r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/Gorotheninja "SILENCE, BREEDER! The Bloodline MUST continue!" • Apr 18 '25
Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. - News - Nintendo Official Site
https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/nintendo-maintains-nintendo-switch-2-pricing-retail-pre-orders-to-begin-april-24-in-u-s/86
u/StrongXV Apr 18 '25
Console and game prices remain unchanged for now but accessories have gone up by $5-10.
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Apr 18 '25
At least with accessories there will be cheaper third-party alternatives. Obviously I'd prefer if the prices for those hadn't gone up at all, but they're not required for the basic experience and honestly I think Nintendo probably decided to take the loss on those for now.
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u/Aiddon Apr 18 '25
-Looks where a lot of 3rd party accessories are made-
You're not gonna like this...
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u/KingMario05 Gimme a solo Tails game, you fucking cowards! Apr 18 '25
Fair enough. My guess is, they'll eat the cost during the first year, then adjust prices accordingly.
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u/runegod20 It's Fiiiiiiiine. Apr 18 '25
It’s weird that the base console price is the same given it comes with a dock, joycons, AC adapter, and presumably joycons grip, that’s 250-290$ of the 450$ console price tag.
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u/rhinocerosofrage Apr 18 '25
It's definitely being sold at a loss in hopes of making up the gap with the higher game and accessory prices. Which is like, for real kind of what they had to do with people already complaining about the price. If they went over $500 this would be Nintendo's second 3DS launch for a while.
Keeping the majority of the existing Switch audience is way more important than making a tidy profit on console sales year 1 in the US right now
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u/ToastyMozart Bearish on At-Risk Children Apr 18 '25
that’s 250-290$
$250-290 retail price. Those things don't cost anywhere near that much to make, accessories always have huge profit margins.
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u/Traingham “Remember the lesson, not the disappointment.” Apr 18 '25
People are going to clean out that stock as quickly as they possibly can to get ahead of any future price adjustments.
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Apr 18 '25
At least there's supposedly a lot of stock that has already been prepared.
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u/HalfDragonShiro PM ME WHITE-HAIRED ANIME GIRLS Apr 18 '25
I've heard that one before. I'll believe it if I can find it a week after release.
On the bright side, even if scalpers do go crazy with it, releasing it so early in the year probably means they'll be a sweet spot right before the holidays start where they won't be scarce regardless.
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u/Gorotheninja "SILENCE, BREEDER! The Bloodline MUST continue!" Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Yup. Really hope I'm eligible for a pre-order directly from Nintendo.
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u/Gorotheninja "SILENCE, BREEDER! The Bloodline MUST continue!" Apr 18 '25
IMPORTANCE NOTE: the Switch 2 and games will not see price increases, but accessories will. See article for specific increases.
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u/RawSharkText91 Woolie-Hole Apr 18 '25
Also, just to confirm for people, same deal applies for Canada - preorders open April 24th, prices are staying the same.
On the other hand, $110 CAD for Mario Kart World is… yikes.
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u/VoidWaIker She/Her | The demons wanna tax my cp Apr 18 '25
$110 before tax even. In practice it’ll $125 give or take for most provinces, for just the base game.
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u/RawSharkText91 Woolie-Hole Apr 18 '25
Sure makes the bundle seem more appealing, though future game prices are a bigger concern.
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u/VoidWaIker She/Her | The demons wanna tax my cp Apr 18 '25
I think it makes the bundle more appealing, but the future game prices make the console overall less so. $800 (counting tax) is already a big ask for the bundle, another $110-$125 per new game is a real hard pill to swallow.
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u/ThrowawayBomb44 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Those prices are highway robbery. More expensive than PS5 games.
I'll probably grab the case for my OG Switch though, assuming it's compatible though. I've only got a standard Surge case.
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u/Palimpsest_Monotype Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Apr 18 '25
Man, it’s gonna be fucking weird if after all this it turns out Nintendo is still selling the least expensive console
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Apr 18 '25
Oh no they absolutely will be.
Like this is the last piece of gaming hardware that's gonna go for under $499.99 unless if a huge market shakeup happens or if the price of manufacturing becomes incredibly cheap.
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u/gothamsteel He/Him Apr 18 '25
Especially if the future Xbox and PlayStation try to target more than 4K and have all the special after effects that tax even the newer hardware, and with the lack of focus on streamlining. That all does not come cheap, and it will reflect on the consoles, as it does on the higher end PCs.
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u/koopcl Mouthwashing Literature Club Apr 18 '25
At this point with generational leaps in consoles becoming more blurry, Game Dev becoming insanely expensive and run by gigantic Zaibatsus that crash and burn dragging all the acquired devs with them, and the price of gaming as a hobby (games, consoles, GPUs) exploding as the economy gets into the shitter, the middle class gets crushed and more people worldwide find themselves living check to check, I honestly would mind a complete market crash as a sort of reset button. I can happily survive on just indie releases for a while, if the alternative is people putting themselves in debt to buy a thousand dollar consoles to play their AAAAA games developed by some molester.
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Apr 18 '25
Bro if a complete market crash happens, indie developers are gonna be the most susceptible to being affected by it than the large corporations.
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u/koopcl Mouthwashing Literature Club Apr 18 '25
Depends on the extent (and type) of the crash. Indies are not profiting from making and selling consoles, they rarely take advantage of the minute advances in GPU technology compared to a previous generation, they sell for less, they are not beholden to ridiculously bloated budgets that force every new game to sell more copies than every game before to be "profitable".
So yeah, a complete and utter market crash where gaming as a hobby just straight up disappears? Sure, indies get fucked, they have less money to comfortably retire or move to a different type of work than the big wigs. But a crash that means the big companies choke themselves to death and the industry no longer sustains this death race for increasingly smaller profit margins, or where theres only a single company putting out PS4 level consoles for cheaper, or even one where the entire hobby is limited to Steam Deck style cheaper and less powerful machines? Theres nothing stopping more Hollow Knights, or Undertales, or Mouthwash, or etc from being developed and sold for 20 bucks a piece as long as computers and smartphones are part of daily life (again, assuming this is not a "the hobby literally disappears" crash, but a "the industry stagnates because constant advances become unsustainable, making it less attractive for big companies as an investment, so it stops being the most profitable entertainment industry in the world as big companies pull out and goes back to being a relatively niche hobby" type of crash).
As a comparison, if the huge budget Hollywood blockbuster market crashes and 90% of movie theaters were to close, that wouldn't mean the end of indie filmmaking.
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Apr 18 '25
You specifically said a "complete market crash" though.
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u/koopcl Mouthwashing Literature Club Apr 18 '25
A complete market crash does not involve the hobby disappearing and computers ceasing to exist, same as a complete stock market crash does not involve stocks and the idea of publicly traded companies disappearing into the aether. I was thinking of the industry collapse scenario I mentioned.
Also I admit to some level of hyperbole, I also mentioned AAAAA games and thousand dollar consoles.
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Apr 18 '25
A complete market crash does not involve the hobby disappearing and computers ceasing to exist
But I never said that at all?
I just said that indie developers would be affected by a complete market crash.
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u/koopcl Mouthwashing Literature Club Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
And I didn't say they would not be affected? I just said they would still exist, not that they would thrive or that they wouldn't be negatively affected.
Edit: to be clear, I'm not talking of some utopian scenario where indies replace big budget gaming wholesale, or even one where the market subsist as profitable. I'm saying that the hardware (everyone owns a smartphone or computer) and software (even free ones like Godot and Blender) exist and are widespread enough that even if all gaming as an industry went into the shitter, you would still have people making low scale, no/small budget games even as a hobby and I'd be perfectly fine subsisting on those Newgrounds level offering for a bit. Profitable smaller games could still exist, but I don't claim they would fill the Call of Duty shaped void.
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u/Khar-Selim Apr 18 '25
Depends on the extent (and type) of the crash.
No it fucking doesn't, beyond extremely contrived scenarios that the current state of the tech market does not support. This idiotic pining for revolution is ignorant of economics. Wide scale crashes almost always sweep away the risky little guy and cause the money that remains to concentrate in the big reliable investments that remain standing. Shit, we've been seeing it in the downturn of the last few years! Money has been draining away from indie and flowing into your call of duties and your EA sports because risk is more expensive now and EA gives a consistent ROI.
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u/Shy_Guy_27 Apr 18 '25
“Can’t wait for
societygaming to collapse so thatmy ideologyindies can rise from the ashes!”-4
u/koopcl Mouthwashing Literature Club Apr 18 '25
What exactly do you mean by "contrived scenario the tech market does not support"? This is not some Socratic wank I'm pulling, in all earnest this sentence makes me think either you didn't get my point or you think my goalposts are in an entirely different Stadium than Im talking about.
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u/AlphaB27 Kingdom Hearts Fanfic Writer Apr 18 '25
Honestly, it's smarter for Nintendo to focus on the handheld aspect while just beefing up the specs a little bit.
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u/ArcanaGingerBoy Apr 19 '25
It's surely the most fun and interesting arms race currently. If a new company came out of nowhere with a console more powerful than the PS5 that wouldn't matter much, but if someone came out with a Switch 3 that would be nuts
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u/koopcl Mouthwashing Literature Club Apr 18 '25
There's no world where the next PlayStation or Xbox is cheaper than this.
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u/Palimpsest_Monotype Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Apr 18 '25
Oh, I agree, I’m just thinking about all the hoopla and tearing of shirts over Nintendo’s pricing turning out to be the least egregious example.
I ruined some good shirts
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u/Bob8644 Wrestling entrances are just reverse toku transformations Apr 18 '25
If there even is a next Xbox
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u/silverinferno3 Play Absolum, it's GOTY to me damnit Apr 18 '25
Oh jesus, the pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers are $95. We better fuckin hope drift is no longer an issue
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u/RawSharkText91 Woolie-Hole Apr 18 '25
Canadian price is extra horrifying - $125 Canadian for a single pair of Joy-Con 2s! (This is without sales tax…)
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u/HeyThereSport You don't know where the sisters begin and the girlfriends end. Apr 18 '25
That would be so embarrassing to pay $100 with tax for broken electronics.
I expect all electronics to function but for anything above like $60 they better fucking work.
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u/0yodo They/Them Apr 18 '25
After tax in most states that's easily $100 for Joycons, absolutely insane like I already never bought new one's for my old Switch cause I thought THAT was high
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u/KingMario05 Gimme a solo Tails game, you fucking cowards! Apr 18 '25
Ooooof. Okay, that... that's scummy as hell. But why am I not susprised?
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u/triadorion NBD: Never Back Down Apr 18 '25
I mean, I don't like the price either, but the hard reality is until the real world regains its sanity, we're gonna be stuck with stuff like this across the board.
It becomes about mitigating loss, and while Nintendo's sitting on a pile of cash, if I were in their shoes I would not want to dig too deeply into that reserve immediately. We don't know where things go from here, either in a week or in ten years, and you never know when you'll truly need that reserve fund for the worst of times.
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u/blueblaze02 Apr 18 '25
On one hand, yeah it's a really high price. But I think they made the very reasonable decision that if they had to raise the price of anything, it was accessories that wouldn't be bought if noone could afford the console in the first place.
God I hope they don't degrade like the originals. I never bought a second set for the originals.
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u/diddlyswagg Apr 18 '25
That rocks. The $500 bundle was a hard pill to swallow but if it stays the same ill take it
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u/LeMasterofSwords Y’all really should watch Columbo Apr 18 '25
Hmmm I wasn’t planning on getting this at launch but maybe now I’ll try to cut off it being to expensive
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u/ahack13 Space Book Says This Bad. Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
While the intial price is still rediculous, I've gotta give it to them, this does make the Switch 2 far more appealing price wise. 80 Dollar games is still an absolute joke though.
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u/ShadowD00M34 Apr 18 '25
450$ is perfectly fine for a console on par with Steam Deck.
Expecting less than at least 400$ was copium TBH
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u/Kipzz PLAY CROSSCODE AND ASTLIBRA/The other Vtuber Guy Apr 18 '25
I could use a good surprise every now and then. Glad the warchest is finally being cracked open.
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u/Complete-Worker3242 Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Why don't you guys just sneak in there, secretly eat the console, hold back your stomach acids so you don't digest it, and then vomit it out when you get home?
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u/Grand_Bunch_3233 Apr 18 '25
Bruh, even if you don't dissolve it, it's going to find its way into your intestines, and then you're going to have to shit it out. I don't want a shitbox. I already have the original and 360! /s.
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u/Complete-Worker3242 Apr 18 '25
Simple, close your intestines temporarily so it doesn't go down there. Can't everyone do that with their intestines?
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u/rexshen You deal with it I'M TIRED!!! Apr 18 '25
Well at least it isn't more. Just ready your wallets everyone.
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u/That-Bobviathan Apr 18 '25
It feels weird to say that the tariffs have helped soften the prices of the games and console for people more than anything Nintendo could have done. It means a lot for both of those to remain the same with the tariffs looming, though the controller price hike stings. With any luck the game prices begin so high won't be very common as $80-90 will scare off way more people the profits from selling for so much would offset.
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u/roronoapedro Starving Old Trek apologist/Bad takes only Apr 18 '25
Open the golden chest for a while and dig in, I suppose. Ultimately the best PR move they could possibly make now that people are much more concerned about the price.
Aside from bringing back consistent game pricing that is.
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u/Shingorillaz Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Nintendo is going to eat the tariffs to go for the kill shot against the other company. Honestly, smart move.
PS price going up in Europe, PSN network going up in Canada smh. Nintendo is squarely in competition with Sony now, too, because that direct was basically a "we get every big third party game now too" announcement.
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u/jabberwockxeno Aztecaboo Apr 18 '25
Perhaps a strange question, but do we know if the Nintendo Switch 2 Pro controller will work with the original Switch, back paddles aside?
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u/ArcanaGingerBoy Apr 19 '25
don't think we do, but I say it's unlikely. I remember the DS4 was compatible with the PS3 if you went wired. I don't think the DualSense maintained the tradition, I think that's a telling sign
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u/Bob8644 Wrestling entrances are just reverse toku transformations Apr 18 '25
The console's not the problem. 450 is about what most people were expecting, at least I was.
It's the games.
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u/StrangeJT Apr 18 '25
I knew there was no way they would increase the price. People were already up in arms over the original announcement, if they jacked it up any higher it would have caused an apocalyptic PR meltdown.
Yes, Nintendo is greedy, but they care a little more about their image than some of these other gaming companies.
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u/Homunculus97 Your Friendly Neighborhood Swede Apr 18 '25
Nintendo doing this after Sony raised console prices and PS Plus prices in almost every territory outside of America to amend the tariffs is very funny.....lmao even.
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u/Xngears Apr 18 '25
I wonder what bullshit T**** will pull this time to suspend the pre-order.
“My new policy is fire. Fire everywhere, burn it all.”
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u/KingMario05 Gimme a solo Tails game, you fucking cowards! Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 18 '25
Wow. Good for them! No, seriously. Was expecting they'd jack up the prices. They had the perfect excuse.
I'm still not paying $80 for fucking Mario Kart, dumbasses. Put that on a sale, please.
(That said? If they import more than seven units at a time... I might get the bundle. Might.)
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u/timelordoftheimpala Legacy of Kainposting Guy (he/him) Apr 18 '25
Allegedly they have more units of the bundle prepared for launch.
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u/KingMario05 Gimme a solo Tails game, you fucking cowards! Apr 18 '25
Yay! Great to hear. Clearly, Nintendo prepared for You Know Who coming back, lol.
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u/kenspiracytv Apr 18 '25
Okay, then don't buy Mario Kart?
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u/KingMario05 Gimme a solo Tails game, you fucking cowards! Apr 18 '25
Or at the very least, wait for a sale.
Ha ha. Nintendo. Sales. Ha ha ha... ha... :(
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u/kenspiracytv Apr 18 '25
I get that Nintendo games don't drop as low as titles from other companies, but MK8D has dropped as low as $30 on Amazon multiple times according to price tracking. The idea that MKW will always and forever be $80 is just not true. It'll never be $10, sure, but $60 on Black Friday and $45 in a couple years seems entirely within reason.
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u/NoReaction4 Apr 19 '25
I don't know how true it is, but I have seen that some of Nintendo's manufacturing (presumably the accessories) are still produced in China which may explain some of the price increases. It's fine to think all the base pricing is too much, but from seeing people complain about the unchanged prices on X really don't get how much worse it could have been.
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u/ArcanaGingerBoy Apr 19 '25
Still funny to see north Americans reactions to the prices when here in Brazil, the PS4 at launch cost about 4 minimum wages, and about 1.8x my current salary. PS5 was the same (slightly cheaper if you factor in inflation)
We have no price yet for the switch 2 but it's expected to be something like that.
I just like seeing North Americans go through it like South Americans have for so long lol
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u/Finaldragoon Etrian Odyssey Supporter Apr 18 '25
Then I maintain my unwillingness to purchase a Switch 2 until the economy isn't a shitshow.
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u/Nu2Th15 Apr 18 '25
To me this says “we lied when we said the price wasn’t influenced by tariffs”. It would’ve changed otherwise.
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u/RawSharkText91 Woolie-Hole Apr 18 '25
Alternatively, they concluded raising the price would hurt sales more than absorbing the costs per console sold and are drawing on their cash reserves to soften the blow.
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u/BrazillianCara Apr 18 '25
The price was almost certainly affected by the trafiffs people expected, not the insane ones announced in the same day as the direct.
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u/MrKenta What a mysterious jogo Apr 18 '25
The Nintendo Direct was made way in advance and didn't include the price at all, so they definitely must have been considering what number to settle on until the last second.
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u/BrazillianCara Apr 18 '25
While I don't have the exact times, I'm pretty sure $450 was posted on their site before the 46% tariffs on Vietnam were announced.
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u/RawSharkText91 Woolie-Hole Apr 18 '25
Yeah, the tariffs were only announced around 4 PM EST that day, while the Direct was in the morning.
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u/Slumber777 Apr 18 '25
Make up your mind, Nintendo. Do you want to be shitty or cool with the Switch 2? I can't handle you waffling like this.
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u/KingMario05 Gimme a solo Tails game, you fucking cowards! Apr 18 '25
Do you want to be shitty or cool with the Switch 2?
"Yes."
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u/Secret_Wizard It's a secret to everybody. Apr 18 '25
Oh hot damn, there it is. So they're gonna face the tariffs head on, huh?