Will the Switch 2 be as expensive as a Steam Deck? (Valve Corporation)
The Friday letters page is very impressed by Shawn Layden’s recent prognostications, as one reader is unsure what to make of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
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Price decision
There’s been a lot of speculation about how powerful the Nintendo Switch 2 is going to be, and one reader recently made the important point that it was all limited by weight and price. I think the biggest variable is going to be how much Nintendo is willing to charge.
The Switch was £280 at launch and decades of Nintendo pricing suggests they won’t want it to be much more than that. But the cheapest Steam Deck is £350 (going all the way up to £570) so there is some argument to be made that they could go a bit more expensive.
A lot of rumours have suggested they might and there’s also talk about two different models. So maybe one around £300 and another around £500. Nintendo has never done that before but then they’ve rarely been in such a dominant position going into a generation.
Even they can get cocky and overconfident, so I wonder if they’ll price higher and whether people will accept that. Personally, if it was me, I wouldn’t go any higher than £300 for the standard version.
Alter
Get rich slow
I’ll be honest, I never liked the look of Shawn Layden when he was in charge of PlayStation America but he is 100% correct about everything he’s said over the last couple of years. Unfortunately, like you said, I don’t think anyone is going to listen to him.
Every publisher thinks their live service game is definitely going to be the next Fortnite and that everyone else trying to do the same thing are the idiots, when in fact they all are. I just don’t know what’s going to stop them and see them give up. How many times are they going to hit their head against the same brick wall? Will it just take some even dumber get rich quick scheme for them to switch plans?
Alego
Nothing to report
I’m not sure you can call the Xbox Partner Preview bad, because they never pretended it was going to be anything major, but it was a bit of a nothingburger. Far too many Soulslikes and nothing, I don’t think, that was actually exclusive to Xbox. You could easily see it as just them doing Sony’s marketing for them, because most people are going to buy these games on PlayStation 5.
I guess there could be a Switch 2 reveal this year, but I don’t expect another State of Play and instead would assume anything else big is going to be announced at The Game Awards. I’ve no idea if that will be big (obviously) but I do hope after that that publishers are going to start making an effort again next year.
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