*** Nintendo Switch ***
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Amazon have been a bit odd with the Switch:
Didn't have the neon version up initially
Pro Controller is still showing at £100 rather than £65 as per elsewhere
Listing the Joy Con charging grip but not the standard ones which don't charge
People who have actually played the Switch have said it looks great, there are some who are obsessed by frame rates and resolutions so Nintendo are never going to appeal to them so why bother trying.
The biggest issues I see are supply and cost, although due to the higher price supply might not be as big an issue.
Yeah resolution is exactly what I was expecting. 720 handheld & 1080 docked
The price was however not what I was expecting
If it had been £250 then people would have said it should be £230, if it had been £230 they'd have said it should be £199...
We can in part thank all the Brexiteers for the slightly inflated price, I honestly think it would have been £250 if not for the falling pound.
Bundling 1-2 Switch would have made sense as a way to get people using the controllers in new ways like Wii Sports did. It might not appeal to hardcore gamers but I know this is the sort of thing my wife, daughter and family members will get a kick out of.
I'd be buying it eventually anyway so I'd rather pay the premium and have Zelda on day one rather than arguing over the difference of £50 which in the scheme of things isn't a huge amount of money.
I'm not wasteful or trying to be flippant but I don't smoke or go out boozing and clubbing, video games are my hobby so I don't mind spending money on a system which I'll use regularly for probably the next 3 to 4 years (as a minimum).
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Reggie always comes across like a used car salesman when he talks hard to take him seriously. Also Nintendo like to say a lot, actions speak louder than words.
I mean does any of this sound familiar?
http://neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=533874
They have been promising no game droughts every generation since the Wii and had droughts on every single console.
The price is nothing to do with Brexit I'm afraid. It's just as high in the US and in Europe.
£250 would have still been high but it was a figure I had decided was the maximum I was willing to pay for the hardware.
I can wait for a price drop. Plenty to play on my PC, PS4 and Xbox in the mean time.
£250 would have still been high but it was a figure I had decided was the maximum I was willing to pay for the hardware.
I can wait for a price drop. Plenty to play on my PC, PS4 and Xbox in the mean time.
The difference is that most people see $299 for the Switch as reasonable in the US.
It's only when everyone over here starts converting and then kicks off at how we're being ripped off, etc.....
I just don't expect to see a price drop this year - especially if it sells well.
The price i was expecting (hoping?) for was £200. That would have made me buy one at launch.
And yeah the price has nothing to do with brexit at all, just Nintendo's pricing!
He's the type of guy that stereotypical american salesman that americans love.
Can't say I noticed a drought on the Wii?
+1
How did you work that out then? That is like saying exchange rates do not matter. The reality is, it does however. The pound has weakened a lot vs the dollar due to brexit, this is a fact. If I have missed something, please do enlighten me
Please explain this.
The $299 excludes local, state and city sales tax in the US which a lot of people forget when they do a straight conversion, it averages about 5-10% I gather.
Whereas our price in GBP includes the rather **** taking 20% VAT.
Tried to copy and paste, but this is a massive wall of text.
Prior to clicking "choo choo! Massive train of salt"
http://www.zeldainformer.com/rumor-switch-may-have-dev-kits-that-support-4k-possible-scd/
In a nutshell, possibly a new dev kit has been spotted. Could even be an actual home console?
Prior to clicking "choo choo! Massive train of salt"
http://www.zeldainformer.com/rumor-switch-may-have-dev-kits-that-support-4k-possible-scd/
In a nutshell, possibly a new dev kit has been spotted. Could even be an actual home console?
The console is pretty equally priced over the world (there are a few exceptions), its too expensive everywhere, not just here.+1
How did you work that out then? That is like saying exchange rates do not matter. The reality is, it does however. The pound has weakened a lot vs the dollar due to brexit, this is a fact. If I have missed something, please do enlighten me
Please explain this.
That is a massive train of salt. But good food for thought.
Didn't Nintendo create patents for such a device?
Would be cool if in a years time they released it as a addon to the Switch with a bunch of new games and third party one's to hopefully that will be on par or better than Scorpio
I would buy one if it was implemented well. But not holding my breath
That would be nice. Although such disparity in power between docked and not would be an issue. At the very least a rubbish use of a GTX1060!
What does that have to do with anything exactly? That does not mean anything.
It seems equally priced because you are accepting the exchange rate of today vs the dollar. However, had the console come out say June 1st 2016 and was priced exactly the same as now everywhere, people here in the UK would be ape **** mad, as they would seriously ripping us off. Hope this helps, if not maybe I can go into more detail and do the maths for you
What does that have to do with anything exactly? That does not mean anything.
It seems equally priced because you are accepting the exchange rate of today vs the dollar. However, had the console come out say June 1st 2016 and was priced exactly the same as now everywhere, people here in the UK would be ape **** mad, as they would seriously ripping us off. Hope this helps, if not maybe I can go into more detail and do the maths for you
Sounds like your making an assumption that the price would be different only in the UK if this was announced at this time last year.
And this is still pointless as it doesn't change the fact the console is too expensive EVERYWHERE.