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curl-6 on 18 April 2026
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UnderwaterFunktown said:
curl-6 said:

The depreciation of currency isn't a US-exclusive thing though, inflation is a global phenomenon, the euro has lost 24% of it's value since 2017; the Switch 1 would be nearly 400 Euros today in adjusted currency, making Switch 2 about a 20% increase.

The European price is a bit steep in today's economy, I'd actually agree there, but the number itself is misleading as a euro now has substantially less value than a euro 9 years ago, and Nintendo can't control inflation or how much we get paid.

If they made the Switch 2 cost the same as Switch 1 unadjusted (300 dollars/euros) then it would be a considerably inferior piece of hardware to what we have today, and then everyone would just complain that it was a cheap piece of shit.

Yeah I mean a rather expected answer, but like I say a 50 % increase is still a lot regardless of the fact that Nintendo is obviously not responsible for the economic situation which has also gotten worse since the system launched. If it launched today I'd be suprised if it was less than $500 but that doesn't mean I'd consider it a fair price. The two aren't interlinked like that. And again you're putting a lot of effort into disproving a statement that it was slightly overpriced, which is a pretty mild take and a mostly subjective one.

Simply adding context. You're allowed to feel it's slightly overpriced, just explaining why the difference in numbers is somewhat misleading since a dollar/euro in 2017 vs today is very different.