I dig the price, form factor and concept, but I feel like they released this a bit too early. Battery life is not going to be good enough.

There really isn't a contemporary device in which to compare. 

True, which just means that in that sense it's valuable and not overpriced.

Production costs is the other thing we can look at. "Thanks to a new report from Japanese firm Fomalhaut, we now know that the manufacturing cost for the Nintendo Switch is roughly $257"

So the Switch at launch cost $257 to make and was sold at $299, clearly not overpriced. 

Nope, I know how much tech components etc cost. You measure it however you want cupcake. I salute you on your defensive though, gotta bring in a Sony product which nobody was even discussing (For the record, that was a con as well)

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I wouldn't got that far. People buy Macs and Iphones.

I guess really there isn't a singular definition for "overpriced".

If people are buying it, it's not overpriced for the market, but if the price is ridiculous high compared to it's production costs it's overpriced compared to it's value.

I don't care how many people buy the $999 Mac Pro stand, it probably costs apple $100 max to make, it's overpriced.

So there's overpriced in terms of raw value, overpriced in terms of market acceptance and overpriced in terms of functional value. So it depends which one you're going for I guess.

Well this should pretty much completely phase out the 3DS then.. Was surprised not to hear about any sort of apparent improved hardware, even the screen display or the like. Colors look pretty blah.. Grey looks ok I guess, though they should just release a black and Wii-style slick white along with it. I like that they added an actual d-pad finally. Now can we get separate joycons with a real d-pad? As a Switch owner there's absolutely no point in this for me, but I guess I could see how it could draw in some new buyers. 

Did they really improve the battery, it just seems to have the same battery but because it is smaller and use less features it needs less of the battery. Not that I am complaining but an improved battery would have been welcome.

No, using production costs to justify how high the price may have been is quite valid.

Using production costs to argue that it should have a lower price would fit more in-line with your argument and examples.

Regardless of any perceived value, at a very least, companies are frequently advised to sell their products expensive enough to recoup production costs. Selling at a loss typically is only done in order to encourage sales and hope those losses are recouped via software. Then, any additional MSRP above production cost comes down to perceived value.

Excellent move by Nintendo! I love that it has a dpad! The price is great!

I would to try to sell mine (original Switch) and buy one if it could connect to a tv.