Consumer organizations create websites calling for boycott of Nintendo Switch 2!

Recently, the consumer rights organization "Game Consumer Rights Association" created a special website and launched a joint boycott of Nintendo's Switch 2 game consoles, protesting its suspected illusion of scarcity through misleading marketing and promoting overpriced console and game sales.

The organization accused Nintendo of artificially creating a tense supply atmosphere and using market means to manipulate market means to induce players to purchase hosts with "actual value far lower than the selling price", and criticized its behavior of raising the prices of hardware, games and subsequent maintenance services. The homepage of the website highlighted: "It's time to switch to a new gaming platform" and called on players to express their protest by choosing other platforms.

　　In its statement of purpose, the association stated that its goal is to "correct the corruption in the electronic game industry", and pointed out that the current 3A gaming field is deviating from players due to "greed and bloated". They stress that the fun of gaming should be "for everyone regardless of budget, nationality or lifestyle."

　　In addition, the organization will point the finger directly at Switch2, criticizing it for "artificially creating shortages and creating a sense of urgency to purchase", and said that the host "pushed up market prices, threatened the survival of physical media, controlled the digital ecology, manufacture planned scrap hardware, and even illegally caused the host to become bricks." It is reported that the organization plans to launch offline protests during the New York Comic Con and TGA Awards Ceremony.

　　"Game Consumer Rights Association" believes that as long as a sufficiently large-scale consumer voice is formed, the future pattern and economic model of the game industry can be reshaped. The FAQ section of the website pointed out that player protests have begun to show results, such as "Borderlands 4" and "Outside Worlds 2" have lowered their selling prices under public pressure.

The website also lists other efforts to curb market manipulation of gaming companies around the world, including Brazil's lawsuit against the user agreement that could lead to the bricking of the host, and the key fob discounts launched by Amazon in the UK to encourage physical game consumption.