The Switch 2 is in trouble IMO

[Shadow1980]

Nintendo: Doomed since 1889

Listen, inflation is a thing. And not just a recent thing. It's always existed.  I remember a time when $400 was an absolutely outrageous price that few people could afford. You want to talk about expensive. These were expensive consoles by the standards of their day:

 

Both systems released for $400. Adjusted for inflation, the Neo Geo was $937 (for the basic "Silver System" SKU) while the Saturn was $838. $400 was once enough to kill a system. Oh, and the Neo Geo's games cost way more than those of its 16-bit contemporaries, typically retailing for $200, well beyond the $50-70 that was the norm for 16-bit consoles and equal to the launch price of the SNES ($463 in current dollars). Again, this is in early 90s dollars.

By time 2013 rolled around, the purchasing power of the dollar had declined enough to where $400 for the PS4 was considered downright reasonable by most.

Adjusted for inflation, the Switch 1's launch price is just under $400. The PS4's was $547, and the PS5's was $490 for the digital SKU and $613 for the disc SKU. So, the Switch 2's launch price is hardly outrageous. It's a much more sophisticated console than its predecessor with more bells & whistles.

As for the games, except for Wii titles the adjusted price of most games prior to 2014 was over $80. Like I said in another thread, I paid $70 for N64 games back in 1998 when I was making only $5.40 an hour. You're not getting stiffed, people. Everyone just got used to the $60 standard because game prices didn't keep up with inflation and that price point was the norm for everything except Wii games from 2006 to Oct. 2020.

So, whenever I hear people complain about the price of video games, my reaction is typically this:

In any case, while I doubt the Switch 2 will sell as well as the Switch 1, I think it should sell at minimum at least 120M units. It's not going to flop. The pricing is not unreasonable, and isn't some killer like the Saturn's launch price was. If anything is a threat to the Switch's sales potential, it's not $80 games. It's the trade war America's Dumbass-in-Chief started.