Bofferbrauer2 said:
This is especially true if the news report I read a couple days ago is correct. I'm there, they said that investors are shunning Nintendo because apparently even a $100 price hike could be not enough anymore to not sell the console at a loss. In other words, this would mean that a Switch 2 would need to sell at $600 to ensure profitability of the console itself, and the PS6 will be much more expensive to produce than a a switch 2. In fact, I'm mostly worried about the handheld variant of the PS6, as it's rumoured to come with a high-performance chip and 24GB of RAM, I don't see that one being sold at anything less than $600 already, and that would be selling at a considerable loss. |
Eh, I think that's far overselling it. The Switch 2 does not cost so much to produce, even now, that they would need to go up to $600 to make a profit. The $499 price will be profitable, even if not by the margins Nintendo are used to.
Switch 2 and the upcoming PS Handheld at least have the price advantage of being lpddr5x instead of gddr7 which is about half the price.
With Sony subsidising a $499 price for the PS handheld would still be possible currently imo. But $599 may be the more likely outcome depending how things progress over the next year.
