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firebush03 15 hours ago
JackHandy said:

If they think raising prices is the way to go instead of lowering profit margins... I have questions. The numbers are in for black Friday, and they're bad. Historically bad. So unless it was a fluke (and that might very well be), the general public have spoken. The prices are already too high. Raise them, and what do you think is going to happen, Mr. high-dollar suit man at the top?

At some point, you have to make a choice. We're all dealing with the orange, murderous clown with Silly-Putty for brains and an ethical fabric that would make even some demons blush. All of us. And we're all going to have to compromise our lives a little until he is gone, even conglomerates like Nintendo and Sony.

I feel like the narrative of “$450 is too expensive!” is gonna age quite poorly once all three systems get smacked with another hike next year. And these prices are not due to “orange man” (i.e. tariffs) alone but also a plethora of other issues, e.g. the exploding AI industry creating a GPU/CPU/RAM shortage.



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rapsuperstar31 14 hours ago
JackHandy said:
Soundwave said:

lol, you'll be lucky if the $450 price holds, Nintendo is likely eating the tarrif cost right now and the price of RAM/flash storage is going through the roof. 

This is a freak promotion with limited stock that you can leverage with the price match feature, for people who are thinking of getting the system, I'd probably jump on it fast. The Switch 2 hardware is quite good and there's a possibility like other hardware the price will be going up, not down. If you're budget conscious, I would take this deal and run. 

If they think raising prices is the way to go instead of lowering profit margins... I have questions. The numbers are in for black Friday, and they're bad. Historically bad. So unless it was a fluke (and that might very well be), the general public have spoken. The prices are already too high. Raise them, and what do you think is going to happen, Mr. high-dollar suit man at the top?

At some point, you have to make a choice. We're all dealing with the orange, murderous clown with Silly-Putty for brains and an ethical fabric that would make even some demons blush. All of us. And we're all going to have to compromise our lives a little until he is gone, even conglomerates like Nintendo and Sony.

If you make less profits, stock prices go down, if all stock prices go down recessions follow.  The economy is a delicate house of cards. 



Chrkeller 13 hours ago
firebush03 said:
JackHandy said:

If they think raising prices is the way to go instead of lowering profit margins... I have questions. The numbers are in for black Friday, and they're bad. Historically bad. So unless it was a fluke (and that might very well be), the general public have spoken. The prices are already too high. Raise them, and what do you think is going to happen, Mr. high-dollar suit man at the top?

At some point, you have to make a choice. We're all dealing with the orange, murderous clown with Silly-Putty for brains and an ethical fabric that would make even some demons blush. All of us. And we're all going to have to compromise our lives a little until he is gone, even conglomerates like Nintendo and Sony.

I feel like the narrative of “$450 is too expensive!” is gonna age quite poorly once all three systems get smacked with another hike next year. And these prices are not due to “orange man” (i.e. tariffs) alone but also a plethora of other issues, e.g. the exploding AI industry creating a GPU/CPU/RAM shortage.

I'd feel for the big 3, except they charge for online.  So they can eat some hardware cost. 



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DekutheEvilClown 12 hours ago
rapsuperstar31 said:
JackHandy said:

If they think raising prices is the way to go instead of lowering profit margins... I have questions. The numbers are in for black Friday, and they're bad. Historically bad. So unless it was a fluke (and that might very well be), the general public have spoken. The prices are already too high. Raise them, and what do you think is going to happen, Mr. high-dollar suit man at the top?

At some point, you have to make a choice. We're all dealing with the orange, murderous clown with Silly-Putty for brains and an ethical fabric that would make even some demons blush. All of us. And we're all going to have to compromise our lives a little until he is gone, even conglomerates like Nintendo and Sony.

If you make less profits, stock prices go down, if all stock prices go down recessions follow.  The economy is a delicate house of cards. 

Recessions are based on GDP. No one cares about stock prices unless you’re an investor or got a pension tied to investments.



Slownenberg 12 hours ago
JackHandy said:

Should have been the price at launch.

This 1000000x over. it's pure greed. end of thread.

Switch 2 is already seeing weakening demand everywhere outside of Japan. Nintendo is handing over significant market share in Europe to Sony with the Switch 2, turning what was a decently strong market for the Switch into a weak market for the Switch 2, and suddenly PS5 sales are skyrocketing because Europeans realize the hyped up new Nintendo system is not what the Switch was so they may as well get the PS5. And we've all seen the horrendous US sales of the Switch 2 in November, granted in the US it's a combo of Nintendo's plethora of bad Switch 2 decisions as well as the deranged dictator in the US steering the country into the gutter.

But globally it's down to price and so far a complete lack of reasons (read: games) that make the system worth buying. Notice the one place the system is still doing extremely well and putting up Switch-level numbers is the one place where the system is actually affordable and ~$100 cheaper. If Nintendo execs were focused on the right things (the customer!) the Switch would still be doing booming numbers instead of sputtering everywhere outside of Japan.

$399 is a decent price for the system, and the absolute most it should ever cost. If it launched at $399, and with $60 digital and real physical games, I may have been tempted to buy it at launch back when it still seemed like it would be an awesome system. But after endless bad tone deaf decisions by Nintendo this year I simply have zero interest in picking the system up just because there are some retailers actually offering it at a decent price for the holidays.



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Slownenberg 12 hours ago
firebush03 said:
JackHandy said:

If they think raising prices is the way to go instead of lowering profit margins... I have questions. The numbers are in for black Friday, and they're bad. Historically bad. So unless it was a fluke (and that might very well be), the general public have spoken. The prices are already too high. Raise them, and what do you think is going to happen, Mr. high-dollar suit man at the top?

At some point, you have to make a choice. We're all dealing with the orange, murderous clown with Silly-Putty for brains and an ethical fabric that would make even some demons blush. All of us. And we're all going to have to compromise our lives a little until he is gone, even conglomerates like Nintendo and Sony.

I feel like the narrative of “$450 is too expensive!” is gonna age quite poorly once all three systems get smacked with another hike next year. And these prices are not due to “orange man” (i.e. tariffs) alone but also a plethora of other issues, e.g. the exploding AI industry creating a GPU/CPU/RAM shortage.

Zero chance of "$450 is too expensive" aging poorly. If Nintendo is dumb enough to actually raise the price in the future all that means is "$450 is too expensive" will still be 100% valid and the new price would be even more outrageous. If the price is $500 in the future, that does nothing to make $450 suddenly a good price lol, all it means is they would have gone from a bad price to an even worse price. They are already now running into demand issues for the system because $450 is indeed too expensive, if they raise the price the only thing that'll happen is sales will slide further.



JackHandy 11 hours ago
Chrkeller said:
firebush03 said:

I feel like the narrative of “$450 is too expensive!” is gonna age quite poorly once all three systems get smacked with another hike next year. And these prices are not due to “orange man” (i.e. tariffs) alone but also a plethora of other issues, e.g. the exploding AI industry creating a GPU/CPU/RAM shortage.

I'd feel for the big 3, except they charge for online.  So they can eat some hardware cost. 

Any time a person's company is worth billions, I lose the ability to comprehend anything of this nature. Oh, you're worth 3.2 billion dollars. Awesome. Wait... what? You're upset? Why? I thought you just said you were worth 3.2... oh... you don't want to lose .1 billion next quarter, possibly even .4. I see. Well... have a nice day.

That's basically my mind in a nutshell.



Norion 5 hours ago

As has been mentioned anyone in the US who is confident they'll get a Switch 2 in the next year or so and can afford one right now should take advantage of this deal since it might not get this cheap again anytime soon.

Slownenberg said:
JackHandy said:

Should have been the price at launch.

Switch 2 is already seeing weakening demand everywhere outside of Japan. Nintendo is handing over significant market share in Europe to Sony with the Switch 2, turning what was a decently strong market for the Switch into a weak market for the Switch 2, and suddenly PS5 sales are skyrocketing because Europeans realize the hyped up new Nintendo system is not what the Switch was so they may as well get the PS5. And we've all seen the horrendous US sales of the Switch 2 in November, granted in the US it's a combo of Nintendo's plethora of bad Switch 2 decisions as well as the deranged dictator in the US steering the country into the gutter.

But globally it's down to price and so far a complete lack of reasons (read: games) that make the system worth buying. Notice the one place the system is still doing extremely well and putting up Switch-level numbers is the one place where the system is actually affordable and ~$100 cheaper. If Nintendo execs were focused on the right things (the customer!) the Switch would still be doing booming numbers instead of sputtering everywhere outside of Japan.

Your premise here is completely wrong cause there is nothing so far that is indicating that demand is weakening in Europe. Its first November there is literally significantly better than the Switch 1's first according to current estimates on here so barring a big adjustment downwards later on is doing well there currently thus Japan is actually not the only place it's putting up Switch-level numbers.

The US is the odd one out here but that's not a Switch 2 problem since console sales overall were bad there this November. I don't get how you can say stuff this factually incorrect when not only is there no data backing it up there's also data that goes against what you're saying literally clicks away on this very site.

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