Let’s chat about the Nintendo Switch 2. This is a gaming website and what is more hype then the announcement of a new console. One that people have been clamoring about for a while now. I have tried to be a switch girlie, but I’m a PC girlie at heart. Every game that I have bought for the Switch I have repurchased on Steam. I tried taking it with me on trips but when the screen goes black I hate seeing my disgusting face looking down at it. Enough about me and the old Switch this article is about the shiny new Switch 2.
I woke up to watch the live stream and I was enchanted. Adding a chat button so you can have the talking with your friends over Discord experience but with Switch games is neat, but the Nintendo Switch 2 Camera used for face cam is sadly sold separately. Luckily you can use any compatible USB-C® camera you’d like, however not all cameras may work. Games like Mario Party Jamboree Switch 2 Edition can use the camera in a similar way to the Xbox Kinect or Playstation EyeToy, I guess we never learn.
I’m a big fan of the Switch 2’s ability to use the JoyCon as a mouse. I think that will make playing shooters like the new Metroid Prime 4 Beyond much more smooth. In fact all the Switch 2 games look incredible. An open world Mario Kart and Donkey Kong game sound amazing! Breath of the Wild’s popularity really changed the games industry.
I was mesmerized watching the Direct until they talked about the Switch 2 Tutorial Game, Welcome Tour. It to me seemed like any other “virtual exhibition” of new hardware much like its predecessors, Playstations Astro’s Playroom and Valve’s Aperture Hand Lab. The catch for Welcome Tour is like unlike these other titles it is not free, it will cost you 10 dollars. Now 10 dollars isn’t a lot but I remember when Wii Sports was packaged with the Wii as a sort of “teach you how to play the new hardware” kinda game. The Switch 2 is the second console so everyone should know how to use it, it’s not like it changes the Switch controls that much, but then why make a tutorial game at all then?
This on top of the crazy price hike in the games makes me wonder if this is worth it or is Nintendo just extremely money grubby. It’s been about two years since games moved from 60 to 70 dollars and now Nintendo is taking the initiative and bumping that ten more dollars. They are even charging 80 dollars for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Switch 2 version because they think the new content is worth that price hike. They are pricing their games on Nintendo’s estimated value of that entertainment. RIP to Donkey Kong and its developers whose game is priced at 70 dollars instead of Mario and Zelda’s 80$. It seems to me that they are just raising the price of their most popular IPs because they know people will buy them and they can squeeze more money out of the consumer. At this point I don’t wanna be a Switch girlie anymore.
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