Famitsu Sales: Week 34, 2024 (Aug 19 - Aug 25)

[Mar1217]

haxxiy said:

jvmkdg said:

Sony shit by increasing the price of the ps5 in japan, consoles should drop in price and not rise, we live in dark times inflation is so high. This makes me think about the price of the switch 2, with the cost to produce hardware so high I don't think the switch 2 will cost less than 500 dollars, unless nintendo wants to lose money on hardware to win in the game but they don't usually do that.

Some of the Switch SKUs might have sold at a loss in Japan at some point. Imagine it takes 140 and 180 USD to sell the Lite and the standard model at a profit, for instance. These would be some narrow margins at current exchange rates.

The question is how much will the new hardware increase the BoM and what sort of profit or loss Nintendo wants to take there. Hard to think of it selling for less than 55000 JPY as things stand right now. That's 80% more expensive than the launch Switch (and perhaps not even enough to break even).

How is it too hard to believe that they wouldn't keep it close to the previous MSRP for the next generation when they haven't budge an increase during the whole Switch life in their own country ?

Japan is too important of a territory for Nintendo to lose by gouging it's home userbase like Sony and Microsoft did.

A potential 400USD Switch 2 would likely be a 45K-50K Yen at worst I believe.