Mais caro que o PS5 e jogo a 500 conto, é foda.

Was having this exact same conversation with a friend at work today.

$70 is R$ 400 on Switch but R$ 440 on Switch 2.

Literally: pay more because it's our new system

Also, $70 is R$ 350 on PS5, so R$ 90 more on Switch 2 for the exact same USD price.

Yeah, I'll leave that one for later in the year or when Mario comes out.

Every time I think how bad gaming prices are getting the USA, I look at Brazil with pity. You guys get the shaft in gaming prices.

I'll be traveling to Japan in 2026, and I'll have to figure out a way to buy the Switch 2 worldwide version (maybe my closed friend from Asahikawa-Hokkaido can get it for me until then). The main game I want to play is Duskbloods, and the game will release just in 2026, so I'm oK until then.

PS: I'll watch Lirik playing too, so I'm ok with that.

I understand about avoiding taking losses on products that have actual material value, like hardware. You'll notice no one in this thread is complaining about hardware prices, because those are understandable: you can't lower them just because we're poor.

But the "loss" argument for software is bogus. With few exceptions, Nintendo games are relatively cheap to make compared to other publishers. They could be sold for less and still generate massive profits, given how much they sell. If localized prices were not viable, we wouldn't have localized pricing for other international services like Netflix, Spotify, or even game subscription services like Game Pass. Steam sells software at lower prices in emerging markets for a reason: cheaper prices are still better than piracy. It's more profitable for publishers to earn something in LATAM and Southern Asia than nothing at all. Guess what? Valve is bigger than Nintendo in both revenue and profits

What is Nintendo really losing by selling more units at lower prices only in markets that can't afford full-price games? The answer is: nothing.

Nintendo doesn't do this because they see themselves as Ferraris, not Fords. They prefer to maintain higher prices to reinforce the perception that their games are "premium." The worst part is that Americans, Japanese (and to a lesser extent, Europeans) go along with this narrative—that Nintendo games are Ferraris—even when they aren''t. So, anyone in an emerging economy is left with no choice but to pay up, or in any case, simply playing in other platforms instead 

Yeah, that's right. Nintendo really has a premium image to them. I feel that they've had many discussions about how many people will buy their games and weighing the premium image in comparison to overall sales. 

Worst case scenario
I was wondering that with all these estipulated differences between physical and digital, and that in switch 1 we already had price difference between physical and digital, I was expecting to keep 350R$ for digital 70$ games and 400 for physical.
But we got 90R$ (almost 20US$) increase on 70$ digital games. Almost 30US$, considering that these games used to be 60$. And Im not even mentioning 80$ games.

That a shame.
Ive seen that in Colombia and Mexico the situation is even worse.
The yen situation might habe been so bad.

I have never got that pissed with prices in this industry ever.

Yeah, the Switch itself seems very pricey, but Switch 2 games are still cheaper in Brazil than here in Scandinavia.

Are Switch 2 games individually also 1/3 of the monthly mininum wage there?