Re: Switching to a higher price

Am 09.04.25 um 11:02 schrieb JAB:

On 03/04/2025 15:44, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

There's a lot of news about the imminent (give or take a few months)
release of Nintendo's Switch 2 portable console. Now, generally I
couldn't give a damn about the Switch --I've little interest in
consoles, portable gaming or Nintendo games-- but one factoid did
pique my interest: apparently all future first-party games for the
Switch 2 are expected to retail at least for $70 USD.

 I do appreciate that prices have to go up but with the current economic climate I do wonder if they are going to shoot themselves in the foot with not just game prices but the console itself. Anecdotally when I've seen them in the wild it's almost inevitable in the hands of a child and not an adult. With the way tariffs are going the affordability is probably going to get even worse unless the hardware cost already has it factored in.

The prices have been on the 70 Dollar mark for quite a while in the Playstation area of things, and publishers are complaining left and right that people do not buy as much as they used to. Given the current climate it will definitely have a negative impact, but that is on them!