(this is a repost of the description of a art post I made talking about the switch 2)

Okay, so enough time has passed for me to honestly give my thoughts on the Nintendo switch 2 As an original switch owner since Christmas of 2017, I’m gonna go through my thoughts on this console and it’s games, first off the console it’s self, I think It’s neat. just neat, it has some cool new additions on it such as mouse controls, a bigger and brighter screen at 7.9 inches and being lcd, more storage, full backwards compatibility, 120 fps and being comparable in power to a Xbox series s or a steam deck (I don’t own either of those so this is just speculation, correct me if I’m wrong) so, it’s pretty powerful for a Nintendo console which is cool and all, but I don’t play with consoles/pcs for power tbh, I play for games I can enjoy,

Now let’s go over the games. Mario kart world and donkey Kong Bananza look absolutely amazing (we’ll talk about world later) Kirby’s air ride 2’s trailer looks promising DELTARUNE, SILKSONG AND MORE POKÉMON LEGENGS Z-A NEWS where huge surprises to me, but the switch 2 editions are kinda pointless to me due the fact it’s backwards compatible and some of the games really don’t need new content tbh but it’s cool that some like Mario party jamboree and Kirby and the FORGOtten land is getting dlc, but that dlc should’ve been on the original switch to begin with in my humble opinion,

Mario kart world has a bunch of new features such as free roam and knockout tour (and allowing you to play as Cody’s mom aka a cow) Donkey Kong Bananza is basically the bowser part from odyssey and the gameplay looks addicting as heck for me, overall the games look fantastic and might be fun to play for those getting the switch 2, now let’s talk about that one thing everyone is talking about….

The prices: the Nintendo switch 2 is 450$ (which is honestly fair) by itself 500$ if you get the Mario kart bundle (which I recommend getting because you get the game without having to pay for the egregious price of that game) donkey Kong Bananza is 70$ (which is the maximum price I wanna pay to play games) And Mario kart world is not 60$ not 70$ but it’s 80 DOLLARS WHAT THE HECK WHERE THEY THINKING?!?! How did Nintendo go from having there best year for releases and announcements (2024, Mario and luigi brothership, Zelda echos of wisdom,metroid prime 4 and Pokémon legends Z-a for example) to charging 80 bucks to play there games?!? It’s not just Mario kart, Kirby and the forgotten land switch 2 edition is also 80$ which is idiotic since it’s 3 years old. I genuinely hope Nintendo lowers the prices of these games and products because this could damage their sales, and lead to another 3ds/wii u bump. I agree, Mario kart world being 80$ is straight up a mr krabs level greedy move and they deserve to be called out for that.

Now let’s talk about game key cards, these are genuinely kinda pointless, I mostly buy my stuff physically so it kinda sucks booty that I can’t buy it actually physically, (sorry if this part is kinda short, I’m not to mad about this, just disappointed)

The accessories, they are way to expensive, why are the Joycons are 90$ (they better not drift even though my joycons don’t) and the amibos are 40$, luckily we don’t need these accessories.

My overall thoughts: the Nintendo switch 2’s a good console but let down by bad ideas, being a bit to expensive and Nintendo overly shooting themselves in the foot, honestly I’m just keeping my original switch and for those who’s gonna own the switch 2 in future how is it, How’s Mario kart world, is it good or not, I genuinely want to know in case I get it when they permanently lower the prices of the console and games due to slumpy sales. Overall the switch 2 is a honest (7/10) good console let down by really bad decision making from Nintendo.

What are your thoughts on this console and games?

my opinions kinda came from videos by demeech, m64bros reecee and gred glinstone