To be fair i don't really understand how its even possible for Sony to do big price promotions in the US this year, tariffs on countries in Asia are like 20-25 %, meaning Sony should be losing fairly big money on PS5 sales in the US at this price point. But maybe its a loss leader strategy at their part to lose money on hardware sales to get more people into the ecosystem. And they do have huge subscription revenue, huge third party sales, huge digital sales ratio and huge accessory sales, Nintendo has far fewer means to use that same loss leader strategy, because they have less avenues to recoup hardware losses.

To be fair i don't really understand how its even possible for Sony to do big price promotions in the US this year, tariffs on countries in Asia are like 20-25 %, meaning Sony should be losing fairly big money on PS5 sales in the US at this price point. But maybe its a loss leader strategy at their part to lose money on hardware sales to get more people into the ecosystem. And they do have huge subscription revenue, huge third party sales, huge digital sales ratio and huge accessory sales, Nintendo has far fewer means to use that same loss leader strategy, because they have less avenues to recoup hardware losses.

I don't think that was Nintendo dropping the price of the Mario Kart World bundle to $449, but rather retailers. It started with Walmart dropping the price, followed by other retailers up to several hours later.

You'd think so. But there fiscal report from just a few weeks ago said they expected to lose less money on hardware this year. "Decrease in losses from hardware."

So they can't be losing an insane amount with these deals, and unlikely it's a case of they changed their plans as the big discounts started just 10 days after they made this report.

I had never heard of the Nex Playground until last week but it seems to be a Kinect like device which is cool since the last version of the Kinect came out 12 years ago so there's been plenty of time for that technology to get a lot better so nice to see a company take another crack at it. Xbox Series not even being the 3rd best selling console in the US during black Friday week is just sad, during black friday 2017 it wasn't far behind the PS4 in the US. Also the Switch 2 makes up a similar percentage of sales as the Switch 1 did back in black friday 2017 so if it can pull that off with a weaker holiday line-up than the Switch had then things are looking good for next year when it gets the gen 10 Pokemon games.

I had never heard of the Nex Playground until last week but it seems to be a Kinect like device which is cool since the last version of the Kinect came out 12 years ago so there's been plenty of time for that technology to get a lot better so nice to see a company take another crack at it. Xbox Series not even being the 3rd best selling console in the US during black Friday week is just sad, during black friday 2017 it wasn't far behind the PS4 in the US. Also the Switch 2 makes up a similar percentage of sales as the Switch 1 did back in black friday 2017 so if it can pull that off with a weaker holiday line-up than the Switch had then things are looking good for next year when it gets the gen 10 Pokemon games.