Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money?
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Depends on how much you’d want to use it, to be honest.
People balked at its price tag at launch, but it’s currently the cheapest entry point to gaming. It delivers better performance than the Steam Deck at nearly half the price, but the tradeoff is the closed ecosystem.
If there are key games you want to play on Switch 2 that are easy to get for less than MSRP, I’d say it’s worth it. If you want games that are also on every other platform and you have options that aren’t the Switch 2, no harm in saving your money. Probably not worth it for just 1 or 2 big titles right now. But it’s only been around for a little over a year so there will also certainly be more to look forward to down the road.
The only other factor is that hardware is continuing to get more expensive over time. Short of a major changes to global production/the AI bubble bursting, I wouldn’t count on that changing for a while yet. So there may also never be a cheaper time to get a Switch 2 than right now, especially when we know the price of the console will go up in just a couple months.