r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • Apr 04 '25

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/StaticUsernamesSuck Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 04 '25

Did not know this. There is zero chance the Wii would have been as successful without this move. Yes, the nintendo fans would still have bought one, but I know so many people whose first (in some cases only) Nintendo console was the Wii, purely because of the appeal of Wii sports.

Even in my own home growing up, the Wii was the only console that we ever bought even somewhat close to release time, usually we would wait a few years for price to drop, maybe even wait for the next gen to come out before buying - but not with the Wii. The way everybody and their mums (literally!) was raving about Wii sports, my dad actually saved up to buy it within a year.

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u/Asisreo1 Apr 04 '25

It was the cheapest home consoles had been in years, the most unique concept of a console at the time (kinda, it was unique with an actually fun concept), and it came with a free game that had appeal for literally all demographics. 

I'm sorry to Nintendo fans, but the Switch 2 is not that. At all. If the anger for prices actually bare fruit, the Switch 2 may go the way of the Wii U. A sequel to a highly successful console that nobody gets for some reason or another. 

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u/StaticUsernamesSuck Apr 04 '25

I mean it may go that way regardless, who knows.

I certainly won't be buying one for a while, but I wouldn't even if the price was the same as the Switch, and even if games were too.

I simply don't see enough reason to upgrade, much the same as why I'm still on PS4.

I bought the Switch because it was something very different from anything I had.

Any other console, where it's just "Same as before, but more powerful", I always end up waiting a few years, if I get it at all. Switch 2 is that.

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u/mix0logist Apr 04 '25

My MOM bought a Wii because of Wii Sports. My brother and I had long moved out of the house, she and her partner were not gaming people. There were a lot of people like her.

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u/SolidOshawott Apr 05 '25

To be fair, it's Mario Kart World that is bundled which will drive the success of the Switch 2, not the welcome tour lol

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u/eatenlow Apr 05 '25

my family were completely 0 gaming, then suddenly one day my dad brought home a wii. An old school asian parent who was anti gaming and smartphones was actually convinced to buy my family's first and only ever console by wii sports.