"Nintendo switch is too expensive"

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onionberry said:

vivster said:

No it's not. The cost of the product is irrelevant to the consumer. That's why good console manufacturers take a loss on their hardware.

The Switch costs $300 because Nintendo said so and not because it needs to be that price. And people complain because they think that is above their value estimation. It's easy to understand, really.

lol good luck running a bussines, you want profit. "good console" manufacturer like sony sell consoles at lost because they earn profits from third party games and online services, something that Nintendo doesn't have. Nintendo needs to make a profit from consoles and sell the first party games, because that's the core of their business, unlike sony and microsoft. You can't say the value is irrelevant to to consumer because that is not how it works, it's a simple thing and in one basic business class they teach you just that. And thank good that Nintendo doesn't overprice their consoles like other business overprice their products (NIKE) They sell you a device that cost what is worth and enough for them to make profit.

Your whole argument rely on the knowledge of how much the actual console costs to manufacture. 

But you have no idea how much it costs. So your argument, while not completly wrong since a product must be priced in accordance with how much it costs to manufacture, is also based on assumptions. You come off as being [overly] apologetic. Because you have no idea how much it costs Nintendo to manufacture the Switch, and how big their margin is.

Also, people here are customers. Saying "good luck running a business" when you yourself are a customer just like everyone else... It's really something to see someone take the side of a corporation in the manner that you do instead of the side of the customers.