Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
My man, it's really not that complicated. Besides what I've already mentioned about the weak yen, Japan is also the home market for Nintendo, so they'll price the hardware accordingly to ensure it has a successful launch and follows in the footsteps of the OG Switch, which has sold over 35 million units to date...It happened with pln too, just ninny doesnt give a damn, they subsidise switch2 price in japan just like they did with switch1 price in japan, remember that price was 265usd in 2017 in japan, here in poland switch1 price was 385usd(120usd more).
Ofc not complaining, ninny has full right to do it, but lets call spade a spade, ninny does it for specific reason, they wanna keep domination in japan at any cost, its important to them to such a degree, they rather lower console prices to the point its subsidised just to get huge instalbase first few years.
Im perfectly fine with that, again- not a switch 1 or 2 owner here, so its not me who has to bend the knee, ninny got product ppl like and are willing to pay- customers gladly do it, its capitalism at its finest and im bigtime for it.
WiiU was priced 300usd at launch but many customers around the world decided its bad deal so console sold barely 13,5m units worldwide- and again, no complains from me- capitalism works- bad deal for customer=low sales=console bombs in that case.
Tertiary markets like Poland aren't as important, so they'll price it there based on what they believe the market can bear.