Switch prices changing.
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Dr. Wilkinson
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Nah. We all already have one. And we got dibs on supply during Covid
PPIMystaceus
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For sure. Once the holidays are over I would imagine.
Dr. Wilkinson
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If tariffs don't change, yeah count on it. Same for PS5. Xbox has already thrown their hands up and gone up significantly, but no one's buying them anyway.
Unknown?
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Same thing happened when Microsoft and Sony went with Nvidia. They couldn't drop it very far because Nvidia doesn't want to drop the price.
jm89
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Switch 2 accessories also getting price increase.
Wouldn't be surprised if they are in loss territory with switch 2 and doing everything to not have to raise its price.
Vietnam production was there way out of avoiding tariffs on china, but trump played a blinder and now Vietnam have 20% tariffs.
Wouldn't be surprised if they are in loss territory with switch 2 and doing everything to not have to raise its price.
Vietnam production was there way out of avoiding tariffs on china, but trump played a blinder and now Vietnam have 20% tariffs.
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Deerock71
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DownLikeBCPowder
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Honestly, this is so wild to me. I understand that economic and geopolitical conditions are entering a period of great change and we are no longer on the course of technology products ever reducing in price, but an 8 year old unit that never had a price drop receiving a price increase? It blows my mind - but instead of jumping on Nintendo as I see some do, justified or not down to the last dollar, I'd recommend some consider the wider implications that are screaming in your face at this point.
But..... I thought Chyna will pay for it.
kazuyamishima
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They'll increase the price of the Switch 2 after the holidays
simpatico
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Reducing a console to the specs of its APU is something we should only hear from PC gamers when platform warring. It's like looking at a Czapek Antarctique as pile of steel and brass. If that's really how you value prop gaming hardware, you're going to be a lot more satisfied on the PC side. A console should be much more than just an APU with an IO panel. That's where the value comes from. Currently I am PC only because that platform holders that target me, Microsoft and Sony, aren't doing enough on the platform/ecosystem side to pull me away from just parting together chips and an IO panel. This doesn't mean I don't wish one of them would sweep me off my feet. I hope for it every day. Past two generation have just been x86 gaming laptops with very few unique embellishments. The ones that are unique like the controller, I can commandeer. It would be bad ass if the PS6 came out tomorrow and was shaped like a soundbar because some cutting-edge component had to be that size. And the games were little dice sized cubes that were fundamentally unplayable on PC. I haven't had a tech excitement boner like that in probably a decade. It's been so long we all forget what those tech excitement boners even felt like.
Stop banging on the bottom lines. It's just going to lead to an ASUS GAMEBOX6 future.
Stop banging on the bottom lines. It's just going to lead to an ASUS GAMEBOX6 future.
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LordCBH
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I think Nintendo will try to ride out through the holidays before they go up, which would definitely fall in line with your 9 month guess.
At the very least they'll ride through November and catch all those sweet sweet Pokemon sales since ZA is in October.
jm89
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My guess the online sub goes up in price next before the switch 2.
It's crazy Nintendo use to be looked as the cheaper option in terms of hardware, but they could end up being the most expensive in the console market right now.
Some parents are gonna have a heart attack when they see the price of replacing switch 2 controllers for their children.
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dragonyeuw
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I was thinking that exact same thing earlier today. Going back to the Wii they were basically the 'budget' option to the Xbox/ Playstation 'HD twins', and were perfectly positioned to be the '2nd console' that people bought for its exclusives. At this stage they've priced themselves par with those other systems, so I really do wonder what that means for its sales a year from now.
Lokaum D+
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IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
I seriously think they'll introduce dynamic pricing and bump up the cost over the holidays when the console is in demand.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
There is no way they are in loss territory they may have a 20% margin as opposed to 30% margin. But they are not losing money on the hw.
iHaunter
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Oh, they are but are also increasing the price.
kazuyamishima
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I think that subscriptions and the console itself will increase in price after March 2026 at the earliest, but they might do it at the beginning of next year.
Same will go for the PS5, at least for the disc version in the US.
But yeah, the Switch 2 will be right there next in price with the other two.
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GoldenEye98
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The dock is basically plastic with some ports lol...
RomanceDawn
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Wow this is some fascinating uncharted territory. Legit question here, so who among us is angry because they wanted a Switch relatively soon and haven't dove in yet? Or maybe you wanted to buy one for a loved one. Some of you are so pissed with the hardware maybe you wanted one for your nemesis?
Tariffs don't equate to price increases on the consumer as an absolute outcome. Depending on the market some companies can and sometimes will eat the cost one way or another. There is a threshold where too much is too much, so I gotta wonder what Nintendo is really thinking behind the scenes.
Sure it's a great excuse for Nintendo to say "market conditions/tarriffs" but I don't believe them. These machines are so old now and have never seen a price drop. I've got to imagine their profit margins are sizable and they didn't want to cut into that.
And/Or they must be viewing their products old and new as an even bigger premium. Maybe they think you are paying to get access to BotW, Smash Ultimate, the classic games, etc.
Or do they simply want brand new consumers to just compare the Switch 1 and Switch 2 prices and lay down the extra $50 on a whim?
Really interested in seeing if this works for them or if it bites them in the apples.
Tariffs don't equate to price increases on the consumer as an absolute outcome. Depending on the market some companies can and sometimes will eat the cost one way or another. There is a threshold where too much is too much, so I gotta wonder what Nintendo is really thinking behind the scenes.
Sure it's a great excuse for Nintendo to say "market conditions/tarriffs" but I don't believe them. These machines are so old now and have never seen a price drop. I've got to imagine their profit margins are sizable and they didn't want to cut into that.
And/Or they must be viewing their products old and new as an even bigger premium. Maybe they think you are paying to get access to BotW, Smash Ultimate, the classic games, etc.
Or do they simply want brand new consumers to just compare the Switch 1 and Switch 2 prices and lay down the extra $50 on a whim?
Really interested in seeing if this works for them or if it bites them in the apples.
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SidViscous
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They are not hiring and firing contractors every dev cycle, not pushing developers into bankruptcy to fund their subscription service, and not turning all their beloved IP into GaaS products.
I was against their pricing initially but I now see it the same way as paying more for organic food.
Pushing the switch 1 price up is likely also down to solid availability of switch 2 stock and wanting to nudge sales towards that, their profits come from game sales primarily so everyone who buys a switch 2 has a higher long term "value" now that a lot of switch 1 stuff is discounted.
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Deerock71
Very Poor Hoice of Wor
This...seems likely. Between now and Christmas, they're going to want you to pay forward.
asdasdasdbb
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The price increase is def because of tariffs. But the things that would drive price cuts (die shrinks, component price cuts) never happened, and TSMC is even probably charging more for 16FF than they did in 2017.
Before the Switch 2 was released, I was kind of wondering if they would try to release a new Switch 1 model, probably Lite, after the Switch 2's release. Seems unlikely now. They've done that before (see the 2DS XL)
mckmas8808
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dragonyeuw
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Out of the scenarios you're giving, I definitely think there is an element of 'wait, the Switch OLED is $50 less than Switch 2? I'll just pony up the extra $50' strategy here. Which, on one hand is kind of weird because it almost suggests they don't believe Switch 2 will sell on its own merit unless they make it look like a great value by bumping up the price of the OG Switch. But Switch 2 is obviously selling well ( the fastest selling launch ever etc etc), so such tactics at least for now doesn't seem warranted. I just question why they'd risk the PR hit right now when they would obviously want all positive buzz and momentum launching a new flagship device.
Pimpbaa
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You do realize that Mario Kart World is only 60 bucks in Japan right? Everything switch 2 related in japan is considerably cheaper (like switch 1 levels).They are price gouging (or over compensating for trariffs), you are not paying extra for something special. You are paying more than a ps5 game for last gen graphics. They are doing something just as bad as all the other shit you mention. Especially in countries without tariffs, they are still fucking over consumers (like Canada paying 100 bucks which is 10 dollars more than usual for an 70 US dollar game). Organic food FFS. The goddamn mental gymnastics trying to excuse Nintendo's switch 2 pricing is fucking retarded.
Deerock71
Very Poor Hoice of Wor
Pimpbaa
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We have the money. We pay for what we want.
And this is why Nintendo will get away with it. If people said no, then they would have be forced to reduce prices. I'm angry because people are not voting with their wallet, just like I was when people payed for Xbox live (and then every other console maker did that), microtransactions, 70 dollar games.. Never seen so many people happy to pay more than another country just because it's Nintendo.
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nordique
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In Canada, it reflects the weak CAD to USD. The absolute price increases are not the same. going up $5 or $20 Canadian is not equivalent to the USD price increases. For example switch lite is now $280 CAD, OLED switch is now $490 CAD. New American price conversion would be $320 for lite, $550 CAD for oled
for Americans, this is tariff related.
If Americans visit Canada, and buy the switch 1 family here, they will get cheaper systems actually compared to what they would pay.
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Haint
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They already built tariffs into Switch 2, that's why there was no price announcement in the unveil stream. They were clearly targeting $399 for the base model.
Gambit2483
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This is why everyone hates tariffs and they failed in the past. It's essentially a consumer tax. Expect to see the price of EVERYTHING increase in the coming weeks
Deerock71
Very Poor Hoice of Wor
Or, you could resell it for more.
Dynomite
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I like the sound of that.
I was waiting for an OLED version with better battery life but these prices are giving me second thoughts.
64gigabyteram
Reverse groomer.
they're not acting entitled. It's the consumers (not customers) who act like giving their money to a company is a rite of passage.
Madserb2023
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The problem with working out the cause of this, is after working for a company that massively increased pricing during Covid because we could, it's hard to know if its genuinely due to tarrifs of if companies see it as an opportunity to increase them. A lot of people will just accept the increase as a result of a tariff rather than blame the company. Wouldn't be as suspicious if hadn't done it myself.
calistan
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The Xbox Live charge made sense at the time. They had free online features on the PS3 but it was rudimentary. On Xbox 360 you had cross-game parties, free demos, and other features that are now expected but a free infrastucture couldn't support, since it's the sender who pays for all that bandwidth.
marjo
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Yeah, I think I'm just done with Nintendo at this point. For me, the product is simply not worth the asking price.
AJUMP23
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