Nintendo should absolutely get criticized for their pricing, but please use the actual numbers/facts:
The console is $450, or $500 for the console + mario kart world.
The $80 seems to only be for their biggest games, so I presume Mario kart, Zelda, Mario, etc. Their smaller games will probably be $60-$70.
You can absolutely play your switch games on the more powerful system for free. The paid things are basically DLC (for example: a new world in Kirby and the Forgotten Land) (except BoTW and ToTK, the extra feature more or less useless and adds no extra content)
Edit: Apparently the prices I listed were only for digital games, and physical ones will cost an extra $10. My bad.
From what I understand, upgrades that are purely performance enhancements like with Pokemon are free. The paid ones are upgrades that add new features like with Super Mario
Next console generation you'll have to pay for patches.
"Hey, did you beat Super Metroid 17, yet?"
"Nah, man, I'm saving up for the patch, I'm still on the 1.02 version, I got the wall bug, that makes progress impossible. They only fixed it in the 1.11 release."
I think that for the games without a Switch 2 Edition, you will get higher definition/frame rate (as long as they support it). Keep in mind that I have no direct source for this formation, just what I understood from the direct.
For games with a Switch 2 Edition, I don't know. ToTK for example will be less laggy on the Switch 2, but I don't know about getting higher definition/fps for free.
I don't really mean higher definitions and stuff.
But when I heard about the pay to upgrade pre owned games, i thought thst meant that you would need to pay for any upgrades the games get by nature of a better hardware
Yes, if you want the extra quality/frame rate, which the commenter I was responding to specifically said wasn't important to them, you need to either buy the Switch 2 Edition or get in for free from an Online membership.
The $80 seems to only be for their biggest games, so I presume Mario kart, Zelda, Mario, etc. Their smaller games will probably be $60-$70.
Stop making excuses for them already, and maybe you should too show the actual numbers if you criticize it.
It's not 80 for their "biggest games" only, it's for some games and it's 90 normally and 80 digitally and it's 80 normally and 70 digitally for others
There is absolutely no indication that there will be full Nintendo games for 60
Edit: I just learned that the $ are apparently 10 cheaper then the € prices so you are actually correct with the prices but not with the big/small games thing
Also a thing to keep in mind retailers normally don't accept cheaper digital version, because it makes them look bad, so maybe if they face problems/backlash from them the digital price could increase
Stop glazing bro. Even modern tripple A games don‘t cost more than 70$ on PC. You meanin to tell me that Pokemon Shit X costs more to produce than The Last of Us 2?
Beat me to it, thank you for defending my favorite multibillion company <3 I'm going to buy the 90$ dollar "physical" copies that have a download code inside, just to support them!
That last bit of paying for compatability is insanely missleading my guy, there is no paying for compatability, its upgrading a game to its switch 2 version, which isnt needed whatsoever.
It's crazy the spin people are putting on that one.
Sure it would have been awesome to make it free but I don't blame them at all for charging an extra because of development time they had to put into the enhanced graphics. It's also free with Nintendo online+expansion pass (at least for the Zelda games) which I think makes it fair, they've included some dlc in that bundle in the past
you actively dont, theyre compatible from the start, youre only paying for an update that lets them play in higher resolutions (and framerates too iirc) on the switch 2.
Don't forget the nearly proprietary SD card that next to no one will have, having to pay for a launch day orientation demo, the fact that you need internet and an account to transfer games and saves between devices and a paid membership to voice chat. The enshitification of nintendo is here.
You don't. You can pay to upgrade a few pre-owned games to have better graphics and some switch 2 exclusive functions (the Kirby game also includes a dlc), but otherwise you do not have to pay to play any pre-owned games on the switch 2.
No, they are making switch 2 upgraded releases for some games (think ps5 vs ps4 of the same game) if you have the switch 1 version you can pay for just the upgrade rather than buy them. You can play all your switch 1 games for free, you only pay for the specific upgrades that gices new content better framerate etc
Better performance is inherent to more power of the console and sny game will run smoother, the upgrades include software performance updates themselves to use the better hardware more than the game otherwise would
Why do you people always lie to justify being angry.
You are NOT paying for"comparability" you are paying for an upgrade. It will still work on the switch 2.
You can hate them all you want, but it's just pathetic you can't even be truthful about it
From the video, that's what I thought they were saying. I guess you can still play the games without the upgrade, but regardless, having to pay a ton extra for upgraded graphics is next level robbery
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$500 console, $80 games, and $20-$30 add ons to make preowned games "compatible". We are cooked