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[LordOcidax]

Prices of the consoles in Japan in US dollars (April 2025) comparison.

Playstation 5 Pro - US $760
Playstation 5 - US $520
Playstation 5 Digital - US $440
Playstation 4 1Tb - US $194

Switch 2 Mario Kart World Bundle - US $379
Switch 2 - US $340
Switch Oled - US $210
Switch - US $150
Switch Lite - US $110

Xbox Series X - US $448
Xbox Series S - US $320

 

[Ogbert]

What's the average wage in Japan?

 

[Ellery]

Huh. I didn't know that the Nintendo consoles were that cheap in Japan.

Rest seems somewhat in line, but the switch models are a steal

 

[cormack12]

Huh. I didn't know that the Nintendo consoles were that cheap in Japan.

Rest seems somewhat in line, but the switch models are a steal

Yeah no wonder it sells so fucking well!!!

 

[Mownoc]

The discount on Nintendo hardware in Japan is crazy. Our prices are set higher so they can discount in Japan.

 

[cormack12]

The discount on Nintendo hardware in Japan is crazy. Our prices are set higher so they can discount in Japan.

Yup, we subsidise the Japanese market

 

[Randall365]

In the UK, the Mario Kart bundle is £429, so assuming the game costs £70, I suppose it's not miles off. Fairplay to Nintendo for treating their local customers better.

 

[Black_Stride]

A Switch base is 150 dollars?

 

[Juja]

Ahh, to be Michael Pachter. You get everything wrong every time, but it makes you wealthy somehow.

How is his job even a job? In the work I do (chef), if somebody gets things wrong every time, you fire them almost right away. How.is video game market analyst even a job? (Maybe he claims he does other stuff?)

" I had 2 windows open and managed to post this in the wrong thread. Sorry. This was supposed to be in the one with the poll where we were Michael Pachter all along.

 

[Bloody Crow of Cainhurst]

So Nintendo has been cooking its books the whole time?!?!?!

At $210 I'd buy a new Switch OLED every week!

I don't care what the numbers say, the PS2 will forever be the bestselling console of all time

 

[LordOcidax]

What's the average wage in Japan?

According to google US $2,200 monthly.

 

[Woopah]

Huh. I didn't know that the Nintendo consoles were that cheap in Japan.

Rest seems somewhat in line, but the switch models are a steal

The discount on Nintendo hardware in Japan is crazy. Our prices are set higher so they can discount in Japan.

Yup, we subsidise the Japanese market

The discount is caused by the weakening of the yen in the last 8 years. It wasn't this way at launch and there's no "subsidising".

 

[Horseganador]

How Nintendo takes advantage of American and European users by selling them consoles at much higher prices.

 

[simpatico]

I can respect and admire Japan giving a discount to their countrymen. Love that energy and I'd like to see Americans adopt it too.

 

[Zacfoldor]

They make the best games and the best consoles. They deserve for them to be cheaper, frankly. Hell, give every Japanese citizen a Switch 2 at birth and I'm good with it.

 

[K' Dash]

Shit is always cheaper in the US, electronics are a fucking ripoff if you don't buy them there, the rest of America (the continent) make $800 (best case scenario) or less monthly and products cost double or triple the price.

 

[Londo]

What's the average wage in Japan?

/thread

 

[scydrex]

Damn Nintendo is cheap in japan. No wonder they sell a lot over there.

 

[LordOcidax]

How Nintendo takes advantage of American and European users by selling them consoles at much higher prices.

Or maybe Nintendo doesn't want to take advantage Japan too because is their hometown like Sony is doing right now and are having abysmal numbers with those prices.

 

[noob smokes]

no wonder they sell gangbusters over there

 

[KungFucius]

Isn't the Switch 2 in Japan language locked to Japanese only? Otherwise you could flip them.

 

[Pop]

Oh I see now, Nintendo is up to tricks in the homeland

 

[LordOcidax]

Isn't the Switch 2 in Japan language locked to Japanese only? Otherwise you could flip them.

Japan only.

 

[pulicat]

Using 2017 yen to usd exchange rate for Switch

2017 MSRP in USD
Switch - $267
Switch lite - $177
Switch oled - $346
Switch 2- $444

Yen suffered greatly in the past 5 years, which subsequently pushed Sony to increase the price of the PS5 in Japan, but Nintendo is looking to do the opposite by subsidizing the hardware in their home turf to maintain their market share.

 

[Puscifer]

Huh. I didn't know that the Nintendo consoles were that cheap in Japan.

Rest seems somewhat in line, but the switch models are a steal

Yen is weak right now

 

[Fbh]

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Obligatory "thread is full of trolls or even worse"

 

[AJUMP23]

Maybe I should import a switch 2 from Japan. Yen is weak

 

[Woopah]

What's the average wage in Japan?

/thread

This is the key point, people in Japan are not paid in $.

In $, the average salary in Japan was $45,874. In 2023 it was $37,363. That doesn't mean people in Japan had a pay cut.

 

[Venom Snake]

And the vast majority of my Japanese friends plus my girlfriend who is also Japanese, suspended their Nintendo subscriptions as soon as Monster Hunter Wilds came out and they bought a PS5. I am one of the few people in our group who still keeps it active.

Traitors.

 

[Skifi28]

I didn't realise until now that the Switch was so cheap in Japan.

 

[PeteBull]

Isn't the Switch 2 in Japan language locked to Japanese only? Otherwise you could flip them.

 

[ArtHands]

The players flip Sony the finger by buying MH and DQ on Switch and PC instead