| Kyuu said: PS5 is more expensive in Japan than in the US. Switch 2 is much cheaper in Japan than in the US. But I was told the weak yen explained and justified Sony's price hikes lol. |
PS5 prices in Japan are reflex of poor software sales. I'm sure Switch 2 will be sold at loss (I'm expecting a loss of 70-80 USD per unit) because Nintendo expect to recover the costs in few years selling games. By a significant margin most of the Nintendo software sales are from first party titles with high profit margins
Sony needs to sell many times more games than Nintendo per console to have similar profit from Software. In reality console to software tier ratio for PS5 is so bad Sony didn't have a choice but to increase the price until they sold the console at profit. The way it were doing each PS5 unit sold was actually a liability instead of an asset lol
