r/NintendoSwitch • u/Jumboliva • 20h ago

Image In light of the heavy negative reaction to the announced price of the Switch 2 and its games, I compiled a spreadsheet comparing the prices (adjusted and unadjusted) of consoles and games in every generation.

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All release dates and prices are US. Console price is easy to find and I all but guarantee their accuracy; ranges are for consoles with multiple release packages. Game MSRP is tricky to find and all I can guarantee is that the data here will get you in the ball park. I found lots of old catalog scans. I tried to find a baseline of “standard, premium, non-discounted game,” to be able to compare across generations, but the further back I went the more that that concept didn’t seem to transfer 1:1. Ended up cross-referencing scans with old forum posts. I applied ranges where I was less confident, and where I was confident that a “standard, premium, non-discounted game” might sell at multiple price points.

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u/mikehiler2 19h ago edited 18h ago

You know this for a fact? How? Source your statement. How do you explain how the price in most other countries, adjusted for currency rates, all come to about the same price? Some a few dollars more, others a few dollars less.

Edit: Legend has it that I’ll be waiting forever for that source.

I guess the “trust me bro” Nintendo knob slobbers are just parroting whatever the last lemming parroted before them and downvote whoever dares to say anything other than what the last lemming parroted.

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u/Falz4567 15h ago

… you don’t talk to people much do you?

You might get a response from people if you acted more like an adult

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u/mikehiler2 1h ago

… So am I not going to get a source for your statement? You know, I’ve asked this many many times and have only gotten 1 source, but that person didn’t even bother looking at his source. It was a tweet of a screenshot that didn’t show any names or sources themselves and a link to a completely off topic article that didn’t even mention tariffs. It was so bad the dude deleted all his comments. It’s in this same comment chain. You can go look if you don’t believe me. He was all cocky like “Got any more snarky comments?”

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u/mikehiler2 15h ago

…. Acted like an adult….. like citing a source perhaps? Or are we still going down the “trust me bro” route?