The Switch is a Hybrid console, so both a handheld and home console rolled into one.
Rising price what way would be good?
By offering more value for the extra cost.
Raises hand. I called it for what it was.
From the perspective of a customer this is the worst time to raise your prices. I get that it's a luxury item but timing it before the holidays considering it is much easier to get one in this economic landscape just leaves a bad taste.
Like I said it's neither a pure handheld or home console it's both, and the power does not determine what it is.
uh oh!
I'll update this table to last month inflation using this website using June of these years -middle of the year- as month:
| System (year) | Game cost in USD at system launch year | Adjusted for inflation as of July 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| NES (June 1986) | 29.99-49.99 | 81.07-135.14 |
| SNES (June 1991) | 49.99-59.99 | 108.90-130.69 |
| N64 (June 1996) | 49.99 | 94.52 |
| PS2 (June 2000) | 49.99 | 85.91 |
| Xbox 360 (June 2005) | 59.99 | 91.38 |
Console makers get reported periodically from the retailers about the sold units, and also know them with their shipments. Console makers know how many consoles they sell. And they can give this info to market analysts like Ampere in the same way they give them game sales data or any type of data.
Switch is a handheld with TV out. Anyting else is marketing.
True and I have never seen it as such, I play Nintendo games on it, the other two powerhouses are there for those triple AAA games.
Your personal opinion, to me it's a hybrid console, no biggie if we don't happen to agree.
Time to make an online campaign to increase the price of the PS5 in the US. That will really show them.
c-could we do that?
Nintendo is just using it's marketing team to position their product in a space where it will sell more. How is the Switch any different with PSP 2000/3000 PSPGo? Al of those had tv out, dock, bluetooth connection with dualshock 3 etc...
We are already doing it. Once Sony is exposed they'll be forced to raise the price in the US, then they'll finally be doomed and will have no option but to remove Jim Ryan from the PlayStation throne.
Well it's worked the thing is selling very well, but I would agree with you on the PSP etc, apart from the fact the Switch has a dedicated dock to connect to the T.V that was included in the box, and advertised as such etc etc...
You got me wrong. I am not trying to undermine any of its success or think that a handheld is a lesser product. It's very clever on Nintendo's part that using the 'hybrid' marketing managed to up their price for the console and games from 40 to 60 without any backlash from the fans/fanboys. Untill the PSVita/3DS era if you remember there was a certain thinking from some consumers/fans that handhelds and their games were a lesser experience from their console brothers and made from b-tier studios and that's why they costed 40 instead of 60. Now you buy the same pokemon games from the same studios for 60 etc. Marketing trick from Nintendo to up the perceived value of their product and games. I love my handlelds and their games a ton, but in the end a laptop with an external mouse and keyboard and hdmi out is still a laptop and not a desktop.
I think the fact the Switch is not mainly bought by the core has helped more, it's wider demographic obviously sees some value in it, by the way I did not mean you specifically when I stayed some wanted to lessen it's success. The really funny thing is it's not directly competing with either of Sony or Microsoft's consoles, even though it keeps getting compared to them.
Yes, I'm sure everyone playing games on their PS5 will take comfort in knowing that the extra money they have to spend is worth it because Sony is using a proprietary I/O and storage solution. In the end that's what really matters.Smart design on the IO and SSD (Lame)
Off the shelf much slower SSD (Cool)
More performance out of smaller chip, and partly slower but more versatile RAM (Lame)
Big slow chip and bastardised split memory pool(Cool)
New controller with haptics and adaptive triggers(Lame)
Last gen controller (Cool)
Even with increased price one gets more with PS5.
Thats not the way point of sales data tracking is done.
Or how Japan got a price increase, yet currency exchange effects dont affect local sales since they report their quarterly earnings in Yen. Even then, Sony stated currency exchange is a factor in price hikes.
Yes, I'm sure everyone playing games on their PS5 will take comfort in knowing that the extra money they have to spend is worth it because Sony is using a proprietary I/O and storage solution. In the end that's what really matters.
… as if the XSX's design or PS5's one were the reason one could avoid raising the prices and the other could not. That much more expensive to make? If you say so…They're back to being the arrogant Sony from the ps3 era
They really do!
Yup ..add $70 LoU1 remake to that list with no discount to their most loyal fans who bought that game not once but twice! Also, it took Sony such a long time to update the Ps5 for VRR and even expandable SSD storage. It all adds up to a company that treats their most loyal customers like shit.I'm sure they will, Sony really are sticking it to their loyal customers this generation. Ridiculous first party game prices, charging to upgrade to PS5 version and now increasing a console price 2 years after it was released
Why they keep buying it though? You almost make it seem like they like the game or something, imagine that.
Makes the PS5 Pro even more likely and probably more expensive, it was always inevitable anyway. Sony is pretty aware of how much NVidia is able to charge for their more expensive GPUs, they know there is a market for an even more premium PlayStation.
Its not. Its a hybrid system that is specifically designed as a system to be played in two different ways.
I was in Canada earlier this year and HATED the two sales tax. I thought the 8% tax was bad but then they added another 5% tax for some other thing. 13% sales tax is fucking bullshit.
Highly unlikely...not until 2024-25 at earliest
Absolutely, those loading times
, even a remaster of a last gen game showed that 12900k(mrsp higher than PS5) can't brute force to match that IO.
Maybe they could have said the price is now increased but every console from here on out will come with Sackboy as well as Astro pre-loaded?
This is such an exaggeration. You can even lock on to enemies Metroi Prime style. There's nothing wrong with the aiming on consoles. You'll only miss if you're blind and can't hold a controller. It has that Metroid Prime/Killzone 2 weight to it.
