Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. - News - Nintendo Official Site
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Retail pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 will begin on April 24, 2025. At launch, the price for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will remain as announced on April 2 at $449.99, and the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle will remain as announced…

Prices for accessories will be increasing to compensate for tariffs.

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Still gonna skip this and hope for a 3DS-like price drop around the holidays. I’m really hoping Nintendo misses their sales targets big time because fuck these prices.

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Personally, I’m at the point of “fuck walled garden ecosystems”, not to mention all the legal work they’re doing to ruin video games.

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Yep, the switch was a great idea to bridge console and handheld. Once the technology is out and the steam deck is open, without subscription, without lock down, allowing all past purchases, etc. ; the console is dead.

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Agree. Personally I like having something portable, so I’ve always complemented my PC with a Nintendo handheld. Thankfully, PCs can now be handhelds too, even including an open operating system.

The only time I even booted my Switch after getting the Steam Deck was to rip all my games and saves from there.

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Not going to happen. US customers are lucky that Nintendo won’t increase the console price.

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Yeah, they’re going to sell out immediately and stock is going to be scarce even if they did increase the price.

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Grow up

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You’re lucky they’re selling it to you at all.

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I’m so unimpressed with their release lineup as well. They’ve just done the same thing they always do, and made a minority improved Mario Cart and a lackluster Pokémon game. Or, and a tutorial, don’t forget that.

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I’m normally at least moderately excited for nintendo’s release lineup. This time, though… it’s neat I guess?

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If there a good enough games out for it, then I might consider getting one when the budget version gets released.

But, we will see not if there is stick drift and stuff like that.

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Very unlikely that they even could drop the price with the tariff situation.

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