How much money to spend on video games do you have per month?

What price did the original Switch sell for and what price is the Switch 2 selling for?

According to this site https://www.in2013dollars.com/india/inflation/2017?amount=300 the inflation in India means that 1 rupee in 2017 is equivalent to 1.49 rupees today, which is almost the exact rate that prices increased in the US ($300 to $450 is x1.5 increase). Unless Nintendo has increased the price of the Switch 2 more than 1.5 times, then they are just matching the rate of inflation.

If you've been price out of gaming that's likely due to a combination of wage stagnation and inflation, not Nintendo arbitrarily raising the price.

I'm spending less money this first year of Switch2 than I did with the Switch1, because #2 is backwards compatible on hardware and software.

When I bought the first gen Switch I bought 3 first party games (BotW/MK8/M-Oddesey) plus a bunch of smaller indy titles in the first year, because I could only play games on there that I bought on the Switch, not that I owned already. Plus the pro-controller and extra joy-cons.

So this time I did not buy an extra set of joy-cons to play MK with the family nor buy a pro-controller because I already have those. And I probably buy 2 first party games this year. I still have plenty of first gen games in my backlog I can play on #2 now.

Yup, can't be understated really, that for some the first few months and maybe years are gonna be composed of mostly playing what they already owned. 

I basically only bought Deltarune, Welcome Your and MK World(if you count it since it's bundled) so far.

Otherwise, I expect to simply buy on the same principle I did last gen, if it's a game I wanna play, I'll buy it. Be it fed for a couple months in a row or nothing for a couple ones where I simply go through my backlog instead. 

Yeah backwards compatibility and the ability to use your Switch 1 controllers are helpful ways to keep costs down; me and my girlfriend have been able to play Mario Kart together using her Switch 1 Pro controller for instance.

It'd be nice if prices stayed the same forever, but that's just not the world we live in.

I was done with the thread but what the hell does india have to do with this?

You said

"I am priced out of gaming when I could afford to buy the once generational console before and now I can't. Games back in snes days went on discount earlier as well. So did consoles. Now consoles might increase in price over a generation instead of decrease, like the ps5. And currency is a matter of factor as well. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft nor others price their games according to the local currency unlike steam. $10 is huge in India for example. I get you all like to defend your favourite video game company and get all defensive, but I am not some rival video game fan or whatever in the team sports thing."

You brought up India.
If that's not where you're buying video games, why mention it right after talking pricing games in the local currency?

I think one of the big lessons we can take from this is not to give so much credence to online outrage.

Social media perpetuates hate and negativity in order to generate interaction, but that doesn't necessarily translate to real world behaviour. While the narrative online was that the system was overpriced, anti-consumer trash that nobody wanted, doomed to be the next Wii U, in reality people couldn't wait to get their hands on it.

We've seen this time and again with gamer boycotts of titles like Hogwarts Legacy or Pokémon Sword/Shield which went on to enjoy massive sales.

All the doom and gloom was a storm in a teacup.

Well, yeah, true, but real world translation of social media has been happening in a different realm: politics, unfortunately.