The games we are talking about are labeled as Switch 2 Editions with no claims to Deluxe, Complete or Definitive. If you expect Super Mario Party Jamboree with additional new content to be cheaper or the same price on new hardware only half a year after its release on Switch 1, then you have very wild expectations. Likewise, the add-on content for Kirby and the Forgotten Land is brandnew.

Then you proceed to be verifiably wrong about Breath of the Wild and you aren't the first one in this thread. Both BotW and TotK are tied in with the Nintendo Switch app on smart devices with two known features so far: Guidance for things like korok seeds and audio logs spoken by Zelda that weren't in the original releases. It's one thing to be critical of prices, but it's a whole nother thing to not even make the effort to do the most basic research on the subject at hand. I'll reiterate that it's two known features so far.

The games that only have framerate and resolution bumps on Switch 2 have free updates, so there's a clear distinction between little to no effort and notable effort being put in when it comes to pricing.

Which leaves you with Welcome Tour, a tech demo that everyone was dying to play before it was announced that it will cost something. That's the straw that is breaking the camel's back. It's this generation's 1-2-Switch.

Sure, PS+ may not be the best example, but Sony has done the same for their software/hardware, and a few users argued inflation to justify it, but got dog piled for it. Nearly 20+ users have agreed with Rol's initial post. 

Anyone arguing inflation for any PS price hike in the past few years didn't get even a fraction of that support. 

That’s fair. Inflation isn’t the standard when it comes to luxury goods, so raising prices to account for inflation is rather unprecedented…I’m on the fence. Nintendo’s hiring a lot more people, the cost for game development has likely exploded with this generational leap, etc. IDK.

If you look at the timeline of inflation in my original post - Austria's development of inflation rates is similar to a lot of other countries' - then you see that there wasn't an uptick until after 2020. That's why inflation doesn't quite work as justification for Sony hardware and software released in 2020.

The actual reasons for Sony's price hikes would be that the PS5 has better technology relative to its time of release than the PS4 had, and ever-increasing development costs and times for video games on the software side. But that's the typical gamer paradox: Always asking for better looking games, and always being surprised that that costs companies more money; costs which they then must pass on to the consumer in order to make things work.

Everyone was dying to play the Welcome Tour?

Was there a poll I missed?

Lol! Also, I just find it so funny that a game called “Welcome Tour” costs $10. That’s like charging money for a map of an amusement park.

Sony actually raised the price of the PS5 a few years ago. People argued about the macroeconomics of inflation back then. I even remember some arguments about the currency rate in other countries compared to the USD. All to justify the price hike. 

None of that went over well compared to this thread where at least half the users agree with inflation. 

Sony's raising the price of PS Plus is only due to what every billion-dollar corp does. Raise prices. Reduce benefits. PS Plus gets less games now. Remember when Amazon Prime was $80 yearly and you got 20% off preorders for games? Now what you get for 140 bucks a year? Free shipping and Prime Video, which barely has anything worth watching? Capitalism invents inflation to make them richer and you poorer. Stop excusing it.

Regardless, what does posters' reactions to the PS5 price hike have to do with Switch 2? This just comes off as console warring by pitching PS5 is a victim mentality. If those users that are complaining in that thread are now in this thread being hypocrites, then quote them. Right now you are just playing victim for PS5 with no receipts.

Sony fans failing to help you justify PS5's price hike has nothing to do with Switch 2 and appears you are in this thread playing victim for Sony as an excuse to troll Nintendo. 

Prices for Nintendo consoles and games were always at a Premium, so it doesn't surprise me a bit the prices keep increasing. I never expected to be an early adopter, so my plans to wait a bit haven't changed

However I believe the budgets people have for gaming are not progressing at the same pace as the price increases. Switch 2 is heading towards having a non-insignificant decrease in units sold, specially software, compared to Switch 1

I wonder if the industry is heading towards the state of the late 90s where gaming was just more expensive and prohibitive

At meantime, I will just restrict Switch 2 purchases to few key games that justify expending so much money, games I know will provide me enough hours of entertainment. I personally dislike this method of choice because will make me avoid smaller games and new IPs, but there's not much to do when exchange rates are fucking my currency lol