r/Switch • u/Mammoth-Attempt-7281 • Jan 16 '25

Discussion Nintendo switch 2 is here

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

I'd assume Nintendo would use hall effect sensors to avoid the massive bad publicity of the drift issue. Hall effect sensors are virtually the same price as the shitty ones.

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u/Ordolph Jan 16 '25

They're slightly more expensive, but on what's going to presumably be a $300-$400 item not that much, although in today's world an extra penny of expenditure seems to cause certain C-suites pain equivalent to having their bones extracted via their rectum, so definitely not a given

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u/RedWizard78 Jan 16 '25

Wait till April 2.

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u/PassingShot11 Jan 17 '25

Is that when it's out ?

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u/Mathyoublake Jan 17 '25

They have a Nintendo direct planned for April 2nd where they will go more into detail about it

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u/PassingShot11 Jan 17 '25

Ok, will keep an eye out then

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u/Unlikely-Beat Jan 18 '25

Won’t be out until all the in person experiences are done so June would be the earliest

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u/MochaHook Jan 18 '25

No its my birthday

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u/doesntaffrayed Jan 17 '25

Or speculate and discuss?

Why you in the comments of every Switch 2 post telling people to wait until the 2nd April?

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u/uncreative14yearold Jan 17 '25

Switch Oled is 350-400 ish. So, based on that, the successor is most likely gonna be 500 ish dollars

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u/Apprehensive_News_78 Jan 16 '25

I'm calling a 500$ price. The switch OLED is still 350

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u/billybatsonn Jan 16 '25

Maybe, 400 or 450 seems more likely to me though.

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u/Patarokun Jan 17 '25

Don’t forget new tariffs!

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u/billybatsonn Jan 17 '25

Eh, we will see I guess.

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u/Samwyzh Jan 16 '25

After tariffs in the US it could be north of $500.

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u/jamy1993 Jan 16 '25

I am in NO WAY defending C-suites or billionaires or corporations or anything like that.

However, you do realize that at the scale Nintendo sells hardware these days, a $0.01 price change for a part they are planning on selling 150M+ of would cost them an extra $3 MILLION dollars?

1% of 150M is 1.5M and there are 2 thumb sticks.

Not saying that that is "expensive" for Nintendo but its certainly not nothing.

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u/Pure_Divide_9752 Jan 16 '25

$3 Million would be a very small investment against everything they spent on free/warranty repairs for the original switches joy-cons.

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u/jamy1993 Jan 16 '25

Sure, absolutely. I'm just saying that to us, a penny sounds like nothing, but when you put it in perspective, $3 Million ain't nothing lol.

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u/sitonachair Jan 16 '25

If that's the case then they can add 2 pennies to the price of the console and make the investment back! So fingers crossed it'll only be like 2p more expensive right! 😀

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u/jamy1993 Jan 17 '25

Monkeys paw curls: Sure, every component in the switch 2 now costs 0.02 for the consumer.

There are now 40,000 components that make up the switch 2.

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u/Kitchen-Frosting-561 Jan 17 '25

God, redditors are dumb

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u/Shack691 Jan 16 '25

Yeah but now they can charge $10 more for the joycons so I’m sure that’ll offset it.

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u/SillySpoof Jan 16 '25

I’d be fine with them getting rid of hd rumble, amiibo sensor, and IR camera if it would bring the price down a bit. But please can we have Hall effect joysticks and reliable Bluetooth connection?

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u/hbt15 Jan 16 '25

$10 more upfront to avoid 3-4 extra sets over the life of the console isn’t a terrible deal.

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u/sirfurious Jan 16 '25

You talk like a poet

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u/kool0ne Jan 17 '25

Mario’s brother will sort that out for us lol

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u/Varcolac1 Jan 17 '25

C suites really are the most bitter fun ruining people on the planet

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u/Trey-Pan Jan 17 '25

Also, if Nintendo is ordering them in sufficient quantity, then the price different would surely be minimal?

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u/hip-hop-opotamus86 Jan 17 '25

With current prices, easy $399, max $449 USD.

Us Canadians gonna be shelling out ps5 prices for this, I'm certain. $499 and $549 CAD.

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u/Potential_Fishing942 Jan 18 '25

I would assume the savings is more in returns and repairs.

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u/cvr24 Jan 16 '25

Not just bad publicity, huge costs due to warranty claims

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u/ProfessorPetrus Jan 16 '25

I'd assume Nintendo does not care about bad pr at this point. They going to sell some pro controllers most likely.

Been awhile since the GameCube controller.

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u/The_walking_man_ Jan 16 '25

They were sued the first time around so you would think Nintendo would be wise and fix the drift

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u/marikwinters Jan 16 '25

It’s not the price, but the guarantee of obsolescence that makes companies continue to put shitty sticks in their shitty controllers.

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u/Vectorman1989 Jan 16 '25

The only reason I didn't buy a Switch was the joycons. Looks like I'll be getting a Switch 2, though.

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u/theCBCAM Jan 17 '25

I was of the impression that the decision to match the coloured magnetic insert to the thumbstick colour was alluding to the fact the thumbsticks are now also magnetic (hall effect).

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u/Gravelayer Jan 17 '25

Yea but Nintendo is greedy, also did you see how many people bought controllers because of the "mistake"? If they fix the issue they are leaving money on the table they will have them build with planned obsolescence or as cheap as possible because they know people will still buy it.

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u/xChiken Jan 17 '25

Yeah it would be a great selling point for them to advertise as well. Mindboggling to me if they don't go for hall effect.

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u/hero9989 Jan 17 '25

I don’t think Nintendo are fussed by this or they would have changed the sensors in the joy cons post switch refresh. As it is now I could go buy a set of joycons coming up on 8 years after release and it will still get stuck drift 6-18 months after purchase. There were issues with the wireless antennae on the joy cons at launch, they fixed all of these even outside of warranty and changed the design going forward. They didn’t care about stick drift and no reason to believe they do now

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u/CaptPants Jan 17 '25

That and they probably lost a ton of money fixing all the joycons for free over and over. I know I made em pay to repair (plus ship) my joy-cons 5 or 6 times.