Nintendo wants to compete in a new type of console war
Nintendo wants to compete in a new type of console war
by cubechris
10 Comments
Adrian_Alucard
With those prices it looks like they want to lose
[deleted]
Do they really? How do you know this is the case?
SilentSasquatch2
If their prices approach or surpass the competition with lesser hardware they are going to lose, it’s that simple really. They were in the sweet spot for Switch 1 and couldn’t help themselves after their success
TracyLimen
90€ games
2ndMin
Dawg they’re going to war with consumers
xDante13x
I’m curious to see what the cost of the new Xbox and PS6 will be.
Nintendo could turn out to still be the cheaper option depending on what PlayStation or Microsoft to do in the future.
Don’t forget get that the switch came out three years before the series x or ps5.
Hestu951
So many complaints about prices. Realistically, the best we could have expected is $400 for the system and $70 for the big games. A $50 system premium and a $10 game premium are not going to derail the sales of the next Switch. Anyone dreaming of Nintendo “coming to their senses” because of poor sales is in for a rude awakening.
Also, real inflation since 2020 has been worse than many of us realize. It’s like 30%, but even at a rosier figure like 15%, these prices are not out of line.
CptSpeedydash
Nintendo is the last one holding onto a console war. The other two have either mostly or completely left it behind doing multiplatform first-party games.
MiloHawkins
> Inexplicably, Microsoft and Sony burned an entire hardware cycle without answering the Switch’s key selling point: portability.
RIGHT?! The Switch has been the second-most successful console of all time, it clearly owes a big part of that success to its handheld design, and yet we HAVEN’T all been constantly asking when the other big two are going to do their version? Everyone really just decided that this was a weird Nintendo fad that no one else should even try? Like, even before the Deck, I assumed “chunkier handheld that gets marketed as the “grown-up” Switch was an obvious winner.
Conscious_Scholar_87
Let’s deal with the tariff war first. I’m bit stressed with 2 wars at the same time
10 Comments
With those prices it looks like they want to lose
Do they really? How do you know this is the case?
If their prices approach or surpass the competition with lesser hardware they are going to lose, it’s that simple really. They were in the sweet spot for Switch 1 and couldn’t help themselves after their success
90€ games
Dawg they’re going to war with consumers
I’m curious to see what the cost of the new Xbox and PS6 will be.
Nintendo could turn out to still be the cheaper option depending on what PlayStation or Microsoft to do in the future.
Don’t forget get that the switch came out three years before the series x or ps5.
So many complaints about prices. Realistically, the best we could have expected is $400 for the system and $70 for the big games. A $50 system premium and a $10 game premium are not going to derail the sales of the next Switch. Anyone dreaming of Nintendo “coming to their senses” because of poor sales is in for a rude awakening.
Also, real inflation since 2020 has been worse than many of us realize. It’s like 30%, but even at a rosier figure like 15%, these prices are not out of line.
Nintendo is the last one holding onto a console war. The other two have either mostly or completely left it behind doing multiplatform first-party games.
> Inexplicably, Microsoft and Sony burned an entire hardware cycle without answering the Switch’s key selling point: portability.
RIGHT?! The Switch has been the second-most successful console of all time, it clearly owes a big part of that success to its handheld design, and yet we HAVEN’T all been constantly asking when the other big two are going to do their version? Everyone really just decided that this was a weird Nintendo fad that no one else should even try? Like, even before the Deck, I assumed “chunkier handheld that gets marketed as the “grown-up” Switch was an obvious winner.
Let’s deal with the tariff war first. I’m bit stressed with 2 wars at the same time