Can Nintendo turn Switch 2's pricing disaster around? And how?

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Darashiva said:

I don't mind the price for the console itself, it's more or less in line with what I expected. Or at least the $450 price point would be, in Finland the current asking price for the Switch 2 is somewhere between 555 and 570 euros (or $620 - $637) depending on the outlet, which is quite frankly ridiculous and really puts me off from even considering getting the console.

Still, it's the game prices that I have the biggest problem with, because it's only going to serve as a precedent for everyone else to keep raising game prices as well if and when Nintendo gets away with it. It's much easier for other companies to follow suit once Nintendo shows that people are willing to accept 80-90 dollar game prices from one of the biggest players in the industry. The most egregious ones are the prices for Switch 2 versions of Switch games like Breath of the Wild and Kirby and the Forgotten Land, which feel like complete rip-offs at the prices they are listed.

Maybe things will change, but as things stand at the moment, I have zero interest in the console. The prices for both the system and its games have to come down quite significantly before I can justify buying one. Not that I'm in too much hurry either way, the main thing I'm worried, as mentioned above, is the precedent this sets for game pricing in general.

I don't know if anyone saw the video I shared in another thread from GameXPlain, but apparently it costs Nintendo at least $400 US to produce each Switch 2 system. Of course that doesn't excuse the prices of the software, it's not like it cost them half a billion dollars to make Donkey Kong Bananza.