Who is the most money grubbing console maker in the industry?

[maxleresistant]

sc94597 said:

maxleresistant said:

But now? The switch is by far the most expensive piece of hardware there is. Yes it's also a handheld, but handhelds sold at more than 199$ always failed, and as a home console the Switch is 10 years behind.

So good luck selling that product at that price. It's going to be really difficult.

In inflation adjusted dollars the Switch is comparable to the Wii. In 2007 you'd be hard pressed to find a top-end gaming PC as powerful (all things considered) as the Switch, let alone home consoles. The best GPU's at the time had 1 GB of GDDR VRAM. Most GPU's only had 512 MB. And these were cards that cost $500. By the way, the PSP retailed at $250 when it first released (which is almost $300 today) and sold quite well. Not as well as the NDS, but still quite well. The same can be said for the 3DS (albeit with an immediate price drop.)

 

Inflation doesn't factor in a lot of important things. I could argue that at the same time, the price of tablets went down a lot, and so did components and manufacturing.

And that while the dollar went up 20%, the average salary clearly didn't, meaning that for the average consumer, 250 in 2006 was still cheaper than 299 in 2016.

So please, stop using that biased argument of the  inflation. It's just a cold and dry number, reality is more complexe, and if for many people, they feel that 300 bucks and 70/80 for a controller is too expensive, it's probably because it is.