$80 digital / $90 physical games are a pricing disaster. $70 games were already problematic but there are alternatives there, discounts (buy a couple months later), game pass if you want to play day 1. Both options aren't available in Switch 2.
Next to that, Nintendo games don't look as expensive to make as mo-capped, fully voiced sprawling detailed open worlds with the latest rendering techniques. And they aren't, BotW and TotK have an estimated budget of $120 million, sold 34m / 21.5m, at $60 that's 3.3 billion revenue. Nah Nintendo isn't greedy to raise the price, BotW now going to be $80 for Switch 2)
So Nintendo jumping ahead in raising prices is not a good look. The console price is defendable although we still need to see the real world performance (and whether the price will go up more)
However the timing is the biggest disaster here. The hardcore fans will buy it regardless, Switch 2 will be sold out at launch. However by the end of the year people simply won't have the money left to buy Switch 2 and $80 games. Not Nintendo's fault, but the timing couldn't be worse.
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