No, since I would expect Indie World would be an even bigger disappointment in that case. If the big third party developers did not present anything that excited you, what are the odds that a game made by a small, underfunded team will?

I am guessing this is the overflow from the third party direct. They sent out word for developers to send them trailers for upcoming games and got more responses than they wanted. The big name studios were put in the main show and this showcase is the trailers that were edited out for time.

I am surprised by this, I assumed that with the Switch 2 out, Nintendo would be done making Switch 1 consoles and just selling what they have in stock. If that was the case, Nintendo would be cutting prices to clear out warehouses and reduce storage costs.

The fact that Nintendo is raising prices means that they expect to sell every single Switch they have and will need to bring more into the country (so they are going to be hit with rising material costs to manufacture and then tariffs).

What is cheap for one person is expensive for another. People have different levels of disposable income. For some people, a Switch is just a device to use while waiting for Steam to download patches. For others, it is the only gaming device they plan to buy this decade.

It is inconvenient to leave an adapter connected to my headphones, because I want to use the same pair of headphones for my tablet, computer, and Switch, all of which have a real headphone jack. I also need to buy an extra adapter for the aux cable in the car and constantly have to debug if it is the audio cable or adapter that is going bad.

What adapter do you use? Seriously, I am open to paying more for an adapter once instead of buying cheap adapters over and over.

Were multiplatform games more expensive on Switch? I don’t pay too much attention to prices, but whenever I glance at the Nintendo store something or other is on sale.

Now first party Nintendo games rarely go on sale since they sell well as it is.

The important quote from the article

What the launch sales of Switch 2 primarily tell us is that they made a lot of Switch 2 to sell at launch. Lifetime sales and launch sales of a console often do not correlate, meaning that some consoles with small launches ended up doing incredibly well lifetime (PS2 only sold 400k in its launch month) while others with big launches ended up not doing as well lifetime. Since launch month demand is rarely satiated by available supply (and it is certainly not a great sign when it is, historically) all we can really get a read on at launch is the confidence of the manufacturer to make so many units available, and the ability of the supply chain to get those units into the market.

This is still very positive news for the long term viability of the Switch 2 because having a solid install base means third parties have more incentive to port games to the system.

Remember, you can always block the haters. They can talk about how they are still not buying a Nintendo system and you can have a constructive discussion with people who agree with you.

Nintendo clearly wants to transition to digital only for some reason, even though they’re releasing some first party games on the carts still.

I keep seeing people say that, but I don’t see any evidence of it. Nintendo (or at least the video game publishing division) seems to be the biggest proponent of “game on cart” releases. Even Limited Run Games is announcing that they will make Game Key Cards for many of their releases.

The headline is click bait. I would only judge the launch as “not gone well” when the system fails to sell.

Addressing a couple of the points they made in the article:

The announced price is more than people expected, but day 1 buyers are probably die hard fans and influencers, who would buy it anyway, at double the price. The real test is going to be the holidays and how the price looks side by side with rivals. Based on the news from Microsoft, the Nintendo prices will be in line with the competition. Also, if price does cause issues, Nintendo may get a “free” price drop in the US when Trump drops tariffs (consumers pay less but Nintendo maintains their margins).

Having retailer pre-order systems fail under the Switch 2 load is not Nintendo’s fault. If anything, it shows that the system will sell well initially. Also, they are not losing sales if consumers get a website crash instead of “sold out”.

And the GameBoy and GameBoy Advance or the DS and 3DS. All the follow ups fail to live up to the heights of the predecessor, but not all failures.

So it may be worth $10 for some people, then. I am fine with a cheaper game with slightly worse graphics. I am not sure I even notice if a game is running at 60 fps or 30 fps. Even when a game dips below 30, I notice it getting a bit choppy, but a game should be engaging enough that I will not pay it any attention.

Not really. People on Lemmy are paranoid. Not saying that corporations are not assholes looking to maximize how much of your money they are getting but they are not out to hurt you. Believe it or not, corporations actually want consumers to like them. Most corporate actions are not evil, they are caused by workers being lazy and cutting corners.

What seems more likely? Nintendo testing remote bricking of systems on customers instead of QA or Nintendo OS developers not having firmware ready by the time manufacturing started (and IT scrambling last minute to bring up update servers in time for launch).

Isn’t it rumored that Nintendo has been manufacturing Switch 2 hardware for years? Those early manufactured consoles are not going to have a fully functional OS. Makes sense that they have a basic firmware that can connect to the update servers and fetch the released OS once it is available.

Are they getting ahead of a leak?

They know that someone is about to spoil the release date, so they quickly throw together a tweet to control the message and buy time for a more comprehensive and thought out announcement as part of the Nintendo Direct.

According to the article, the upgrade will get you “a higher resolution and improved framerates.”

For me, that upgrade is not worth it. I will play the game entirely in portable mode and my vision is not what it used to be, so I don’t care about resolution.

Do other games need a major performance patch?

Isn’t Steam even more always online?

Yes, I also think physical releases are best (at least for how I play games).

That has nothing to do with anything. I am specifically talking about digital copies. Last I checked, I could not take a digital 3DS purchase I made and give it to a friend to play on their system.

The (only) advantage of Game Carts over digital is that you can resell them and lend them to people outside of your (digital) family.