Slownenberg said:
lol yeah Switch is dominant in part because its 200/300/350. Notice how none of those numbers are anywhere near 450. Nintendo can easily decide to charge 450 sure, but they certainly wouldn't be selling a lot if they did, they'd kill off all the momentum the Switch has built for them. You say Japanese people don't give a damn about power....and then say Nintendo should charge 450. That's confusing lol. So you're saying Nintendo should charge 450 not because they are making a really high end system but just to massively overcharge their customers. wow. I don't think you should ever go into business haha. Despite what you apparently think, people don't generally "just pay happily" for things they are massively overcharged for, at least the masses don't. Rich people do, but there aren't tens of millions of rich people to buy a 450 Nintendo system as a status symbol lol. You're literally saying 450 is okay because Nintendo can just do what they had to do with the 3DS when 450 fails. whaaat??? Whyyyyyyy would they want to have to do that in the first place?!? I think its pretty obvious that's a situation they definitely don't want to duplicate, but you're specifically saying you want them to. so weird. Also nobody is paying 350 USD in 2023 for 2007 tech. No idea what you're even talking about there. Switch came out in 2017 with a 2015 chip. So I'm guessing you meant 2017 not 2007. Your whole comment could go under a course of "what not to do in business". lol at multiple people saying $450. Zero chance at that. Nintendo ain't stupid. Sure they would still have a big launch and a big holiday still, but they'd be hamstrung by general weak sales outside of holidays if they went that high. Even $399 is pushing it. At $450 they'd just have many millions of people waiting for like a $100 price cut before buying the system. They'd put themselves in the same position that they did with the 3DS, needing a big price cut within the first 12 months to not lose all momentum from the previous amazingly popular gen. Why do you all want Nintendo to suddenly make systems that aren't affordable? I'm so confused with this sentiment. Switch was affordable and great and popular. You want Nintendo to turn their back on that strategy to either rip off their customers or just to make next gen a bit more powerful (which also probably means bad battery life and therefore a much less portable system - I don't think anyone wants Switch 2 to turn into a Steam Deck) and you don't care that it would mean next gen would be much less popular? I don't get where some of your alls desire for an expensive Nintendo system comes from. There is neither a business need nor a market desire for an expensive Nintendo system. It would make zero sense for Nintendo to put out something that costs $450 unless their goal is to weaken their business. $450 either means ripping off their customers or a clunky non-portable portable like Steam Deck, and both of those options means low sales. Saying Nintendo should make a really expensive system is so random and against their entire business philosophy it's so weird some people on this site really want this to happen. It's like some of you have never paid any attention to how Nintendo operates and what makes them popular. |
I meant 2017, mistyped to 2007
Of course I don't want Switch (or any console for that matter) to be expensive. For me they could be sold for pennies, I would own every console if that was the case. What I want and what they will do and how the market will answer are entirely different things. Nintendo is already overcharging customers. 350 USD for a 2017 console? This is clearly overcharging. If what Nintendo wanted was to provide the least expensive hardware possible Switch would have been price cuted for year now. This have not happened yet, and likely will never happen
What Nintendo wants, and almost every company for that matter, it's to snatch every single cent they can from their customers. I'm merely stating they can go as far as 450 USD without letting behind any major part of their market. I voted for 400 USD which I believe will be the Switch 2 launch price, as they will only have one SKU. But I also believe they will release a more expensive SKU down the line for 450 USD and won't take too much time until the 450 SKU became the most popular
I mean, if you believe 26 USD more than Switch launch price adjusted to inflation is overcharging their userbase than sure lol
