I think the price is a little high but thing the complaints are about the whole price of entry. $70 for a Pro Controller, if you want another set of joycons with the dock it is $110. A lot of the games shown to be coming from 3rd parties are from 2014 or earlier. And some of the launch games aren't actually full large studio $60 games but games like I am Setsuna which is from a smaller studio and sales for $40. And Nintendo still is silent on the Virtual Console and they want us to pay for online play but don't have any of the popular games announced that people typically pay for online play for like Battlefield, Overwatch, Call of Duty etc. And don't give you free games to keep as long as you are subscribed. In other words Nintendo isn't keeping up with industry standards even when they try to make one step forwards they make 2 steps back .
To follow up, this also makes it so if you were considering a purchase, and you saw it in stock, you would want to buy knowing that it's a rare item.The Wii sold out and everyone went crazy for it. Same with the NES Classic.Maybe it turns out the quality of the console doesn't mean anything. All that matters is that you sell out and everyone freaks out over how rare and exclusive and cool in is. That's how you make $$$.
The console price itself is fine, i personally think paid online will pay off in the long run.
I do have some concerns, though, many are likely unsubstantiated; one the 32 GB storage, expanding that will be costly since Nintendo stupidly refuses to support USB HDDs, which I remind people, are only a fraction of the cost of micro SD cards. A 512 GB SD card is ridiculously expensive and several times more than a HDD the same size. Will this not be an issue?The Wii sold out and everyone went crazy for it. Same with the NES Classic.
The Switch is supposed to be a hybrid though, so supporting USB HDDs wouldn't make very much sense since you wouldn't be able to take those with you when you undock it.I do have some concerns, though, many are likely unsubstantiated; one the 32 GB storage, expanding that will be costly since Nintendo stupidly refuses to support USB HDDs, which I remind people, are only a fraction of the cost of micro SD cards. A 512 GB SD card is ridiculously expensive and several times more than a HDD the same size. Will this not be an issue?
xb1 and ps4 have it too, nobody complains about that. Besides, nobody is making you buy online.
Well PS4, Xbox One have Battlefield, Overwatch, Call of Duty, Final Fantasy XIV and on and on and on and you get free games "TO KEEP" as long as you have the subscription so there is a difference. Even EA isn't completely selling out for Switch as they said a FIFA is coming to Switch but didn't even get it a number so it could be like typical Nintendo third party one FIFA game now and not another one or one again in a few years, doesn't look like they are going to be doing it yearly. Also you would think Switch would be a huge chance for multimedia playback with Netflix, Youtube etc but not a single word from Nintendo about any sort of multimedia playback. Nintendo not once has done online right so that is why people are worried about paying for it. Also all the online stuff is going to be done via smart device, it sounds like possibly even voice chat so that doesn't sound like a great thing to pay a monthly fee for when I have to own another device to make "Their online service" WORK.
But its a hybrid.....
There aren't Nintendo games available for PC though.
