Our Big Nintendo Switch 2 Interview with Nintendo of America's Bill Trinen

IGN interviewed Nintendo of America's Bill Trinen to discuss Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, the decision to price Switch 2 at $450 and Mario Kart at $80, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour as a paid digital product rather than a pack-in game, and a lot more.

[Relientk77]

The Switch 2 tutorial game Welcome Tour being anything but free is a joke and greed. Apparently, it costs $9.99.

[_SilverHawk_]

Everything about the switch 2 is bad. Overpriced portable system that's the same price as a ps5 that is way better in basically every way except being portable. Nintendo games are of less quality and technologically inferior to a lot of games on ps5 Xbox and pc so why would it even cost the same price and even worst cost more money. A lot of switch 2 versions of switch 1 games costs more money even though it's just the hardware itself playing the game in better resolution and higher fps. Switch 2 online will cost more and I always thought the Nintendo online should be free. Fanboys kept making excuses saying it's not that expensive and because of these same fanatics Nintendo wants to overcharge for everything. I see game prices going up soon because fanatics keep making excuses and justifying buying inferior products at a premium price. Nintendo normally succeeds by having a very affordable system and games.

[Babadook7]

The specs are pretty awesome I'd say, for a handheld / hybrid.

[Lexreborn2]

I find it interesting that more or less they are saying switch 2 is either really worth 400 and the 80 game is what bumps it to the 500 msrp. Or! Switch is really worth 450 and Mario kart is a 50 dollar add in but for a physical/separate release you can pay the premium of 80 for the game.

However, knowing they are charging 340 equivocal dollars for switch 2 in Japan. We know that the 450 msrp is crap as well as the 80 dollar game.

[mooper50]

To me, a guy who works and earns his living in japan in yen, the japanese model is definitely not cheap either! Yes, at the current exchange rate its 340 usd equivalent, but many people don't earn usd in japan...so we still need to shell out 50,000 yen for the console, which feels like buying the console at a 500 buck price tag. and thats just for the japan-locked model. you want the region-free? gonna cost 70,000 yen!

[gamerz]

Nintendo Executive Board Directive: No matter how small the drops of blood, always squeeze the customer to the maximum amount possible. Squeeze them as if it's the last generation we'll ever see! No Mercy!! The more loyal they are the harder the squeeze!!