A Lower price isn't expected. For the life of switch 1, the console retail price never dropped. To sweeten the deal (in the US), they only bundled a game, gave a free Nintendo Switch Online subscription, or around 3-4 years after launch, a black friday sale might knock $5-@20 off.

And with the RAM thing and flash storage shortage, price for switch 2 is expected to potentially increase.

Although, around two years after launch, which would be 2027, Nintendo might offer a new cheaper model like the Lite, but the Lite is strictly handheld, lacks the hardware to output video & it cannot dock.

If you didn't have a Switch 1, Switch 2 can play switch 1 games, and switch 1 had heavy hitters, Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, if you like a shooter, Splatoon 3 is excellent. Other genres that are popular, but I'm not into - Xenoblade, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Fire Emblem. I don't play turn based stuff, although Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle was pretty darn good.

Nintendo in recent years mostly prefers not to reveal games until around 6 months before release. We know Splatoon Raiders (a single player game) is coming in 2026, and 2026 is Zelda's 40th anniversary, rumor has been that there's going to be a modern remake of Zelda Ocarina of Time, but nothing has been announced yet. Around late January-February, or maybe March, Nintendo tends to reveal some upcoming games by a Direct or possibly a trailer drop.

I think the general expectation is that its going to get more expensive as this RAM and silicon shortage gets worse, Playstation 5 and xbox series already increased their prices. But that does depend on what country you are in. Black Friday had small discounts across europe due to overstocking, but not US where demand is higher.

Did you get a switch 1? If not then switch 2 is an amazing purchase as you have 8 years of switch 1 games to get stuck into, many of which have upgrades for the sw2 making it the best place to play them. Do you have other consoles? If so you probably won't care about all the high quality 3rd party games coming to sw2 like cyberpunk, street fighter 6, ff7r and resident evil 9, but it will be the best place to play these games portably. If you had a sw1 and played all the games, but not gotten a sw2, probably the most reason to hold back as there does not seem to be many killer apps yet, Mario Kart World is great, but not as good as 8DX, Donkey Kong Bananza is incredible, but its 1 game. Kirby DLC is good not great, Kirby Air Riders is great, but niche, hyrule warriors is great, but niche. Pokemon ZA and Metroid prime 4 are good, but are fine on sw1. I love the sw2 for larger screen and better controllers but could see why someone would hold back if they games they want arent there yet, but as someone who uses switch as primary console, its a no brainer.

If you like a first person or third person shooter, Splatoon 3 is excellent. Turf War is the main attraction, but after a while, Salmon Run became my favorite mode. I've been playing Salmon Run fairly steady since Splatoon 2. Don't get splatoon 2 for online play, it's hard to get matches since most everyone moved on to Splatoon 3.

Have you tried Rocket League? I don't like free to play games or sports games, but I have loved Rocket League - I got it back when it was a paid game, before they went free to play. I still play it. There's a ton of depth, it's skill based. (if you get it, disable camera shake and weather effects for better game performance)(first time you boot it up, it will ask to make an account for the cross platform save structure, but you can just use your existing nintendo account login to sign in) Try the tutorial. Casual 3v3 matches you with an array of skill levels, so you may see some crazy skills, but the teams still aim to be even-ish skill-wise, but Casual can show you what's possible. If you prefer to stick wtih your own skill level, play Ranked, it's focused on keeping you with similar skill level players.

If you want another game very similar to BotW, Tears of the Kingdom is a no brainer.

I personally think that Smash Ultimate and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe are probably the two best multiplayer games on the Switch 1.

Does it work fine with just a normal hdmi cord? You can see if the tv has an update or if unplugging the tv from the wall for a few minutes resets the tv.

Unfortunately thats just how the switch 2's screen is...
It has a pretty poor response time so frames kinda linger and thats what you're seeing with the ghosting. Digital Foundry has a video pointing it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQ5CMfFc7c&t=747s

You can still get vouchers and use them on a S1 game + purchase the upgrade. I’ve found that to be the most cost effective way when possible. 

Any "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" game is defined as being the Switch 1 game + the Upgrade Pack. If you directly buy a Switch 2 version of such a game, you're still really getting those parts and can still use the game on Switch 1.

The only difference among all possibilities (Switch 1 card + upgrade, all digital, Switch 2 card) would be load times, and the difference would vary by game.

Switch 2 games do show up under virtual game cards of their linked accounts on Switch 1; you can explicitly hide these.

Additional consoles show up on the website too ( https://accounts.nintendo.com/portal/console )

And any linked emails are alerted when a new console is added.

For kids, you should be able to tackle most of these before anyone notices.

The only benefit the switch offers is built-in portability. Don't want to play on a TV anymore? Just pick up the system and go

Games WILL absolutely look and run better on PS5, especially the FF7 remake games.

However playing handheld mode would require a PlayStation Portal, but even that is limited to using your internet connection to stream games from the PS5 to its screen. It cannot run game locally on its own hardware. Not to mention it's ~$200

No.

Online/lan functionality limits you to 2 players per console, so you max out at 6.

Zelda Breath of the Wild

Mario Odyssey

Other good ones to start with;

Pikmin 3 or 4 (both have free demos)

Animal crossing new horizons

Nintendo doesn't even take public bug reports anymore, let alone development suggestions.

You basically have to run a whole social media campaign to promote an idea/game just to get their attention.

Or as Picano mentioned, spend an absurd amount of money on stock and become an investor, travel to Japan and try to get a seat at their quarterly investors meeting (though I believe questions have to be submitted ahead of time now, no more hot seat investors)

Nope.

You can try, but unless you speak Japanese and are a board member / investor, it's unlikely.

Yeah, it works without motion controls. Just keep in mind that you won't be able to collect Star Bits with motion (you'll need to walk into them or touch them on the screen if you play handheld). Also, you can spin with a Y button instead of shaking a Joy-Con.

That's pretty weird. Wouldn't be surprised if it's tariff related nonsense with different manufacturing countries over the lifespan of the Switch 1. (Also, I didn't hear anything about stopping Switch 1 production yet. Standalone official docks have always been a little hard to come by though.)

An OLED dock would be fine. Don't know your specific mod setup, but I believe one of the later system updates was required for compatibility with the OLED dock.

Personally I wouldn't mess with any third party ones, but it's been a long time since I've heard cries of bricking. Just be sure to check out all the reviews if you go this route.

The pro 2 is the only switch 2 controller with wireless audio support. Every other available controller has to be used wired to transmit audio to its headphone jack.

The other problem is that neither solution allows for Mic audio. The system simply doesn't support its transmission over Bluetooth.

A dedicated wireless headset with its own little USB dongle would be the simplest solution for speaker and mic support, and would allow you to get a cheaper wireless controller since you don't have to worry about a audio jack anymore.

Like these;

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Joysticks-Controller-PC-Remappable-vibration/dp/B0D6BF69X4/-

https://hyperx.com/products/hyperx-cloud-jet-wireless-gaming-headset

This headset should work according to some reddit posts. It includes a USB dongle for 2.4ghz wireless, and you just plug that into the dock.

Game cartridges. You can slide them in and they stay relatively secure.

What were you doing when the error popped up?

It is listed in an error database,

165 - Spsm module

165 0001 - PmControl dispatched request timed out.

I don't know what SP means (power state?), but SM is a service manager. This appears to be (one of) the initial power checks for switching from handheld to docked mode.

Pmcontrol definitely would be power management, sounds like the system wasn't correctly docked or perhaps just had a hiccup when docked and couldn't confirm the immediate switch to docked mode

I don't think it's anything to worry about.

If the nintendo support site doesn't have a page for the code, you'd have to contact nintendo support to ask what the code means. If google is correct, the console got stuck in sleep mode or had a connection error, and says to force a reboot by holding power for 13 seconds, and make sure the console is updated, and that's in line for the support page of a similar code 2165-1001.

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I don't believe there's a way you can polish it out in a way that will improve it's appearance. Putting a tempered glass screen protector on may help hide some fine scratches, but I'm not sure will improve your scenario. If you want the scratched area gone, the screen would need to be replaced.

A tempered glass screen protector is a good idea day one for any handheld switch since tempered glass has better scratch resistance than the factory screen.