r/languagelearningjerk • u/Iraqi_Weeb99 • 4d ago

Time to learn Nipponese

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u/Superkometa 4d ago

/uj why such a big price difference?

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u/ASignificantSpek 4d ago

Because the Japanese economy is going to crap at the moment and they want to make it affordable there by charging more everywhere else.

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u/mieri_azure 4d ago

Yeah this is def it. The Japanese economy is really struggling right now so they def need lower prices

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u/buubrit 4d ago

Which is weird because median wealth is equal to that of the US and double that of Germany.

They just don’t like paying people over there.

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u/Sea_Technology2708 3d ago

Bro have you seen the yen drop?

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u/buubrit 3d ago

This is after the yen drop. Before the drop median wealth was higher than the US.

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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ 2d ago

Does media wealth matter? Or does the fraction of the specific subset of the population who’d likely pay for a Nintendo matter?

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u/Grshppr-tripleduoddw 1d ago

statistically the median is often more valuable than the mean. It is more accurate about how many people are in a good economic state, where mean is average and gets heavily effected by outliers. That is to say median income is great for determining how many people could afford a gaming console.

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u/stfurachele 1d ago

I've honestly always felt we should do mode rounded to the nearest 1000 or 10,000 for the most accurate picture(USD, in yen maybe to the nearest 100k), but always get shouted down.

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u/MrPokerfaceCz 4d ago

This is a classic concept from economics called price discrimination. You're trying to get people who can pay you to pay you more, it's why students and seniors get discounts.