You know what? I'm gonna not buy it even harder.

As if I needed another reason to not get one…

I remember getting the 3DS on launch day. It was considered expensive at the time, people complained, sales were sluggish, it got a price cut within six months, and I was given various digital goodies to make up for it.

Now, people buying the console more than a year after launch are getting a price increase instead. What an insane time to live in.

Nothing like paying even $50 more to play games that you've already played for the last 15 to 20 years and also repaying for those games, spending between $50 and $70 fucking dollars US for the privilege.

Nintendo have lost their goddamn minds.

Don't bother buying a Switch or a Switch 2 if you've already got a gaming PC. Just emulate that shit.

it’s called the Switch 2 because people who aren’t rich have to Switch 2 a different hobby

+$50 so they can sell you starfox for a THIRD time

Thanks, Trump.

Yeah, that will fix things.

It's already ridiculously expensive for what it is. $700 in store here in Australia

As gaming becomes more and more expensive I’ve found myself going back to retro. Just ain’t enough money left after everything else has gone up to spend on gaming anymore.

The biggest surprise is they gave people an almost 4 month heads up. Still won't be getting one, not enough games I'm interested in and they seem to be losing their touch with the string of mediocre titles they've been releasing.

Yeah, this definitely isn't connected to the shareholders demanding price increases "to protect margins." No, its market conditions, obviously! Nothing to do with the shareholders!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-05-06/nintendo-switch-2-price-hike-in-spotlight-ahead-of-earnings

Market conditions: Xbox and Sony already did it in anticipation of GTA 6

12GB DDR5 for just 50€ extra? Sounds kind of ok if we could get half of the RAM out and put it into PCs...

But maybe they should consider reviving the 3DS as it only used 128MB (they could produce 90x 3DS for a Switch 2)

I remember when companies wanted you to be locked into their ecosystem and buy their games so much they'd lose money on the console. "Loss leader".

Funny that they waited to raise the price until after the tariffs were decided to be illegal.

Wages are not up. I'm not going to spend that much money on a redundant toy. Pay me more then I'll think about it.

I think I'll work on my backlog first. That will last a few yers.

Fuck that. First Nintendo console in a long time that I don't give a shit about.

Put fucking games on the carts and we will talk.