PS5 and PS Portal Price Increase Confirmed [Update]

[PAOerfulone]

dharh said:

sc94597 said:

Switch 2 does have an advantage in that its ram and storage are a lot slower and it has less of it than the other systems (outside of Series S.) Its GPU is also on a relatively old manufacturing node, so it's not competing with newer harder much there. 

I'd say it is relatively insulated a bit compared to the other platforms. Nintendo also has more of a margin too when it comes to profits on hardware. 

I think if SW2 does increase in price it'll be something like a $50 increase, which still puts it $100 less than a digital-only PS5 and $150 less than PS5 with disk drive. 

Nintendo's bigger problem is the price of physical carts cutting into their software profits. Which is why this happened. But it is hard for them to tell people to go full digital when Micro SD Express cards are also pretty expensive now.  

Obviously I don't expect it to be as steep as the price increases we are getting elsewhere. I expect a $50 bump as you say, perhaps later this year if things remain unchanged.

The other thing, perhaps the main thing, Nintendo has to consider is that Switch 2 is at the beginning of its life, not the end of it. The primary objective right now, and for the foreseeable future, is to sell as many Switch 2s as fast as possible and encourage more Switch 1 users and new consumers to migrate. If they raised the price now or even a year from now, that would go completely against that objective. 

That’s why they raised the price on Switch 1 and their accessories and not the Switch 2 itself. Because accessories are not nearly as essential as the console itself, and Switch 1 is right at the end of its rope.

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