Was Nintendo right to opt out of the graphics arms race?

[Leynos]

Soundwave said:

Chrkeller said:

Umm...  it is $450...  WTF?

The Mario Kart bundle which is like 95% of the Switch 2 inventory is $499.99 MSRP. Maybe you can find a discount here and there, but that's not the MSRP. The $450 model Nintendo makes in extremely low quantities because that's not the profit margin they want. 

The Christmas Day 2024 leaker got that correct too, he/she should be credited for that when a lot of people were giving him grief and saying Mario Kart couldn't be a launch title/pack-in (I said Mario Kart would be the ideal pick for a launch title that Nintendo would want also). 

A lot of the stupid things said essentially seem to boil down to "Nintendo hasn't done that in the past or at least in the recent past as I understand it so that can't possibly happen" ... which is a dumb way of looking at things. 

Mario Kart bundle was discontinued. I bought the $450 model tbh