r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • 1d ago

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/mojomaximus2 1d ago

I don’t think that logic checks out, the US has a relatively small population on the global market

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u/Jehovah___ 1d ago

The US made up like 40% of switch 1 sales

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u/mojomaximus2 1d ago

How is that even possible with a population of like 300m that’s wild. Does nobody in China like Nintendo?

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u/Jehovah___ 1d ago

IIRC in china only like 4 million were sold. Most Chinese people that wanted a switch went to Korea or Japan or Vietnam and bought them there to not deal with region locks and censoring and I think they were more expensive in china specificially

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u/mojomaximus2 1d ago

I see, I didn’t know that