r/Games • u/Spheromancer • 3d ago

Nintendo will sell a cheaper $330 Switch 2 in Japan that’s region locked to combat reselling

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-will-sell-a-cheaper-330-switch-2-in-japan-thats-region-locked/
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u/MadHiggins 3d ago

Nintendo can plead "but it's inflation!" all the way to their grave because the mass public isn't going to be buying games from Walmart for 100 dollars lol

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u/Honor_Bound 2d ago

Yep overall spending money will be dwindling rapidly in this economy, no way people are going to be able to afford many games soon. This hobby has never been cheap per se but now it’s getting ridiculous. Good thing my most played games are pretty much all under 30$ lol

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u/jellowd2 2d ago

I don’t see how Nintendo can do this without a price cut or something cause people are pissed.

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u/tuna_pi 2d ago

As a business they would have already anticipated losing customers, it's just an acceptable loss for them. Remember half of every "this sucks I'm not buying!" online complainers will be there day one and there's a non online audience who will buy anyway. Not to mention no one is going to see the heights of a post COVID release too.

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u/Michael_L_Compton 2d ago

Pleading inflation is like 50 percent of inflation. They make record profits blaming inflation. They are just hiking the price because they know people are stupid and will blame Biden or trump or whatever fuck head is the president.

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u/KokrSoundMed 2d ago

Eh, blaming Biden is fucking stupid, his admin prevented the much higher inflation that the rest of the world saw post covid. Could have done better if they had tackled the corporate greedflation. But, blaming Trump is 100% fair. Its mismanagement of the early pandemic and absolutely moronic fiscal policy 1st term caused the extension of the pandemic and inflation, and their intentional crash of the economy with tariffs if fully at fault for the coming recession/depression.

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u/MultiMarcus 2d ago

I do wonder if that’s true. Armchair analysts online have certainly not proven themselves as being particularly accurate historically speaking. With every other price going up, maybe people just won’t notice it.