Phones are obtained free through contract deals by the majority of people so you're not paying the full cost up front that's not a good comparison as you cover the costs in your service subscription over two years.

or it could be as easy as neither wants to go first. You look bad if you have the higher price or you could lose a lot of money if you go too low.

I feel the need to remind everyone that the same was said about Nintendo when they waited until January 13th, less than 2 months before the Switch’s launch, to reveal the details, and look how well that turned out for them.

Patience.

And the Switch had months of shortages after launch, especially in Japan.  But this was fine because it launched in March and there wasn't a massive holiday around the corner to get the consoles to customers by.

When launching a console in November, they have to make as many as possible available within the first month because everyone will want it by Christmas.  A longer lead-in time is needed so they know how many consoles to have available within that first month.  At this point they may have started producing the consoles, but they're flying blind about how many they'll need until the price and release dates are public.

You said it yourself, they showed off the UI. What more do you want bruh?

This is the least hype I have ever seen for a new console generation. I feel nothing. The last console gen to truly feel hyped up going in was the buildup for 360, PS3, and Wii. Then again I am very jaded seeing the joke "AAA" gaming has become and seeing the disc era in it's last days does not make me excited.

Nvidia conference just blew these consoles out of the water, because we know the actual price for what we are going to get.

Its just 2 months from release and still nothing...

Future historians will write tomes about how poorly we've all handled this moment. Ours won't be the Greatest Generation, but the Petulant Generation.

On one hand yes but on the other Switch was inheriting a monopoly in one market from the 3DS the was a massive safety net for it in case things went wrong which is something many people back then were not realizing secondly we knew details would be given that day as the reveal trailer a month and a half earlier said all details would be given in the January event here people don't know any details and when they'll be given details that's a key difference as the was schedule people knew of in regards to the Switch we also knew the Switch release date before the January event.