The article does not get into detail, but I assume Stonemaier Games is going to argue that the President does not have the power to impose this type of tariff. The company is probably hoping that the judge will stay the tariff until the case can be argued. If this only buys the company enough time to refill their US warehouse without paying a tariff, they could come out ahead.
Note, that data is from April 8th, which is before the 90 day tariff pause was announced.
From what my friends working in retail have told me, the trend is (temporarily) reversed. Every freight container going to the US is getting booked solid at inflated rates as brands try to bring in merchandise from non-Chinese factories into the US in case the tariffs resume.
Nintendo is not going to do extensive QA testing for every single Switch game (especially not every third party shovelware game which might have had errors running on a regular Switch). I assume they ran every automated test they had handy and had someone spend X hours poking around the game to try to find issues.
The more interesting question would be how will games be fixed? Are they patching the game to fix the issue or are they patching the Switch 2 firmware to match Switch behavior? The more bugs they fix with the later approach the less important it is to exhaustively test every single game.
What confusion? If a box says “Switch” on it, it will run on the Switch and the Switch 2.
If the box says “Switch 2”, it will run on the Switch 2 but not the original Switch.
There are some games that are available for both systems, so make sure to check the system name when buying the game. It has been the same in previous console generations and in consoles from other manufacturers.
The only issues that I foresee are if the eShop makes it hard to understand what system you are buying the game for and if the eShop makes it hard to change the version I am buying.
Those Biden dollar prices, though. Will other console makers stay at their current prices or will they raise prices as US stock starts to run out.
The license carts are worse than physical cartridges but better than buying digital. At least you can give them to a friend or sell them (while the software server is still active).
The entire article has a tone of “it is exactly as we expected it to be”. Good to have a journalist say that Nintendo was not covering up some horrible, obvious flaw.
There is a reason that most games are listed as “capable of starting, more testing required”. It should not be too hard to set up automation that loads a game on to the Switch 2, launches it, and checks that it did not crash within 30 seconds.
Nintendo US website. Mario Kart has an MSRP of $79.99. Donkey Kong has an MSRP of $69.99.
For me, it depends on how much the upgrade packs add. If you frame it as “We will be releasing select Switch titles as enhanced editions on the Switch 2. If you already have the Switch version, you can buy the enhanced edition at a discount by getting it as an Upgrade Pack.”
Doesn’t PlayStation have a similar program?
At $500, the system would cost as much as a PlayStation 5 or XBox Series X and Nintendo would not be able to sell it as a low cost alternative. It would also be a 60% price increase over the previous generation. I would expect $400 and hope for $350.
I am ready for the battery life to keep getting worse, especially at the lower end of the range (so from 2.5-6.5 down to 2-6).
No graphics or performance improvement for old games running on the Switch 2 unless the publisher puts out a Switch 2 specific patch. Nintendo would rather have ugly games that work as expected rather than pretty games that introduce new bugs.
Sony sells (launch) systems at a loss, so they want people to stay on PS4. Nintendo makes a profit on systems, so they want to get as much demand as possible for launch systems, to attract third parties to the install base. They don’t mind selling 2 million copies this month and the other 98 million over the next 5 years.
It would be very short sighted of Nintendo to announce their new system and say that it is going on sale in 7 days. For one thing, it does not give any time for people to budget or save up for the purchase.
I have heard that this is in addition to the old system, not a replacement.
Based only on the trailer, I am guessing it is Animal Crossing but with your friends likeness instead of your friends’ fursonas.
Is this and Super Smash Bros the only two Mii games for the system? Was Mii Fighter even in Smash Switch?
I assume that the PS5 Pro is great for its target audience: people who care about getting the best possible graphics on a console. They bought it, they tried it, they loved it, and they praised it. The issue with the PS5 Pro is that not everyone fits into that niche. For people who are not playing on giant 4K TVs, what is the benefit? What does it provide that a regular PS5 (or even a PS4) does not? Sony has not provided an answer, from what I have seen.
I am sure they will. At least one third party accessory vendor has leaked that they are manufacturing a Switch 2 Mouse Grip (which is how the joycon mouse rumor started in the first place).
The telling thing is that Nintendo is not planning to reduce the price of the Switch. Hopefully they will drop the price when the Switch 2 comes out, or we may have different definitions of “affordable”.
The Switch currently sells for $300 and the OLED. In order to keep selling, those systems need to be significantly cheaper than the backwards compatible Switch 2, which would mean that the Switch 2 has to be sold for at least $400 (if not $450).
Is anyone (other than maybe Nintendo) setting up a wait list for buying systems as they restock? I would not mind getting at the back of that line.
There aren’t any release window games I want, but I may want one by the holidays or next year, once more games are released.