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It’s pedantry really. No one thought they meant the devs just didn’t feel like optimizing it.


In other words, to take a shortcut to avoid expending resources at the cost of quality.





Which is not what the person I replied to was taking about…


That’s fine, all I’m saying is it’s not like it’s significantly more expensive or out of line price-wise historically.

More to the point, the article wasn’t talking about launch prices of consoles at all.


I mean, to pretend the Switch 2 is identical to the Switch 1 is pretty ridiculous.


I mean, historically it seems pretty in-line with Nintendo releases, adjusted for inflation:

  • NES: $582
  • SNES: $480
  • N64: $410
  • GCN: $362
  • Wii: $399
  • WiiU: $419
  • Switch 1: $396
  • Switch 2: $449

It’s only ~$50 more than the Switch 1, and they just raised the price of the Switch 1 by $50.



Sorry, I read it backwards – we agree, most Linux distributions do support Secure Boot



And if we take this as an actual attempt at a better handheld experience, then this is just further proof that competition breeds better products for consumers.


I can’t believe you’ve been doing this for over a year already.