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curl-6 on 23 April 2025
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Zippy6 said:
curl-6 said:

The Japanese price may seem low in terms its dollar equivalent, but that's cos the yen is very weak right now.

By Japanese standards it's not cheap; it costs 50% more than the Switch 1 for instance.

Yeah sure, but in comparison to other modern gaming hardware it's a bargain. PC hardware for example An RTX 4060 8GB has an RRP for 52,800 Yen, more than the Switch 2, where-as in the west the RTX 4060 8gb RRP was $299 to Switch 2's $449. Nintendo are offering a very good price on it in Japan while other companies aren't eating the cost of the weak Yen themselves, and probably losing quite a bit on each unit sold.

So yeah Switch 2 is by far the best value modern gaming option in Japan, nothing comes close to the affordability except previous generation consoles or a Series S (but no one wants that in Japan.)

Oh it's great value no doubt, but 50,000 yen is still (from what I can find on Google) around 10% of the average Japanese person's entire monthly salary, so far from cheap.