Topic: Switch 2 Talk

How many put themselves onto Nintendo Preorder reservation list?

@Jester676 I did, although if I get accepted I haven't decided whether to actually pre-order or not.

The Switch 2 UI was shown, and it looks similar to the Switch UI, but some differences were spotted, like GameShare and GameChat being added to the HOME Menu options at the bottom, edges looking rounded and the selection key having different colors instead of solid blue.

Although from seeing it still be white and that none of the media showing it heading to the Themes section, it’s looking likely that we’re still only gonna have white and black themes like on Switch.

Meanwhile some new features were added to the OS, like increasing text size, mapping buttons, changing display colors, and even text-to-speech voice accessibility.

Outside of that, it appears that Nintendo has chosen to take the Xbox and Apple route for the UI aside from adding some new features and other changes.

It’s probably how even though the Switch 2 has more resources to work with, Nintendo is past the era of adding themes and chose to save enough resources for games while adding some more space to the OS was just a case of improving performance and some other new features, not for if they wanted to add themes.

I'm ok with this. The PlayStation UX is WAY too complicated

@Gryffin Yeah, although it would be a missed opportunity if they don’t bring themes back on Switch 2.

Following confirmation that the Switch 2 would be $449 ($499 with Mario Kart World) and Mario Kart World would be $80, people got so mad they even took to yesterday’s Treehouse video and spammed Nintendo on the live chat to “DROP THE PRICE.”

After US preorders were delayed, the same has also happened for Canada.

@MrCarlos46 As unfortunate as this is for me as a Canadian, it’s not really that surprising. When comparing the console prices in Canada and the U.S. to Japan, it’s pretty clear Nintendo wants to keep Canada and U.S in line with one another. So a double delay was sadly inevitable. Hopefully this doesn’t set things too far back

Looks like Hades II will be a Switch family-of-platforms exclusive for a limited time.

@SplatRay001 Considering Nintendo of America also manages the Canadian market, they want things for the US and Canada happening at the same time, so yeah. This was gonna happen eventually, we just didn’t think it would happen the day before preorders go live.

Although possible reasoning could be because US people could just drive up to Canada and take up a majority of Switch 2 units from there assuming the price in the states goes up higher and Nintendo doesn’t want Canadians to be left out of getting one.

It’s also why pricing is similar around the world except Japan to an extent, because Japan will have have a cheaper model at 49,980 yen ($340 USD) that only has the Japanese language and only connects to Japanese accounts. It’s gonna be the one sold at Japanese retailers, while the global version is only on the Japanese My Nintendo Store for 69,980 yen, which is closer but higher than the US price. Reasoning for that may because of Japan’s weak yen where if they just had the global version people would also just import from there, especially scalpers where they could spend less to buy units there and sell them for more.

And it’s not just US pricing that could be affected. What about Latin American pricing? That could be affected too, considering Nintendo products in Latin America are just supplied by Nintendo of America themselves to local distributors. They don’t have a separate branch for Latin America and Brazil.