When will Switch 2 catch up with the PS5?

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JoaoGrossi said:

PotentHerbs said:

Nintendo is in the toughest situation of the three despite many on this site thinking otherwise. Catching up with the PS5 is nowhere near guaranteed like the thread title implies.

The Switch 2 may see price hikes to $600 - $700+ in the next couple of years. That will severely stall sales momentum just like it has for the PS5. Sony can hold out for the PS6 launch which in turn helps the PS5 leg it out for a bit more. After the news that Sony is stopping disc production after January 2028, I'm starting to believe the PS6 is going to release sometime after that.

The Switch 2 has less storage and RAM than the PS5 and much less than the PS6. They use LPDDR5X, which is quite cheaper than GDDR6 and specially GDDR7. So they are the ones who will have the smallest increase and due to their high profits, the ones that can more easily absorve the costs. They are probably now under a LTA(Long Term Agreement) for the price of RAM, which would stabilize the prices for them for the next 3 years. 

I doubt that LPDDR5X is cheaper than GDDR6 atm considering the mobile sector and nobody is having a LTA for RAM, not even Apple that sells around 225m. iPhones every year.

The price will continue to go up for all manufacturers, Nintendo won't subsidise the system, they rarely do that.