{"id":299782,"date":"2025-04-03T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=352320"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:59:15","slug":"the-switch-2-has-disappointed-me-with-its-luxury-prices-for-a-premium-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-switch-2-has-disappointed-me-with-its-luxury-prices-for-a-premium-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Switch 2 has disappointed me with its luxury prices for a premium remake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is not the first time that Nintendo, when launching a new console, looks at its last success and adds a subtitle: from Nintendo to Super Nintendo, from Nintendo DS to Nintendo 3DS, from Wii to WiiU. Of course, after the hit of the Switch, we couldn’t expect anything other than Switch 2. After much talk, back and forth the console has already been presented to the public, and the aftertaste it leaves is… bittersweet.<\/strong> No matter how exciting its new features are, in the end, it is literally more of the same but much -much- more expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n

Put the money, kid, put the money right here<\/h2>\n\n\n

I must confess that I have been a lifelong Nintendero: I grew up on Game Boy, Super Mario, Kirby, and Animal Crossing, and I have always defended the Japanese company as an essential “second console” in any self-respecting gamer household. PlayStation and Xbox are more interchangeable with each other, but the big N will always offer things that no one else can: worlds full of color, vibrant gameplay, unique characters, gaming experiences that you can’t find anywhere else. And usually, at a family-friendly price. After all, it’s Nintendo, it’s home, it’s family<\/strong>, it’s that uncle with somewhat strange ideas that somehow always end up working.<\/p>\n\n\n

In Switch 2, apart from explaining the obvious technical improvements (4K finally on a console from the Japanese brand!), Nintendo has spent a large part of its Direct selling us a button to talk to your friends while playing with them online. Moreover, it has added a camera (sold separately for 60 euros) to be able to see each other while playing, even sharing your screen. Yes, you all know what Nintendo has just invented: Discord. However, it’s paid. <\/strong>That was the missing piece.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Perhaps it’s an age thing, but I couldn’t help but feel that the presentation of the new console has been superficial. A way to show us that they can compete with “the big players”<\/strong> and, for that reason, they will release a handful of games that have already appeared years ago on Sony and Microsoft consoles, something like a greatest hits of recent years, between Cyberpunk 2077 and Yakuza 0. Being completely honest, the effort is appreciated, but if we buy a Nintendo console, it’s to play Nintendo games. And what they have shown us is… disappointing.<\/p>\n\n\n

Mario Kart World looks stunning, of course, and all its promises really open the doors (literally) to the franchise, which now becomes a semi-open world while respecting the rules known to all. It’s exciting, it’s fun, it’s unique, it’s a true console seller. But beyond that, what is there? New versions of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Mario Party Jamboree with additional levels or graphical improvements for Switch 2, for which you have to pay extra? An exclusive from FromSoftware? A late sequel to Kirby Air Ride? It already feels a bit tedious, but the price is what has ultimately made me decide, to be very honest, to sit back and wait<\/strong> and not let myself be carried away by the intense desire.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Time to dig into your wallet!<\/h2>\n\n\n

And the clean console, without a single game (even the technical demo has to be paid for) will cost 469.99 euros, and the edition with Mario Kart World in digital will be 40 euros more<\/strong>. In other words, more than the PS5 Digital and just a little cheaper than the regular one. But it’s not that Nintendo is going to offset this price with games for all budgets: Mario Kart will cost 89.99 euros in physical (79.99 in digital), and Donkey Kong: Bananza will be ten euros less. Preparing for a next generation where releases will already cost three figures, and with the difference that, unless there is a debacle (like in the case of the 3DS), prices here do not drop. Never.<\/p>\n\n\n

I acknowledge that I am horrified. Switch 2 has ceased to be an accessible console for everyone and has become a luxury product.<\/strong> And no matter how many small (or not so small) improvements it has, it is an unaffordable price for a secondary console. Obviously, if you are a die-hard Nintendo fan, you probably already have it on your shopping list. If not, you may need to think it over and do the math before making a decision. On social media, you could read that quite a few people had backed out after learning the price, and that is a bad omen for the company.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For now, it is impossible to know if we are facing a new WiiU or a repeat of Nintendo’s success: it is true that the mouse mode will be perfect for playing shooters and that, obviously, we will have the Nintendo franchises of now and always, but one must ask whether it is worth waiting to see if they really make the most of its capabilities<\/strong> and check if, in some way, there is a price drop and the bigger games go below the barrier of 89.99 euros.<\/p>\n\n\n

If this is all there was, Nintendo has slipped up. <\/strong>It will sell like hotcakes, yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that they probably expected a warmer reaction on social media. Believing that the majority of their audience would follow them at any cost (literally), Switch 2 has become a kind of rich version of the battle console that not everyone is willing to pay for. A spectacular cold shower for a premium rehash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not the first time that Nintendo, when launching a new console, looks at its last success and adds a subtitle: from Nintendo to Super Nintendo, from Nintendo DS to Nintendo 3DS, from Wii to WiiU. Of course, after the hit of the Switch, we couldn’t expect anything other than Switch 2. After much talk, back and forth, the console has already been presented to the public, and the aftertaste it leaves is… bittersweet. No matter how exciting its new features are, in the end, it is literally more of the same but much -much- more expensive. Put down the cash, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":299791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1543,6141,3900],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-299782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mario-kart","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-opinion","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308218,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299782\/revisions\/308218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299782"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=299782"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=299782"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=299782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}