If you are familiar with Hades’ “God mode” option, or just their persistent level up currency between runs, I think this is the approach they are taking with Saros. They want Returnal and any potential direct Returnal sequels to maintain their difficulty and challenge, but they mentioned in their briefing they you get more and more powerful each run in Saros. They must have internal metrics on this and they have to know that many people have never finished the game. Hell, I didn’t for a long time and recently got up to just before beating Biome 6 myself (still trying to make the final push). I expect Saros to be difficult but also give players progression to ultimately finished the game compared to Returnal.

It might be possible. Nintendo says most usb-c cameras will work. There is a USB camera test section in system settings. So it all depends on how the USB-A ports are configured

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/accessories/camera/

Yeah, some are speculating it’s only $5-10 which honestly is even more of a reason it should be free.

Exactly, I don’t really see who is going to use the camera while undocked. They should have put a camera in the console and then have it peak over the top of the dock to work while docked.

I won’t be getting the camera at all tbh, but this is really cute.

Side note, kinda an oversight that they show the camera plugging into the top USB c port while docked. Hopefully the camera ships with a usbC to usbA adapter so it can be plugged into the dock.

For Switch: $300 from 2017 is $388 today.

For WiiU: $300 from 2012 is $415 today.

Don’t get me wrong though, the economic outlook today is bleak, I don’t disagree. And it seems a lot of people think it’s too expensive and it is rightfully theirs to believe so. We all need to make the best financial decisions for ourselves. At the end of the day this is a luxury product.

Ultimately I think price will be the subject of the conversation up until and after release, and only one thing will change the conversation and that is if the games are good. If Mario Kart World and DK Bananza knock it out of the park, people will not be talking about price, they will be talking about how much you need to play these games.

Very true. No disagreeing there. I just put the info for context

Nintendo consoles for me are just for playing Nintendo games. So it’s all about the exclusives. For 3rd party I have so many other places to play.

I never actually picked it up. So I might have to when I get a Switch2.

Very true. So this launch is actually pretty on par with switch 1.

With the mouse controls I am really wondering why we didn’t see even a tease of Splatoon 4.

I think with Nintendo’s art style 4k is possible. It won’t have photo realistic 4k

Yo…Ring Fit will work? Hell yeah

Also being able to use Joycon1 with any game is great.

$250 in 2006 is equivalent to about $400 today.

It’s odd because Donkey Kong is $69.99 and the MK console bundle gets you $30 off. My guess is that they are pushing the MK bundle hard because $450 is probably close to break even or loss leader for them. And going $530 was too high for the sticker price. Those that buy later will likely also get MK outside the bundle and then they are in the green. I bet the MK attach rate is going to be insane.

I also think the $10 more for physical versions is solely to push consumers to digital only. Also it frames the $80 price point as being “$10 cheaper” rather than “$10 more than normal”

I mean it’s subjective. But I get your point.

Yeah, it’s basically Mario Kart World and then Donkey Kong Bananza shortly thereafter.

As a reminder Switch 1 had the following first party titles in its launch window:

• BOTW
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• 1-2-Switch (meh)
• Snipperclips (meh)
• ARMS (meh)
• Splatoon 2

So knowing how those games went, and excluding the meh games. Switch 2 is really only missing 1 first party like Splatoon.

Also Metroid Prime 4 is in the middle space of being a crossover title.

Hate to break it yo you. Mario Kart MSRP is $79.99

That’s a bunch of bull. I deliberatly do not share analytics whenever given the option to opt-out.

Console only is $449.99 USD. Mario Kart Console bundle is $499.99. See the new pinned post in this community to register to purchase.