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

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TheBlackNaruto said:
This is not a shot at you but why does it seem like a lot of people are deflecting for Nintendo ever since the Switch reveal....Heck a LOT of stuff cost the same adjusted for inflation....doesn't mean that those things are not expensive now a day though....

But YES the Switch is expensive....especially coming with no game. Then add in the fact that you can get 2 other systems that are more power and come WITH a game it becomes and issue. I think that is the issue with the price and while bringing the Wii into this wasn't it also CHEAPER than the other 2 when it came out. So you have to take the entire picture into perspective not just part of it that makes it look like the price of the Switch is fine....when it isn't. Just my opinion of course and again not a shot at you at all.

The trouble with inflation figures they are very generalised, the better guide would be manufacturing and parts costs comparisons and the amount of profit that companies may or may not make at the retail price point. You could have a product with the adjusted figures being the same but one gives a $30.00 profit and the other breaks even.