KLXVER said:
bonzobanana said:
I don't think you can group all Switch customers together. You will have those who are huge Nintendo fans and will get the system and games whatever the price. Then you have more laid back Nintendo fans who will buy when they think its a good time and value but are pretty sure to get one eventually. Then you get to the customers more difficult to convince, more casual gamers, perhaps lower disposable income or people who look for value in their purchases and these are the type of people that need more convincing. The wii u had a good launch but it went downhill from there rather than build up it's install base. Often one of the critical elements of a console launch is its seen to be a success so others feel safe in buying it. It's being launched at a time where world trade is in a strange place to say the least and the USA is the most important market to Nintendo. It feels to me what could have been a success story may well end up being a failure due to high tariffs and poor sales in the USA but hopefully I'm wrong.
I'm personally not interested in the Switch 2 to buy as only really do portable gaming on my phone but very interested to see how it all pans out as interested in the gaming industry. It feels like Nintendo are in a difficult situation. I'm curious why they are retailing the Switch 2 at such a low price in Japan, you wonder if they had done an analysis of the Japanese market and realised a higher price point would have failed there and been unacceptable. However they obviously feel other markets will accept this higher price point. There has been a huge drop in disposable income around the world and you wonder if this maybe a first for Nintendo releasing a console that is too good (ie. too expensive). |
Well the cheaper model of the Switch 2 in Japan is region locked. The regular region free one is like 470 dollars. |
That's just a commercial decision to stop people exporting the cheaper model to other countries in the world, there is no manufacturing cost difference. They realise people around the world would want the cheaper Japanese model so are preventing them buying it.
