Global Hardware 4-8-17

[Tmfwang]

KLAMarine said:

Tmfwang said:

In Norway (In Europe) it's been in stock at ALL major retailers for some time now, doesn't seem to be too popular.

source: https://www.prisjakt.no/product.php?p=3154603

It's no surprise there is stock: if I understand things correctly, the cheapest Switch on that page costs 3545 krone which is about 534 dollars as of this post!

https://www.bing.com/search?q=3545+krone+dollars&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=3545+krone+dollars&sc=0-18&sk=&cvid=19A08BE056F043A4844AE76544FFC677

Compared to a vanilla PS4's price of 1490 or 1990 krone (225 or 300 dollars respectively) ( https://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=1707#rparams=ss=ps4 ) a Switch is very expensive.

 

Now I'm no economics major but I'm going to say things in high demand tend to fetch a higher price than usual and that's something we're seeing in the US for example where Switch units are marked up by about 100 or so dollars as of this post, sometimes even more.

 

Maybe the laws of supply and demand work differently in Norway? What say you Tmfwang?

 

 

Well, 3545NOK equals 422USD actually :) That is including taxes :)

Its actually not that bad :) Same price as the PS4 was at launch :)

As you can maybe see as well, the Switch is the 3rd (on prisjakt.no) most popular product on prisjakt, if that means anything.