| TheMisterManGuy said: Imagine this scenario. You're a Kyoto-based gaming corporation coming off of a massive success with your home/portable hybrid console with detachable controllers. A lot of hype is surrounding it's successor and so far everything is going well. The hardware is impressive, the games are impressive, even the price of the system is fairly affordable given the power. Everything is going well so far... Except for one problem. The biggest launch title you have, a Kart racer staring an Italian plumber, costs $80. And people don't find out about this until after your big presentation. And given that you haven't really said or shown anything so far to justify this high price tag, people are outraged. Demand on streams to "DROP THE PRICE", accusing you of being "greedy" and "anti-consumer". So your complete and utter failure to properly communicate pricing info to potential customers has now created a massive PR nightmare, and is dampening the hype of your new system. |
Its out of their hands.
Switch 2, is sold at break even point in Japan, ~335$.
Toss in 46% tariffs, and that's 490$ for just the cost of making the unit.
Then there is shipping, storage, stores that sell them wanting to make some profits selling them... ect.
Its out of their control. The 550$ is likely going to be something american consumers will have to live with.
The game prices? They could just lower it to 70$.
Like lets not kid ourselves, Nintendo did not spend 250-300$ million making Mario Kart World.
Probably a 1/3rd or so of that.
They don't need to sell it at 80$ to make back their money invested on that game.
Plus Mario Kart games sell really well, like they can basically expect 30million copies sold of it.
All Nintendo need to do, is go "price of console is 550$ because of tariffs".
Game is being set at 70$ in the US.... we're eating a small loss to offset tariffs on the game.
PR is turned around.
