Five reasons why I am not bothered by Nintendo's Switch 2 hardware and software pricing

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PotentHerbs said:

firebush03 said:

tbf it’s not as though the cost for maintaining PSPlus has risen with inflation. The cost of developing and mass producing games has, however, and especially for Nintendo, who is jumping from a PS3Pro to a PS5Lite; hence, raising the price of hardware and software is a bit more appropriate. Not to say that I condone Nintendo’s decision (I am not happy to see Nintendo engaging in greedy predatory business behaviors), though you’re point here falls a little flat.

Sure, PS+ may not be the best example, but Sony has done the same for their software/hardware, and a few users argued inflation to justify it, but got dog piled for it. Nearly 20+ users have agreed with Rol's initial post. 

Anyone arguing inflation for any PS price hike in the past few years didn't get even a fraction of that support. 

If you look at the timeline of inflation in my original post - Austria's development of inflation rates is similar to a lot of other countries' - then you see that there wasn't an uptick until after 2020. That's why inflation doesn't quite work as justification for Sony hardware and software released in 2020.

The actual reasons for Sony's price hikes would be that the PS5 has better technology relative to its time of release than the PS4 had, and ever-increasing development costs and times for video games on the software side. But that's the typical gamer paradox: Always asking for better looking games, and always being surprised that that costs companies more money; costs which they then must pass on to the consumer in order to make things work.