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On January 13 2017 17:19 Spaylz wrote:Show nested quote +On January 13 2017 17:14 Laurens wrote: How come it's so expensive in Sweden?
Here in Belgium I'm seeing €369 That's really expensive still. In France it looks like it's €330. Also expensive. Yeesh.
Meh. Again, you have to think of it as the successor to both 3DS and Wii U. Wii U launched at the same price as the Switch IIRC: 299 dollars.
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On January 13 2017 17:19 Yurie wrote:Show nested quote +On January 13 2017 17:14 Laurens wrote: How come it's so expensive in Sweden?
Here in Belgium I'm seeing €369 No clue, the stores have it at 4990 SEK. When 3990 is still more expensive then what you listed. Might just be old placeholder prices I guess. Yeah that's gotta be it. The Wii U is priced at ca 10 sek per usd. Maybe we'll see 3490, or 2990 if miracles actually happen.
In any case this thing looks pretty nice. Gut feeling says it'll do significantly better than the Wii U.
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They announced Xenoblade 2 as well. I loved Xenoblade Chronicles X on Wii U, was hoping for the sequel to that game instead. Maybe we'll get both.
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Again on Swedish pricing, I found this disclaimer on Webhallen "Priset är inte kommunicerat från leverantör. Preliminärt pris är satt endast för att möjliggöra förbokning och kommer justeras när priset är bekräftat från leverantör." = 4990 SEK is just a placeholder price.
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Mexico2170 Posts
So this holiday season the switch will have: Zelda, Skyrim, Splatoon, Mario, Mario Kart, Minecraft, NBA 2k and Fifa ( http://www.nintendo.com/games/game-guide?pv=true#filter/switch|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|featured|des|-|- ) and those are the big ones, teres stree fighter, lego and the Sonic games there too. I expect games from Ubisoft like the rumoured Mario&Rabbits and Just dance is also confirmed as a launch tittle though I don't care about it.
The pokemon Company has confirmed they are working on a switch game, could be the rumoured pokemon star (which if it is, then it's coming out this year too) or another one. Sincé they are merging the production of the handheld and home consoles the is no doubt the next gen pokemon game will be sold in this system.
Idk, but it seems good to me. It will be like buying a WiiU and getting a 3ds for free.
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I'm bit disappointed to be honest. Price for Europeans, all the accessories that are way too pricy (imo), paid online, poor launch titles except Zelda.. man. Zelda looks incredible, but it doesn't make me want to buy Switch solely for it at launch. Especially if I had Wii-U.
Games that they showed that are coming in the future looked great, so i'll happily wait.
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On January 13 2017 17:55 Grettin wrote: I'm bit disappointed to be honest. Price for Europeans, all the accessories that are way too pricy (imo), paid online, poor launch titles except Zelda.. man. Zelda looks incredible, but it doesn't make me want to buy Switch solely for it at launch. Especially if I had Wii-U.
Games that they showed that are coming in the future looked great, so i'll happily wait.
Yeah I own a Wii U, and I actually love playing on the Gamepad, so I'm buying the new zelda for Wii U.
I can probably pitch the switch as a christmas present next year, then I just have to pay for the new games. A strategy has formed.
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On January 13 2017 16:13 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On January 13 2017 15:43 BLinD-RawR wrote: aren't they planning on merging their handheld and home consoles with this? My guess is that it's going to be to the 3DS what the original DS was to the GBA. Testing the waters with a new idea. If it works well, it'll supplant the DS-line of handheld systems. If not, they'll go with plan B of making a new DS system.
Partially. The more I'm seeing & thinking about Nintendo's approach to the Switch, the more I think they've hit the right spots.
When it comes to Consoles, they're the party/family platform and they aren't competing for the yearly CoD release. And they haven't been since they sort of messed up the GameCube. We saw the result of that with the Wii vs WiiU. The Wii was one of the greatest gimmicks in Human History. (Especially when you add in the WiiFit.) The WiiU ended up being utterly dead in the water the instant it launched as Nintendo was actually just cutting into their own market. Oh, and a lot of people still just think the WiiU is the extra controller and not a console.
The Switch, rather than being a new console, is being clearly situated as an advanced Handheld. The brilliance of that is the computing power is now there so it sit between a console & a handheld. The next generation of the Switch should make this "play" pay off handsomely. Especially when you think about Nintendo's game library.
Nintendo sells their first-party games on story, mechanics and general enjoyment. They've not even attempted to "have it play Crysis" for over a decade, so no one is really buying their consoles to do that. But you can put roughly a better than WiiU experience for compute capacity into the device that's much smaller. Add in that it's also a ARM-based architecture, it means they can bridge the DS games over, fundamentally linking their Handheld & "Console" platforms together. This will be a much better strategy going forward, as it let's them leverage what Nintendo is best at (making handheld & low-graphics games) while still hitting the second biggest market segment.
This is still a risk for Nintendo, but once you've got, say, Mario Kart available, it'll make a lot more sense. Especially now that there are projectors everywhere. Though they really need a new F-Zero to really cement that.
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If the switch had 99 problems, price is definitely not one of them.
Theres never something expensive, just something without enough marketing to make people justify said price.
Price is just relative to the necessity of said product, if nintendo generates demand through marketing people will buy it no doubt
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Nah it's just overpriced like most Nintendo garbage
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On January 13 2017 18:24 Greenstripe wrote: Nah it's just overpriced like most Nintendo garbage Tell that to apple lol
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Northern Ireland22208 Posts
£279 in the uk is not awful, i feel like it could have been as low as £240 before the pound got so weak.
520EUR for sweden sounds painful tho
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Again, the 3DS retailed at $250 at launch, which, for a handheld, is more egregious than $300 for a home console. And near the end of its life-cycle it's got multiple versions at multiple price points, several at <$100.
Because Nintendo develops most of its flagship titles in-house, the fate of the console isn't determined at launch like other consoles that rely on 3rd party developers to build their game libraries. It's perfectly reasonable to wait for the console's game library to slowly build up as Nintendo releases flagship titles and the console slowly receives price cuts as it gets older.
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Im going to buy a switch, when? Depends on when i have to upgrade my phone lol
If i dont see any compelling options till the end of March i might take the chance and buy it right away, but doubt it since im desperate for an upgrade
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Okay iam interested in this console. I will assume 1. Its a homeconsole, right? 2. The console will not have a super high disturbance sound. Like the ps4(fu ps4)
So zelda is a nice game, hopefully it can deliver. A nice buy imo. But also mario kart in april? A new one. Really liked mario kart 64(its the best by far imo), it was fun to try and master the skill in just driving.
Also i saw a new bomberman. Now i dont have high hopes at all from that game, but you never know, maybe it delivers. Hmm ofcourse iam expecting good singleplayer games in the future such as rpgs and stuff. I want to mainly play single player games on the console.
Iam not to fond of ps4 actually, i dont think the console delivers on the games at all there.
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On January 13 2017 20:24 Foxxan wrote: Okay iam interested in this console. I will assume 1. Its a homeconsole, right?
Definitely marketed as an hybrid and more towards handheld. But yes, it's also a home console.
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On January 13 2017 18:55 Faruko wrote: Im going to buy a switch, when? Depends on when i have to upgrade my phone lol
If i dont see any compelling options till the end of March i might take the chance and buy it right away, but doubt it since im desperate for an upgrade
Of the announcement stream, I got the very distinct feeling of "you'll buy this at Christmas, look at the games you can get by then!" approach. Which is actually a good idea, since Nintendo always seems to have supply-crunch issues at launch.
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i still think Mario Kart 8 is the best overall, and the upgrades to Mario Kart 8 makes it quite the awesome deal
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I hate that Sony created the PS Vita and made it so incredible. And then just let it slowly die. Now the Switch is out and I'm thinking "Vita was more powerful and some of the games are amazingly well made. The Switch is the newest Vita, but with Zelda"
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I ask this in all honesty: am I the only one who isn't the least bit excited? I bought a Wii (sadly the biggest highlights that i recall are Wii sports bowling and paper mario), I bought a WiiU (mario 3d world and mario kart are the only games that stick out to me here), and both my kids have 3DSs (hate handhelds. no public transportation or any good time to use one. otherwise you look like a real creep sitting in a university class playing pokemon on a ds). I have been with Nintendo since the NES, but this Switch business doesn't do anything for me. I'm tired of the gimmicky controls and the whole conse/tablet thing. I guess most people would call it important progress in console development, but to me it feels forced like the 3D TV bullshit that never caught on.
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