A Quick thought on the Switch 2 pricing thing
To be up front about this: I have no horse in this race. I'm not buying a Switch 2. Not because I hate what it is (I actually like it from a hardware point of view) but because I am entirely priced out of it. In fact, this is why I sold my original Switch, primarily because I couldn't afford to keep it fed with games anymore. Thinking back, I can't help but feel like the original Switch led us into this. Sure, it was cheaper than its contemporaries (kind of, it wouldn't beat the Xbox One S on price until the launch of the Lite) but the game pricing would present an issue later on: They'd never, ever, ever go on sale. Breath of the Wild would never see anything resembling a significant discount over its lifespan, unless you bought used from some kid on Craigslist who just wanted the game gone and to recoup something from it. All of Nintendo's 1st party titles were like this. The only significant discount you could find from authorized retailers and Nintendo ...