Nintendo quarterly sales update (To September 30th 2022) Switch 114.33 million

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trunkswd said:

aTokenYeti said:

https://twitter.com/nesbot_feed/status/1589922568252936192?s=46&t=_3TW8qvQ96Y_-CoCjgW93g

Nintendo is apparently considering price increases for the Switch. Absolutely crazy this late in its life cycle

That is nuts and a terrible idea. A price cut sometime in 2023 makes more sense. A price I could see is something like this:

• OLED: $300
• OG: $250
• Lite: $170

It's not nuts in the current environment of the highest inflation rates since the existence of commercial video games. At this point in time virtually nobody's surprised nor really upset that products get more expensive, because so many have already increased in price. On the other hand, expecting price cuts in 2023 is pretty nuts, because the world isn't going to go back to the old prices, i.e. deflation. What we'll see at best in 2023 is that the inflation rates return to their normal of 1-2% per year instead of the current madness of ~10% in Europe specifically.

More likely than price cuts are adjustments to all SKUs by adding a bit more value to them while maintaining the current prices. Due to Switch's age, I'd expect any possible price increase of the hardware to go hand in hand with one game being bundled as a standard practice, because that's the best way to bump the perceived value of a console package.