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irstupid on 13 February 2017
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potato_hamster said:
irstupid said:

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.

I don't think anyone is reasonably defending Nintendo.

Everyone knows that companies make their big dollars selling accessories for exuberant prices. The pointing out of "two wrongs don't make a right" was not defending, just proof that Nintendo is not some outlier. All companies grossly overcharge accessory prices, whether they are in the gaming business, cell phone business, tv business, ect. (I mean heck, go into a Best Buy and purchase a new TV. Then watch the salesmen try to convince you how the $100 HDMI monster cables are the ones you need). Or buy a new phone in a verizon store and go and look at the rack of accessories and their prices.

No one is defending Nintendo, we are just saying why make a big deal out of nothing new.