>$499.99>Only game is Pokotpia
>>738451960At what point do these sort of consumer electronic devices suddenly start to no longer be appealing as a hobby.
https://www.coolshop.dk/produkt/nintendo-switch-2-pokemon-legends-z/23SR48/switch 2 already costs over €600 here in yuropoor
lol
Interesting they are announcing the increase months before the actual date.
>>738452792maybe people will panic and buy one right away haha
>>738452807If they wanted that they would have pulled a Sony and given them a week.
>tell people to buy a switch 2 when it was $400 during the holidays because the price will increase due to the increasing costs of memory and storage>fanboys tell me a price increase will never happen because nintendo is a good boy and will never raise the console priceThis is the least surprising price hike of all time, but I've got double birds up for the retarded tendies that browse this board.
>>738452792Probably to give people time to get one for the holiday season before the price goes up.
>>738451960Remember when games consoles would reduce in cost the longer they were on market and and as technology advanced?It's genuinely staggering how utterly fucked the world has gotten.
>>738451960Still one game more than the PS5.
>>738451960You realize switch 2 has more exclusives in 1 year than the PS5's lifetime?
>>738451960>$499>€499Why are yuros charged a higher price per console anyways?
>>738451960So online is only going up in slant-eyed countries? Americans literally can't stop winning.
even more reason to skip out on it until they hack it
>>738453143Because taxes are already included. In reality we pay more or less the same as muricans.
>>738453143No interest in console gaming over there.
>>738453251You'd want to buy one now then both for the lower price and the possibility of an exploit that they didn't catch.
>>738453073I remember buying a PS4 on black friday for $200 in 2017, 4 years after it came out. Last year the cheapest PS5 with a disc drive I could find during BF was $400, for a 5 year old console. And now it's $650 after the price hike. It is genuinely over.
>>738453251Yeah wait for a revision model with better security or whatever. You're so smart anon holy.
>>738451960>Mario Kart World>Donkey Kong Bananza>Kirby Air Riders>Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment >Mario Tennis Fever>Pokemon Pokopia>Yoshi and the Mysterious Book>Star Fox>Splatoon Raiders>Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave
>Got a PS5 for 350 during black friday>Got a MKW SW2 bundle for 450 also during black fridayGoddamn finally impulse buying is paying off for once
>>738453478gaming consoles are now appreciable assets. people are gonna be able to sell their used consoles for a profit.
>>738452874Their shareholders were pressuring them to increase profit margins. We’re no longer in an economy where the customer comes first.
>>738453143European prices have no actual meaning or basis in reality most of the time since every country have their own taxes, purchasing power and currencies.A Switch 2 is already around €500 in my country, even before the price hike.
>>738452648Got mine in pandereta country for 470€ in launch day on scamazon, although companies get too free with pricing in euro countries, at least it's not as bad as non euro countries.
>>738451960>can't even write correctlylooks like you're coping and seething lmao
Glad I bought two launch models.One legit and one to keep in box until hacks come.
>>738451960It's a little funny that people read as Nintendo fans thought they wouldn't raise the price of Switch 2 when just last year they were the *only* console manufacturer to increase the price of their LAST GEN console while the new one was on shelves. Gnats have longer memories than some of the people online.
>>738453475Is this the saddest library out of any Nintendo console? Not counting meme shit like the Virtual Boy. Even the Wii U had some games that I kind of wanted to play.
>>738453143Euro prices have to include taxes by law. Americans don't for whatever reason.
>>738453608>We’re no longer in an economy where the customer comes first.That hasn't been the case since the Ford v Dodge ruling. Shareholders have always come first, it's just that in the past every company had major competition so they had to keep prices competitive but these massive corporations bought out or merged with all the competition so now they don't have much competition at all.
>>738453731You weren't born when Wii U was out.
>>738453703nice conjecture.
>>738453270>. In reality we pay more or less the same as muricans.That's a clear bold lie, if you do the currency change, apply the around 20% VAT, it's far less money that they're charging, they just take advantage of europeans having higher taxes as an excuse to charge much more than they get taxed.For example most euro countries have trade deals with other producer countries to not apply tariffs and all that shit, yet products coming from those countries still cost a lot more at change than they cost in USD + tax.Literally bought a 600€ watch from singapore this past christmas and they only made me pay 35€ tariffs on it, if I bought it on a local store it would have costed me over 800 or 900€ for the same exact model.
>>738453703Yeah it was pretty clear that the Switch 1 price increase was just a way for them to stave off increasing the Switch 2's price so close to it's launch. It was always going to happen, they just wanted to delay it as much as possible. At least it wasn't as big of an increase as the PS5 or Xbox's were, but only time will tell if we get another one.
>>738453608It has nothing to do with shareholders, but with tariffs, increased prices of components and shipping across the world.They are giving people 4 months notice because the customer comes first.
>>738452874Akhually there was a real incentive for Nintendo to not raise the prices. The sooner they raise the less users will they have in the long run. Sony could raise prices because they won't sell many PS5s more and they already have the install base.
>>738451960Series S is 399.99. And the more expensive Switch 2 isn't getting the most relevant game ever.
>>738453751I still don't get how americans are totally ok with seeing a price and then getting to the cashier and finding out that between tax and tip the price almost doubles
>>738453475It's sad that both of those Mario titles suck ass.
>>738453925>tfw the series s was $200 just a few years ago
>>738452874Fanboys are retarded, more news at 11. Although it's interesting that Nintendo cite the Iran conflict as the main cause, rather than the current AI bubble.
>>738453475>MK8 is better.>Soulless Mario Odyssey clone...no.>overhyped and forgotten after a day.>Terrible Mosou slop.>can't even beat n64 and gc from 30 years ago.> sure.>it's more crafted world slop.. just give up.>ist star fox 64 for the THIRD!!!! time, no.>nobodx cares.>only shit that could be good
>>738453983Still cheaper.
>>738453925>$400 for a digital only consoleGenuinely why the fuck do we have to suffer like this?
The first switch was carried by the wii u's library, nobody bought a wii u but the system did get some good games. The switch 2 is currently getting carried by the switch library which everyone has already exausted.
>>73845417295 percent of game sales are digital. Average normie couldn't care less.
>>738453927What fucking state are you thinking of where taxes and tips would almost double what you're paying?
>>738453703There is a difference between calling you out for spamming PRICE HIKE TWO MORE WEEKS every day for the past year and insisting it will never happen.I called it half a year ago, gnat-kun.>when just last year they were the *only* console manufacturer to increase the price of their LAST GEN console while the new one was on shelves. Yeah. Because Sony and MS immediately stopped manufacturing last gen consoles so people couldn't buy them for $250 and had to buy the new $500 no game boxes.
>already bought the Switch 2 with a stack of gift cards>the membership price increase is just for the asiansSo a big nothingburger for me.
>>738453475literally the only game that interests me there is splatoon raiders. jesus christ.
>>738454656I don't fucking know who you are to come spazzing at me about some shit you got into with some other idiot 6 months ago. Congrats you weren't a mentally addled moron that thought Nintendo was either A) Resistant to "global economic factors"tm or B) Gracious enough to ignore them especially after they already showed they were neither. You, however, still are quite dumb for playing defense for increasing prices of old tech. Nobody cares if it's still in manufacturing.
>>738454318When you start adding taxes, tips, tariffs and bribes the price gets kinda insane
>>738453703>when just last year they were the *only* console manufacturer to increase the price of their LAST GEN console while the new one was on shelvesYou do know the ps4 had a price increase as a result of the tariffs too much like the switch 1, right?
>>738451960Nintendo is ass raping Sony, Microsoft and Valve so hard bros
>>738455671Surely you can provide an official statement from Sony saying they increased the price of the PS4 and PS4 controllers. You wouldn't just lie on the internet, would you?
>>738452648Only 453 before VAT. And there are several ways to avoid VAT for large purchases.
>>738455392>Ad hominem schizo babble Of course lol>Nobody cares if it's still in manufacturingOf course people care. One day you could buy PS4 for $250 and the second you are forced to buy PS5 for $500 because PS4 has been discontinued.
>>738453270>Because taxes are already included. True>In reality we pay more or less the same as muricans.Lmao, no. Sales tax in the USA can be 0-10% depending on the state. And its common for people to drive to Delaware or NH just to go shopping at 0%. Its around 25% in EU countries.
>>738453927Because it keeps the tax rate low. People raise a big stink whenever they try to raise taxes because its right in your face. And it works.
>>738456373>Ad hominem schizo babbleYou're the one who came at me over some retarded ass post you, who I've never spoken with before, made 6 months ago to someone else about some two more weeks bullshit. Fuck off with your passive aggressive whinging.>One day you could buy PS4 for $250 and the second you are forced to buy PS5 for $500L M A O
>Bananza>Both zelda games at an actual playable fps/graphical fidelity >Starfox 64 remake next month>Duskbloods eventually>Pokopia>Next gen pokemon game that doesnt look/run like hot dogshitOff the top of my head. Ive started playing BotW again now that its quiet at my place and I can play it through my speakers instead of headphones since I wanted to use the phone app for the bonus stuff which doesnt really work when using headphones.
>>738453079>>738453142>>738453475Anything that can compete with GTA6?
>>738451960>>738452648got my switch 2 for 360 eurobucks thanks to a retarded good ebay discount. Now i can play until the switch 2 oled releases and sell it for 300
>>738456065>*crickets*
