Adjusted for inflation, Switch costs the same as launch as Wii (in US)

[fleischr]

Bandorr said:

fleischr said:

 

Value is relative.

Some people like a bonus controller. Not perfect, but convenient and usable enough for a quick coop session of Tetris, Bomberman or something else. I can tell that's not you or you.

All I'm saying is that price is pretty much the same. Scientific fact.

No you are saying far far more than that. You are trying a backdoor approach to arguing that "$250 = $300" and "no one has a problem with $250, so no one should have a problem with $300".

Otherwise your post would have left out everything under the link. The attempt at justifying that controller = game.

The fact you said more - is proof that you are saying more. Scientific fact.

There's nothing 'backdoor' about it. $250 in 2006 is the same as $300 today.

Of course in 2006 you could spend on $200 or probably less on a PS2 which had a more conventional controller and easily better library than Wii at the time - not unlike the PS4 today. At that time, with PS3 at $600 -- getting a PS3 seemed like a really far off proposition.

The PS2 still sold great in 2006 by the way. Success was not mutually exclusive between the two platforms.

No one bought the Wii because it was more powerful than the PS2. And they didn't even buy it because it was cheaper than PS3/360. They bought it for its own value proposition.