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potato_hamster on 13 February 2017
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irstupid said:
potato_hamster said:

It's almost as if I covered that in my original post, but allow me to expand on that.  I haven't exactly torn apart a dock yet, but I don't think adding the power adapter, and a simple power managment solution to transform the incoming voltage into whatver the USB-C uses , and powering the USB-C connector is an expensive endeavour. Based on my experience working on my own little projects, this actually quite cheap. You're talking less than $5 in off-the shelf components at retail cost, and Nintendo would be paying far less than that.

The reason this topic got bumped was me earlier today.

I posted about seeing an article (also saw on amazon today deals) abou the PS$ stand being on sale form $26 to $16 dollars.

So lets round up for tax. Sony was selling a plastic STAND for $30. The stand did NOTHING that this dock can do. It has no electronics, no cords, no nothing. just a chunk of plastic to hold the PS4 upright. And Sony charges $30 for it.

What do you suppose that costs sony to make? 50 cents?

And what did I say in my reponse to you? Two wrongs don't make a right. Just because Sony is overcharging for a stand doesn't mean that it's acceptable for Nintendo to overcharge for anything. I've been around long enough to remember Sony taking a bunch of shit for selling the original PS3 without an HDMI cable. Nintendo is taking shit for this because almost every single accessory for the Switch is 20-50% more expensive than what many consumers would consider to be fair prices, especially considering the price of similar accessories from Sony and Microsoft.

TL:DR: If Nintendo was selling a Switch stand for $30, and pretty much all of their other accessories were considered to be reasonably priced, no one would really give a shit.