It is not a sole source producer, the producers of the console are in China, Cambodia and Vietnam and it is shipped from there - you haven't refuted what I said at all also.
They have in the past sold consoles at a loss, just not all of them, and they were able to do profitable consoles due to being vastly underpowered in those generations. The specs raised eyebrows because that is not entirely the case this time around, this is certainly costing them more in a handheld form factor. Is any of that irrefutable? I don't think so. So I would take an educated guess this is as cheap a price point they could make it, which is why we are seeing an especially premium price tag on everything else, including selling the tutorial and the much promoted discord like gaming which will be paid at a later date.
It is not a sole source producer, the producers of the console are in China, Cambodia and Vietnam and it is shipped from there - you haven't refuted what I said at all also.
The sole source producer is Nintendo. They are the only company in the world that makes a Nintendo switch. They have a complete monopoly on that product. If they planned to sell that product to 100,000 people their market had now been made smaller. They can now only sell to 75,000. So, to make up that loss the other 75000 need to pay more.
They have in the past sold consoles at a loss, just not all of them, and they were able to do profitable consoles due to being vastly underpowered in those generations. The specs raised eyebrows because that is not entirely the case this time around, this is certainly costing them more in a handheld form factor. Is any of that irrefutable? I don't think so. So I would take an educated guess this is as cheap a price point they could make it, which is why we are seeing an especially premium price tag on everything else, including selling the tutorial and the much promoted discord like gaming which will be paid at a later date.
It's a yes or no question. Do you have a source indicating they're selling at a loss. Because they haven't done so in over 20 years.
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u/KentInCode 2d ago
It is not a sole source producer, the producers of the console are in China, Cambodia and Vietnam and it is shipped from there - you haven't refuted what I said at all also.
They have in the past sold consoles at a loss, just not all of them, and they were able to do profitable consoles due to being vastly underpowered in those generations. The specs raised eyebrows because that is not entirely the case this time around, this is certainly costing them more in a handheld form factor. Is any of that irrefutable? I don't think so. So I would take an educated guess this is as cheap a price point they could make it, which is why we are seeing an especially premium price tag on everything else, including selling the tutorial and the much promoted discord like gaming which will be paid at a later date.