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Despite the excitement over the Battlefront Classic Collection, the re-releases are a huge mess and a massive waste of time that has me returning to 2017's Battlefront II to get my Star Wars fix.
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In Australia absolutely no doubt it's too expensive. Australia, Canada, and the U.K. get shafted on prices. $80 games in Canada? Screw that
I agree, and I get it to some extent on Nintendo's part, but they need to change it immediately, or at least after they screw over their most loyal fans like they did with the 3DS (and I mean that not to make fans mad, but to show the reality Nintendo faces if the launch at $299, because sales will tank in the west after the scalper and most core fans are done buying).
The device itself being $300 is a start. It's overpriced plain and simple especially when you compare it to the Shield Tablet, which has a larger 8" inch screen, a 1080p screen, better cameras, and more. The advantages the Switch has are the rumored core components Tegra X1 vs K1, 4GB RAM vs 2GB, and 32GB storage instead of 16GB. The problem is the Shield tablet ranges from $149 - $199, and has been as low as $149 bundled with games and the Shield controller. That's $149 for the TABLET and CONTROLLER for basically the predecessor of the Switch yet Nintendo is charing 2x the price for an upgrade that's literally $60 more at most, and that's not including the fact that Nintendo is saving money by having a cheaper screen and camera(s). The Switch should be $250 at most bundled with 1 / 2 Switch. And while they're at it they should have a SKU without the dock all together.
The accessories are next. They're all just extremely overpriced, there's no way around it. These are the highest I've seen in a long time. Nintendo is trying to market the Joy-Cons as the new Wiimote, but they refuse to just let it go. It's great they put more effort into making the Switch controllers better, but it was a cost that's doing nothing but making the console more expensive and charging a ridiculous overhead for the controllers. The same with the dock and pro controller, both are overpriced especially the dock.
Games. Nintendo was already in the $60 brigade with the Wii U, but it's a completely different story for handheld, but higher prices also mean less gamers buying games who are multi-console owners. And by using cartridges that offers at least 16GB of storage it pretty much guarantees they're locked at $60.
Then you have to buy a $40 128GB or $80 200GB microSD.
It's just all adds up to be too much. $300 + $70 + $60 + $40 or $80 = $470 - $510 for the switch, pro controller, Zelda, and either a 128GB / 200GB SD.
If the rework the pricing, $250 + $50 + $60 + 40 or $80 = $400 - $440, a savings of $70 for the same deal as above, but also includes 1 / 2 Switch, or $350 - $390 if they make a SKU without the dock.
I do enjoy how people try to spin and defend NS's growing shortcomings
So when the Scorpio comes out and it's 499 you better not praise how perfectly priced it is but cry about 299.
Hmmmmmmm.......PS4 for $300 or Nintendo Switch for $300...........geeee I wonder what the best deal is????!!?? After the complete epic failure that was the Wii U why is ANYBODY hyped for the Wii U 2 aka switch???!!! It's practically almost the same fucking thing it's a little better version of the gamepad! You fucking dumbass nerds can have fun with Arms, 1 2 Switch, and splatoon 2!!! Lol And when is Mario coming out....o yeah in about 10 months! Good luck with the lack of games and no 3rd party games