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Nintendo Switch 2
Luigi Dude:
--- Quote from: Kairon on April 25, 2025, 11:48:21 AM ---It's hard to tell from the preorder circus what real sentiment from buyers is, or what real supply is. How much of that chaos was caused by scalpers and bots? How many of those people were on all retailer sites simultaneously because they couldn't trust any single one to come through for them? How many are doing it now for fear of price increases in the future?
The TRUE test for supply and demand will be Holiday 2025, and the doldrums of early mid 2026.
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I mean this is the successor to a system that sold over 150 million units and has a super ambitious sequel at launch to a game that sold close to 70 million units. Even without bots and scalpers, the demand for the Switch 2 at launch it going to be huge. If Nintendo can produce enough systems this thing could easily be getting record breaking sales every month for the next year.
stevey:
There's new news about the Switch 2 hacking that has me very concerned. There was a story making the rounds a bit ago about a new EULA saying Nintendo has the right to brick systems if they are modified but most people seem to have written that off as ass covering over system updates breaking stuff after loading custom firmware. But it seems to have been actually literal. Putting a Mig cart into the system bricks the Switch 2. Not pops up an error message, not a forced shut down/reset, but an actual unrecoverable brick. Probing the flash memory chip will brick the console too. If anything causes the voltage to fluctuate slightly, the Switch 2 will assume hacking and brick itself.
I've had carts on the switch 1 randomly give an error message for no reason that I had to eject and reinsert, will the switch 2 just self destruct? If the switch 2 gets wet or dirty or humid, will it self destruct? If a spider gets inside and bridges the memory lines, self destruct? Cosmic rays and radiation, self destruct. I wanted to get a 1st revision Switch 2 but now I'm delaying it indefinitely to see how horribly this blows up in Nintendo's face.
Edit: MVG says it's bunk. We'll see in a week.
ThePerm:
Are ya'll waiting in line yet? :)
M.K.Ultra:
I was actually thinking of dropping by the local gamestop and best buy on my way home and get the details in these midnight launches. I may end up waiting in line on the evening of the fourth. Best of luck to anyone else still trying to secure a switch 2 on day 1.
Luigi Dude:
If this was 10 years ago I would definitely be waiting in a midnight line tonight. But I still have a massive backlog of Switch 1 titles to play and I don't feel it's worth messing up my sleep cycle this week and risking maybe getting sick from standing in a long line with strangers to get.
Plus I got a pretty busy summer with work and others things I'd like to do at home so it's best to just wait until around August or September to get one.
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