Slownenberg said:
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. |
This is the only retailer offering it for $399.99, largely because they're a niche retailer from the 80s that likely is carrying a small number of systems.
The system is not a "budget console" either, you're talking about something that can run high end current gen games like Assassin's Creed Shadows and the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem and Star Wars Outlaws ... like there's some serious horsepower under the hood of this hardware. $450 is an entirely reasonable price.
Nintendo doesn't control the global economy, it's not their fault people are struggling due to inflation stemming from a global pandemic. They made a pretty darn good system and are asking a reasonable price for that.
None of the portable PCs for under $400 are giving you the performance in high end games that the Switch 2 does, it's running games comparably or better than some $600-$800 hardware out there. This is probably the first time in the 3D graphics era that a portable game system can plausibly actually run the modern home console games of its era, everything prior to this, even things like the PSP were significantly behind being able to run the current console games of its time.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 22 December 2025
