| JackHandy said: Should have been the price at launch. |
This 1000000x over. it's pure greed. end of thread.
Switch 2 is already seeing weakening demand everywhere outside of Japan. Nintendo is handing over significant market share in Europe to Sony with the Switch 2, turning what was a decently strong market for the Switch into a weak market for the Switch 2, and suddenly PS5 sales are skyrocketing because Europeans realize the hyped up new Nintendo system is not what the Switch was so they may as well get the PS5. And we've all seen the horrendous US sales of the Switch 2 in November, granted in the US it's a combo of Nintendo's plethora of bad Switch 2 decisions as well as the deranged dictator in the US steering the country into the gutter.
But globally it's down to price and so far a complete lack of reasons (read: games) that make the system worth buying. Notice the one place the system is still doing extremely well and putting up Switch-level numbers is the one place where the system is actually affordable and ~$100 cheaper. If Nintendo execs were focused on the right things (the customer!) the Switch would still be doing booming numbers instead of sputtering everywhere outside of Japan.
$399 is a decent price for the system, and the absolute most it should ever cost. If it launched at $399, and with $60 digital and real physical games, I may have been tempted to buy it at launch back when it still seemed like it would be an awesome system. But after endless bad tone deaf decisions by Nintendo this year I simply have zero interest in picking the system up just because there are some retailers actually offering it at a decent price for the holidays.
