I do not see what is the problem. I believe they've made their marketing analyses, and probably the system will have a lot of earlier adopters willing to pay that price tag. They need to make some money while they still can. And I guess that thing is expensive to build.

I really hope that isnt the case.

Best case : nintendo is greedy and just takeing it out of the hides of early adopters, and are able to drop price fast (if sales slow).

worst case : its a wii u all over again, the 80$ spent on the tablet controller design in BoM. System stays overpriced and doesnt sell.

It will sell out regardless because it's Nintendo and they undership to create the sellout effect. The Wii U sold like crazy at launch aswell. The deciding factor is what comes after.

With fans is always a matter of love. And they have many fans to sustain big sales numbers initially. It is not going to work the same way with rational buyers though. While it's true that it is a handheld and not a home console, people are paying a lot of money on iPhones, iPads, this 350 price tag is not even close to the iPad's.

For me if it had a Sega logo instead of Nintendo I would buy it, as it doesn't it is going to be rational with me.

330/350 € for a handheld that connects to the TV... what can possibly go wrong?

Hmm, £280 is more than I expected. But if that's the price they are aiming for due to their needs, then fair enough. Not like I'll get it.

It's £280 in UK from when I preordered 15 minutes ago so I don't get what's going on in the mainland then again the Euro is quite weak now.

But people buy Apple products :^)

ill show myself out

hahahahaha

now I might actually buy it just to say 10 years from now that I own Nintendo's last console

that's just beyond ridiculous xD

well 350€ is £305 ...