Despite the initial positive reception of Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct on April 2nd, the price of their newest console, which is $449.99 if not bundled with the $80 Mario Kart World for a total of $499.99, has been the talk of the chat. I mean this literally, as I watched thousands of people voice concerns and make demands in the Nintendo Treehouse: Live chat on YouTube.

There was wave after wave of viewers screaming “DROP THE PRICE,” with stray islands of other phrases including, but far from limited to, ‘RAISE THE PRICE,” “keep saying drop the price whole stream,” “Hyped for Metroid Prime 4!,” and “brother we’re in a cost of living crisis and you’re making the console 500 dollars with a 100 dollar console and 90 dollar games.”

No matter how good Donkey Kong Bananaza or Metroid Prime 4: Beyond looked on-screen, pricing seems to be the only thing most chatters were interested in discussing. Here’s a few screenshots taken over 20 minutes, without pausing the chat or scrolling back through it:

People are unhappy with the price, and following the news of tariffs that threaten to make a bad economic situation worse, I don’t see that discontent changing soon. Video games can be an expensive hobby as is, so it’s understandable that audience members facing financial uncertainty can’t imagine stomaching the steep cost of Nintendo’s newest luxury. The Nintendo Switch 2 comes out on June 5th, so it won’t be long until it’s seen how many people take that plunge regardless.