Not All Nintendo Switch 2 Games Are Expensive – Here’s the Pricing Breakdown

The pricing of Nintendo Switch 2 games has become a topic of concern for fans, but not all titles are expensive. Here's the breakdown.

[Profchaos]

Weirdly enough Street fighter 6 is half the cost of Mario kart

[darthv72]

...and that one is a key card game.

[Profchaos]

I didn't notice I guess I assumed it would be on a cart instead of a key in the box

[JEECE]

Well, if Switch 2 has any hope of competing with Steam Deck to be a catalog system (i.e. a system people buy as a portable/handheld way to play a lot of older games they have already played), older games will have to be cheaper. On Steam Deck basically everyone who has done any PC gaming in the last 18 years already has a built in library (and frequent opportunities to get games for cheap), so it will be hard to compete with that if older games launch at $60-90 on Switch 2.

[Sitdown]

I think you are completing missing the point of Nintendo. Their systems are the only way to correctly play their exclusives...they not trying to compete with Steam Deck.

[JEECE]

@Sitdown

Obviously that is the main point, yes. I merely bring up that comparison because, ever since the Switch 2 has been even rumored, people have been preemptively comparing it to the Steam Deck, and after the announcement yesterday, people have been hyping its third-party support.

Obviously the absolute Nintendo hardcore will buy it for Nintendo games, without caring about old third-party stuff. But as we learned with Wii U, that group alone can't make a system a success; it has to appeal to other people too. All I'm saying is that to appeal to the specific group I'm talking about, old third-party games need to be cheap. That's it.

[Profchaos]

Different audiences really I don't think they are out there trying to take anybody away from PC gaming.

About 1 month ago it was revealed that the steam deck sales are at 4 million roughly with the entire portable PC market sitting at 6

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Portable PC's have enough of a tough time breaking away from the hard core gamer image in my view and don't represent simplicity enough for a family to convert to steam as a primary console.

[Neonridr]

Most people are buying a Switch 2 to play Switch 2 games, or their existing library of Switch 1 games.

How does the Steam Deck compete when it can't play Mario Kart or Donkey Kong?

[Cacabunga]

It’s Nintendo vs 3rd party pricing, which we know has been around for many gens.
Nintendo is so greedy.. botw which was a switch launch title costs the same as botw. They never cut their prices

[thorstein]

Devil's advocate: Nintendo also pays their employees and doesn't lay them off.

[Alos88]

@thorstein Not really related. Nintendo being good in some ways doesn't excuse their flaws in others.

[gold_drake]

you better believe that first party gamesz ala Mario and zelda and smash are gonna be expensive asf.

why? cause nintendo doesnt dictate third party prices.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Sucks for me though, because I only buy first party games for Nintendo consoles, everything else is PC where possible.

[gold_drake]

i think it sucks for all of us actually ha

[Knushwood Butt]

'Furthermore, Nintendo Switch 2 Editions of original Switch titles that add new content will also cost 79.99 US Dollars.'

'Additionally, Nintendo Switch 2 Editions of original Switch titles that don’t add any new content and only bring graphical and performance upgrades will also cost 69.99 US Dollars.'

[Eonjay]

Isn't there a cheaper upgrade path if you already own the game on Switch?

[VersusDMC]

Switch 2 versions that have extra dlc will probably have a 20 dollar upgrade path and the others are 10.

Some or all upgrade paths will be free if you have NSO+expansion pack.

[originaljohn]

There will also be free upgrades to games for stuff like Gamechat and GameShare

[Neonridr]

yes, just like if you owned a PS4 title and wanted to upgrade to the PS5 version.

[Cellblock11]

Just becasue some aren't that doesn't excuse the ones that are.

[badboyz09]

I'm gonna get it to you when Borderlands drops

[Rainbowcookie]

Exactly how socialism manipulation works. Taxes are 10% ...Right we want to raise taxes to 20% . The keep it secret and tell everybody they want to raise taxes to 30% ...everybody's angry. Alright we budge we will only raise taxes to 20%. The $80 Mk game lets the expensive 2024 $70 look cheap

[jznrpg]

That’s how price manipulation works but I’m not sure what that has to do with socialism

[UnbreakableAlex]

Inflation is high because of your idiot president you stupid dumbfuck.

[fsfsxii]

Lmao go Trump, you sad pathetic individual.

[Rainbowcookie]

Not from the states 🙂 have I triggered the 6 year old you ?

[anast]

Zelda 1 is only 49.99...jk but yeah ...