nintendo keeping it the same price post-tariff

Watching the Treehouse and the chat is an absolute mess. Surprised they left it open.

Nintendo gets cooked for their greed, now with tariffs they might extra cooked here

I wonder what percentage of all Nintendo software/hardware sales is in the U.S :P

Switch 2 might end up doing Wii U #'s here in the U.S.

Might be worth it to Nintendo to build a switch factory in the U.S lol..

The announced price is with tariffs in mind. Remember, Nintendo didn’t immediately announce the price on the stream. And the region locked Japanese console is much cheaper. Nintendo was prepared for a certain tariff. Whats killing them is that they moved their production to a region that’s being SLAMMED with tariffs. It’s worse than if they stayed put.

We might see as much as a $100 price increase. Or they could delay the U.S. launch by a substantial amount of time

Edit: This is where the Switch 2s fate is held

If Vietnam decides to drop the existing tariffs they have against the U.S. The U.S will end up dropping their tariffs.

President Donald Trump stated in a post to Truth Social: “Just had a very productive call with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their Tariffs down to ZERO if they are able to make an agreement with the U.S. I thanked him on behalf of our Country, and said I look forward to a meeting in the near future.” Analysts have highlighted that reciprocal tariffs came in “worse than anticipated across-the-board,” with Vietnam most meaningful for Softlines stocks and China/Vietnam for Hardlines.

https://www.tipranks.com/news/the-fly/trump-says-had-very-productive-call-with-vietnam-leadership-about-tariffs

@ghostofgolden: woops missed that you posted the same thing!

@drfecalstein said:

@Chutebox said:

Nintendo delayed the Switch 2 preorders in US because of tariffs! hahaha

There you have it, those prices are PRE TARIFF!

Nintendo gets cooked for their greed, now with tariffs they might extra cooked here

I wonder what percentage of all Nintendo software/hardware sales is in the U.S :P

Switch 2 might end up doing Wii U #'s here in the U.S.

Might be worth it to Nintendo to build a switch factory in the U.S lol..

they can't build a factory, train workers, source all US parts that quickly. It takes years to do such a thing, longer than the trump term anyways.

@blaznwiipspman1 said:

@drfecalstein said:

@Chutebox said:

Nintendo delayed the Switch 2 preorders in US because of tariffs! hahaha

There you have it, those prices are PRE TARIFF!

Nintendo gets cooked for their greed, now with tariffs they might extra cooked here

I wonder what percentage of all Nintendo software/hardware sales is in the U.S :P

Switch 2 might end up doing Wii U #'s here in the U.S.

Might be worth it to Nintendo to build a switch factory in the U.S lol..

they can't build a factory, train workers, source all US parts that quickly. It takes years to do such a thing, longer than the trump term anyways.

Yeah might be tough for nintendo, it can be done but not sure if Nintendo can swing it. Apple can though.

Apple is investing $500 billion in US manufacturing and innovation, including opening a 250,000-square-foot AI server manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas, slated to open in 2026, and hiring 20,000 new employees.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/24/apple-to-open-texas-ai-server-factory-in-500-billion-us-expansion.html

Nintendo's best bet is Vietnam drops their existing tariffs on the U.S. Then this will all be moot. Trump saying he's talked to them already and they want to get to 0% tariff on a deal is a good sign. Manufacturing is huge for Vietnam (many have left china for them) so its worth it to them to drop the tariffs they have on the U.S to avoid the reciprocal tariff.

This really sucks. We were suppose to be celebrating the reveal of a cool new system and a bunch of fantastic games. Instead we got this ****show now. It’s pretty sad really.

@BassMan said:

@gifford38 said:

@Pedro said:

@gifford38: Taxes that citizens of the country pays, not the US. Just like US citizens will be paying for the tariff, not the country. For someone who was whining about high prices it's pretty hilarious that you are suddenly fine with paying higher prices. Keep in mind this is across the board; with the exception of Russia, tariffs on all imports. 😂

well it hasn't happed yet. besides it has already forced these foreign countries to make more us factories. it also forces us factories to make parts here instead of over seas. apple has already started to buy factories here. more jobs = better economy. so prices will start to lower.

say the product cost 50 bucks today then you add tariffs and say it goes to 55. but then the price is reduced to 45 with tariffs still cheaper then before.

Americans are getting fucked either way. Pay higher prices on imported products due to tarrifs or pay higher prices on domestic products due to higher cost of labour and production.

Want things to stay cheap? Get rid of tariffs and take advantage of cheap production costs elsewhere. Companies have been producing products that way for a reason...

Then there is the added problem of more pollution, waste, and environmental impact that you have to deal with when producing things domestically.

Be careful what you wish for.

well that's our problem. cheap labor got us into this. cheap labor equals lower wages for immigrants. americans should be doing this labor and higher wages for immigrants as well. it will start to balance it self like it did 60 years ago. golden age is when fatories was a thing. now american car companys are starting to make there parts here. I would like to see made in america again instead of china. china is so far ahead of us now. have you seen there airports compared to ours? china makes there products and our products and there's. so if we start bringing in more factories and more there will be much more money into our economy. Tariffs generated about half of federal revenue from about 1860 to 1913.

what ever man. back to insulting instead of a educational response. 200% tax on ford products in china. why trump is going after them the most. I have been following this stuff lately. most of these tariffs are a bargaining tool for trump to lower our tax on american made trade. because the world been taxing us high for many many years.

@drfecalstein: I support the tarrifs to a certain extent, at least to even the playing field. There needs to be a certain level, ie 10% because those overseas factories have much lower labor costs. The people there, the lifestyles are much lower. On top of that, the factories are held to a lower standard, environmental rules aren't as strict as they are here. There should be a baseline tarrifs to ensure that countries compete on an even footing. Otherwise we will just get another China situation, where we fund another countries development at the cost of our own. The world also gets more polluted as a result. The US has much better waste management, and lower emissions than these 3rd world countries.

But putting tarrifs on developed countries, neighbors and close allies, like Canada, europe the UK is the height of stupidity. Trump needs to scale things back.

I do agree there should be tarrifs on Mexico though.

I agree man, this is a major bummer :(

I mean, the negativeness was occurring before the tariffs even made an impact. Nintendo initially did it to themselves.

@ghostofgolden said:

@omegamaster said:

@Chutebox said:

Nintendo delayed the Switch 2 preorders in US because of tariffs! hahaha

There you have it, those prices are PRE TARIFF!

I wonder what are the chances of Nintendo keeping it the same price post-tariff

The announced price is with tariffs in mind. Remember, Nintendo didn’t immediately announce the price on the stream. And the region locked Japanese console is much cheaper. Nintendo was prepared for a certain tariff. Whats killing them is that they moved their production to a region that’s being SLAMMED with tariffs. It’s worse than if they stayed put.

We might see as much as a $100 price increase. Or they could delay the U.S. launch by a substantial amount of time

Edit: This is where the Switch 2s fate is held

Switch 2 is being made there?

@Chutebox: Yep. The $80 games were what kicked things off and now it has gotten worse.

And the cost of controllers (for me) 🤬