Every Terrible Pricing Decision Nintendo Is Making With the Switch

March is going to be expensive
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In a perfect world, you’ll never lose, damage, or completely ruin your Joy-Con controllers, and as such, will never need to buy another set. Unfortunately, this isn’t a perfect world, and chances are that during the lifespan of the Nintendo Switch, there’s going to be a fair share of players who need to pick up a fresh set. This is where Nintendo stumbles in the price tag region again.

To replace just one of those bite-sized controllers, you’re looking at $49.99, with a pair setting you back $79.99. While this will hopefully not be a necessary purchase for all players, it does seem a little extreme. Considering you can pick up a DualShock 4 which has rumble, a touch pad, internal speaker, and light bar for $45.99, the pricing does come across on the steep side. Hopefully, the pricing of the Joy-Con will drop once there’s a steady supply of them out in the wild, but for anyone who suffers from an early Joy-Con casualty, the cost is really going to sting.


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