What will be the price of Switch 2?

[Norion]

Norion said:

Mar1217 said:

The prices in Japan haven't moved in any significant way since the initial MRSP was announced. The inflation of last years and Yen depreciation to USD hasn't changed that. No reason to believe they would suddenly partake in the same strategy as Sony and Microsoft, albeit I do think at a slighter difference in price, but they are not gonna forsake one of their top market to get an equivalent exchange rate in this economy.

I asked about the two SKU part but for what you said there's a difference between them not increasing the price of a console that launched a few years before those issues occurred and launching a completely new console in this new environment. Unless they're fine with selling it at either a loss or a tiny profit in Japan the increase there will need to be significant. I don't think they'll go wild with it but with the current exchange rate they'd need to price it at 55k yen to nearly match it in dollars so even 50k Yen would still make it relatively cheap there unless the Yen improves enough by Spring next year.

So there wasn't two SKUs as I expected but it did get a relatively big price increase in Japan going from 30k yen to 50k though Japan is still getting a fantastic deal here since it'd need to be at least 65k yen to be in line with other regions. The Switch 2 would for sure decline a lot at that price though so it makes sense.