Do You Have Nintndo Derangement Syndrome? The Nintendo Misinformation Thread

[Zkuq]

curl-6 said:

Zkuq said:

I could probably use a similar justification for a lot of things and still feel bad about the price. More importantly, I fully expect each Switch 2 console to be more profitable to Nintendo than each Switch console was at launch. If anyone has proper data on this, I certainly wouldn't mind being proven wrong though (the only result a very quick search yielded was a Reddit post that seemed unclear on whether the comparison was being made to the Swich 1 launch situation or its current situation).

The reality is that everything costs more now than it did 5+ years ago due to inflation, and Nintendo is not immune to that.

If they were charging like $599 for it that'd be one thing, but $450 isn't unreasonable for what you get and the current economic circumstances.

Yes. I'm sure there is a profitability metric that accounts for inflation, and my guess is that Switch 2 is significantly more profitable for Nintendo than the first Switch by that metric. If I recall correctly, the launch price of Switch 2 is higher than that of the first Switch, even when accounting for inflation. That's probably because of extra power, higher profits, or both, and until there's data to support another view, my guess is that there's a significant amount of higher profits there. Of course it's just a guess based on my hunch of the trends of luxury electronics, where prices just keep increasing despite past trends of decreasing prices. I strongly suspect that Nintendo is opportunistically following this trend. I'd love to research this more, but ultimately I don't care enough. I might get a Switch 2 once I get my backlog to a point where it makes sense, but it doesn't mean I'm happy about its price.