John Roper
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263 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard May 2025
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I'm very happy with what they're doing for this upgrade. It feels like a worthy successor to the original Switch because now we're playing at 1080p on the go. I can get 120 frames docked. I can now have 4K games. But the thing I kind of want to get into now, Gary, is and I'm actually going to bring up another super chat on this.
is new matteo and he is saying the domestic region locked japanese switch to is about 330 usd so without the tariffs or with trade issues i think it would have wait i'm sorry i'm reading this wrong or or trade issues i think it would have been more online with that so i think what he's saying and i could be wrong
And we know the tariffs in the current state of the world, we're seeing all these prices. So I think they're preemptively pricing this higher because of tariffs. I think the tariffs are an excuse personally. But what is your thoughts on all this? Does tariffs, is tariffs affecting this or the use? I mean, I touched on it a little bit.
Yeah, and Greg is actually pointing out right now the yen is also weak. Right, right. So all of that.
So I want to get this other super chatting and I want to start getting to some other things with all this news that we have here. So I believe I'm saying this mental junior. Hope I'm saying this correctly. He's asking, does the game sharing aspect justify the price increases? I'll start now. I'll answer that one. I don't think so. I don't think that's justifying the price increases.
I think it's to everything that you've already been talking about, Gary. But what are your thoughts on that?
I fight for the users. What? Does the new game sharing feature aspect justify the price increases?
Well, I think you have that virtual game-sharing card where I can essentially loan out my game to someone else that's in my family group for two weeks, and then it automatically comes back. So, like I said, we're still trying to figure out all the information on this.
They're not always transparent about this stuff. The way I phrased it, Gary.
That's still good. I think it's a great feature. Again, I don't think this affects price increases. I don't think this has anything to do with it, which was the original question. But it's a great new feature.
Yeah, I'm going to doubt it as well. All right. So so moving on again, I do want to make sure we hit the super chest that we have. So I'm going to jump into this one really quick. So this is from Phil Silva and he goes, games cost more to develop and devs pay more for eggs, too. They deserve $80 for AAA games alternatives by smaller titles or wait for sales.
Now, I'm going to say that I disagree on that.
completely because i i'm not a fan of these rising prices of games i understand like you mentioned before gary that game prices were static for a very long time but we've literally gone from 60 to 80 within one gaming generation and when does it end and we obviously talked about the elephant in the room with grand theft auto 6 how is that going to affect things as well so I get it.
There's rising costs with game development. We obviously see it way more in AAA than we do at the AA and the indie level. My suggestion to anyone is when they see these prices, I get there's FOMO. You want to play things right away. You know, if $80 is too much for you to play Mario Kart day one, maybe you have to wait. wait until there's a price drop or sale or whatever.
I know, Nintendo never drops the price. I get it. Again, I'm not happy with it. None of this makes me happy. I mean, again, I've already ordered the bundle, so clearly I'm going to get a day one, but... No, I don't like the precedent that this is setting.
Now, speaking on that to kind of transition a little bit, just talking about prices. So they've also announced that you're going to have select switch one games. You know, you're going to have backwards compatibility, but you're going to have select switch one games, which will have a quote unquote switch to enhance version.
Like I think Breath of the Wild was one of the ones they showed or something like that. But there's going to be a price difference. with being able to... Either you can just buy the Switch 2 Enhanced version standalone, or if you already own the game, you can pay an additional cost to upgrade it to the Switch 2 Enhanced version. How do you feel about that? What are your thoughts on that?
Is that justifiable to charge?
Yeah, and to add on to that, because Jordan Middler over at VGC, he also comments and says that there will be, Nintendo has released a list of games that will receive free updates for Nintendo Switch 2, but won't receive full Nintendo Switch 2 edition upgrades.
So, and I won't go through this whole list, but it's games like Captain Toad, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario 3D World, you know, Bowser's Fury, Link's Awakening is another example, Pokemon Legends, Super Mario, what is this? Sorry.
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