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Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

guess i will stick with this one🥲

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Formatting looks wonky, but the message comes through. Awesome effort. 😀

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

*in the USA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would never had imagined that in my lifetime I’d see gringos reverse-smuggling game consoles from Mexico. I guess you could smuggle them from Canada too, but Mexico has always smuggled merch from USA. We even have a term for it: “fayuca”.

The lucky ones that live near the border can cross, shop switches 2 at non-orange prices, open them and smuggle the back as personal devices.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Oh, you think Canadians aren’t going to get in on tariff evasion? They 100% will.

The tremendous irony is America was founded to evade massive tariffs, sorta… and now we’re doing it to our self.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can tell Americans think their country is the Internet, and the Internet is oriented for Americans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You're not wrong. But OP just wrote what the title said and the article quickly clarifies its for the US.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I see a lot of people ragging on the switch and comparing it to the Steam Deck. I own both but

I’m gonna say this: they’re not even direct competitors. They don’t offer the same experiences at all.

The beauty of the Switch is the ease of use, modularity of control, and communal nature of it. Even if switch online sucks, playing with other switches or 8 people in the same room with certain games is unbelievably easy. The plug and play usability and every single game you can buy from the internal store just works.

Not to mention the dock is flawless and literally easy to use. For all its problems, the switch is a surprisingly well executed idea. There’s a reason they sold hundreds of millions of them.

Steam is catching up, but there’s still a ways to go between proton compatible games, connecting controllers, plugging into a dock without having to bend down and plug a cable etc. The Switch is simply put: easy.

That said, Nintendo is stupid for pricing the Switch 2 out of the “no brainer” casual gamer territory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Also most of Nintendo’s target audience has no idea that the Steam Deck exists. Like if a kid asks their parents for a Switch 2 the parents aren’t going to suggest the Steam Deck since they don’t know what it is. Nintendo does a shit ton of traditional advertising, the Nintendo brand has an enormous mind share among the general audience. The mind share for Steam is almost non existent outside of PC gamers.

And many kids I know who play PC games don’t even have Steam installed. Since they only play Roblox and Fortnite on their PC. Nintendo is not competing with the Steam Deck. Their real competition is Apple and Android because of Fortnite, Roblox and TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

As owner and early adopter of both - disagree.

Switch is gathering dust for me and everytime I pull it out i feel like getting my steamdeck instead.

The only exception I can think off is low profile traveling but that's a very small niche if people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see a lot of people saying they shouldn't be compared, but it still does make sense to do so as most can't afford both.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And outside of coop couch, the switch pales in comparison on just about everything else.

Game prices: higher

Feel in hands? Awkward

Removable controllers: pop off or loosen during solo gameplay causing everything to pause in order to fix it, which can, but isn't always, be a quick easy fix.

Plus, games like Animal Crossing that allow coop couch still demand individual switch consoles if you want the full experience for multiple people.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

you can fix the online problems with a USB-to-ethernet adapter on the dock

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, people are bitching about first party titles never going down in price, meanwhile I'm here enjoying my 300Eur indie machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

~~$442~~ Wait, new us price (since its built in china, for a Japanese company) is $1000

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

You can still get a Steam Deck and save a ton of games.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (16 children)

I delayed my preorder when I saw the bullshit price gouging for game prices.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The Switch 2 looks like absolute garbage so they can keep it.

My next console purchase with be a Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

i have a steam deck and it's awesome but it's silly to think that it looks like garbage. the switch 2 looks pretty awesome.

[–] ILikeBoobies 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ask about your use case

You might do better with just a htpc

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[–] [email protected] 205 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Are we tired of winning yet America ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, we'll probably keep winning for at least the next few months, it looks like the party is just getting started.

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