Nintendo offers new details on Switch 2 hardware, software

<em>Mario Kart World</em> leads off a packed presentation.

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Man the audio-sync issues in the stream are jarring.

EDIT: And then the video completely froze right before Enter the Gungeon. This is wild.

EDIT 2: The UK stream is so clean.

 

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Did that Elden Ring Tarnished Edition look a little bit too.. bright to anyone else lol? Felt kind of weird, but maybe that was just a touch up for easier viewing for the presentation?

 

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Switch 2 the UK stream

I did as soon as the video totally froze lol. The UK stream is so clean.

 

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Bad day for the Direct unfortunately. We won't get a price until after Trump announces tariffs today I bet. They need to figure out what kind of additional cost importers/retailers are going to have to absorb/pass on in the US.

If he announces a 20%+ on Japan then I think that basically closes the gap between the USD and the JPY and we end up with a $450 USD Switch 2...

EDIT Well I was both right and wrong. We already have a $450 USD price in the US, and 100 cheaper in Japan.

 

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Was catching up late on the video and it just went private

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Probably swapping the Premiere stream with a permanent stream. Especially for the Nintendo of America stream. The America stream was a nightmare of audio delay and frozen video.

 

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Looks like news agencies received a press report from Nintendo saying that the Switch is $450 USD and 500 for the one with the digital Mario Kart? Is this confirmed?

 

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If I account for inflation the €329 introductory price for the Switch would now be €415. So the €470 for the Switch 2 is actually pretty close to the 2017 price.

Add a 15% tariff and you get 477. Apples to oranges of course, comparing euro to USD. But kinda similar.

 

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It’s a Japan product sold in the EU and almost none of the components are manufactured in the US.

For EU this will be mostly unaffected by tariffs.

BTW how does VAT work? I've been wondering the past couple weeks if it's similar to if the US had a flat 20% tariff on everything from everywhere, and that 20% was passed on 1:1 to the consumer?