OctoAori20

Welp. Said a while ago that I wasn't intent on getting it. But... Darn it, as "eh" as I was about Splatoon Island at first, the second I saw Shiver and her new outfit in the game, and how cool it looks... Just when I thought I was out on this, they keep pullin' me back in.

Well... Can't say I'm surprised that the launch of this console turned out to be an easily-avoidable blunder. I dislike saying it and it sorta makes me sad to say so, but... ...I very well may have mentally called it, what with the hardware and software pricing, the TOS, the "We'll brick your console if you do this thing!", the day one patch... Yeah, this had and still has "laughable red flag disastrous blunder" written all over it. I'd be shocked if Doug Bowser and even Furukawa even keep their jobs. I sense that heads are going to roll and they'll have to replace them, hopefully not with a former turd from EA and an *accountant* of all people...!

Well... I'm pretty annoyed and disgusted. An individual in my family decided to pre-order a launch day Switch 2 when I explicitly and CLEARLY spelt it out to them NOT to do so and to wait months for the all but inevitable price drop. It irks me when people do such things... Makes me go "...Really? And you didn't think to approach me to ask for my permission or lack thereof on this?..."

Let's just hope Furukawa comes to his senses and, fingers crossed, lowers the price.

And where did that get them? A massive online backlash. It's so apparent that Doug Bowser was such a poor hiring choice for Nintendo of America.

Raising the price would basically be ensuring that the console rots on shelves and we'd end up with a semi-Wii U situation. The way I see it, we're very much in a 3DS-style situation, truth be told. If they dropped it around, say, $350 and the games weren't $80 USD (darn near $100 CAD), then there would never have been such a strong negative reaction to the pricing of it all.