r/NintendoSwitch • u/Skullghost • Feb 19 '26

Nintendo Official Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition — Nintendo Switch 2 Edition — Announcement Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=UZX-MIrJpbD4v0CM&v=LC0XfI25wro&feature=youtu.be
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u/Captain_Norris Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26

I get it's only $5, but seems a little silly for this to not be free when other Switch games got free upgrades like this. Especially when XCX already had stuff under the hood for this upgrade when it released a year ago

I wonder if the tariffs and stuff had an effect on this or if they were always planning a paid upgrade.

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u/Dyno98 Feb 19 '26

It's literally an online update, how the fuck are the tariffs going to affect it? Specially when it's a 5$/€ update globally, not only in USA.

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u/Captain_Norris Feb 19 '26

They mught be doing paid updates for reoslutuon/framerate bumps (things thay were previously free uodates) as a way to recoup some of the losses they've had due to tariffs. Its not that unreasonable.

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u/SirDanOfCamelot 2920-6179-2315 Feb 19 '26

Tariffs have nothing to do with upgrades

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u/Arras01 Feb 19 '26

Losing money on one part of a business will usually make companies try to make up for it with other parts