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Soundwave on 03 April 2025
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PotentHerbs said:
Soundwave said:

This stuff never matters, people said this with the first Switch too "OMG! How can it be the same price as the PS4! Don't they know Sony has XYZ games!". 

Unless you can put a PS5 in your backpack or coat pocket and play it anywhere you want and it has Mario Kart and Donkey Kong and Metroid and all the other Nintendo IP staples, then a PS5 is not doing anything. The PS5 doesn't even stop regular Switch 1 sales let alone Switch 2 and the Switch OLED at $350 is only $50 less than a PS5 Digital Edition. 

The early adopter crowd and Nintendo's IP fans are going to drive initial Switch 2 sales, they're not in the market for a PS5, they either already have one (early adopter crowd to whom PS5 is by now old news) or are never buying one. 

PS5 sales don't need to take away from the Switch 2 to cause havoc. Nintendo is already getting slammed with bad PR for this price hike. Having more expensive games than a high end, premium console, will invite different comparisons.

It's not exactly the same as the Switch having games at the same price as PS4 titles. 

Some people whining on the internet is not really getting "slammed". $70 and even $80 games is inevitable for everyone, people who are so shocked by that don't understand a goddamn thing about what's been happening in the industry and how high budgets are getting and also probably don't understand inflation as a concept either. 

Movie tickets used to be $8 flat fifteen, twenty years ago. Shit changes. Today it's $20 in some places. Pricing for most entertainment has gone higher, gamers just think that shouldn't apply to them ever and think magical fantasy economics where games and hardware forever stay within the same pricing range as they were in like 2005 should exist forever. It's just ridiculous. 

It's also not 2005 in the sense that the vast majority (probably upwards of 70%) of Nintendo's audience are adults now and the pricing will reflect that too. When you go into a LEGO store and see like $300-$400+ price tags for a lot of their premium "toy" sets I think most people can understand those products are meant for adults, not really children even though a kid can enjoy it too.