It's a bad thing the Switch isn't being sold at a loss?

[vivster]

RolStoppable said:

vivster said:

This is a semantic problem. Of course it is "ok" for the company, they can do whatever the hell they want. However the consumer had made his voice heard that he doesn't find the price "ok" at all. That's what it's about. No matter what a company does, it's absolutely fair to criticize. The market situation does not absolve from criticism and if any company needs more of it to get their act together it's Nintendo.

This thread says it's not a point worth criticising, which apparently a lot of people disagree with seeing the backlash to the price.

Do you know how surveys work? And that one of the things to avoid is a biased sample? If you use VGC opinions to measure what is fair and what is not, you are doing it wrong.

The best indicator we have right now is Kimishima's statement to investors that the initial response to Switch was more positive than anticipated, so production will be increased. And while we don't know exact numbers for the originally planned production capacities, we can safely assume that they were above failure status, because otherwise it wouldn't make sense for Nintendo to launch a new console.

What this means is that consumers find the price okay, otherwise they would opt to wait until the price comes down before they purchase a Switch.

I would argue that people who buy the Switch at its launch price are the minority of all LT Switch buyers. Hence, the majority thinks the price does not match the value right now.

You say gaming forum users are the minority and then base the counter argument on a different minority group, early adopters.