Topic: Should Nintendo Sells Their Consoles for $350-$400?

Only if you report beating their games, take a picture of the game ending you beat.

@LinkxPeach
Major issue for who ?
I bought Nintendo Switch V1 on 24 December 2017 with current MSRP price and i didn't even complain with the MSRP price.
Save your money then buy the machine once you have enough budget.
Nintendo will not selling their consoles with under $300 for first launch just to please you.
Making new machines cost more money.
And do you think Wii is still $300 on this year ?
I got an used Wii machine in March 2015 with just IDR 1,500,000 or US$ 105.24
Wii is cheap to get on this year.

Should be 250, but Nintendo has used it's magical charm and is now getting a extra 50$ for the same hardware but with a new screen. And you know Nintendo fans have already Pre-ordered it.

@GrailUK Imagine paying 350$ for the same thing with just a new screen.

@LinkxPeach I beat Mario kart 8 the other day but forgot to take photos. I’m gonna try again and take photos and email Nintendo so they can give me monies.

@Fangleman32 Aw man, I bet Monkeyball will look fresh on that thing.

I’m angry at myself for reading this whole post.

@Pirate1 Yeah, I lost a couple of precious IQ points. I don't really have that many to burn

@LinkxPeach hay, yeah I remember gamecube. Mine's 20 years old now and still works fine, I remember it cost 380 Irish pound which would be about 530 euro now. There was two free games with it which would be around 50 Irish pound each, which would be 140 euro. I got luigis mansion and burnout. So yes as you said gamecube was decent . And I never had to get my gamecube serviced or fixed.👍👍

Is it school holidays already?

I read the title and thought there would be some rant about how consoles are too expensive or cheap these days. Was ready to roll out an excel sheet and an inflation calculator to drop some hard facts on the table. Then I read the first post.......

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So here's some hard facts to drop on the table:

Now I have no idea what this graph says in the context of this thread because I have no idea what the context of this thread IS. But fair to say that Nintendo has always charged about the same amount for their "home" consoles. The Switch Lite being the exception. Also the OLED Model is actually only just marginally Nintendo's most expensive piece of hardware, relatively, since the SNES.

Traditionally Nintendo has charged prices closer to the XBox Series S which I added here. BTW, the Sony/MS consoles on this graph? All except the XBox Series X and PS5 Disk model are the CHEAPER skus...... excluding the OLED model and assuming RRP (ha!) this is the cheapest console generation

One assume here the Switch is v2 they are selling. Unless this is OLED then they are Scalpers and need to ferret out. If this is old Switch no one will buy it at that price-without verification of clean and in working order.

No, they weren't. Yes, the Switch launched at $300, but the NES, SNES, N64 and GC launched at $200, the Wii at $250 and the WiiU at $350.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/is-the-us-market-ready...

@TSR3
Inflation is a thing. I mean I litterally posted a chart showing launch prices of every console since the 70s a couple of posts before yours. Colour coded for the 4 main players in this space. Technically the Gamecube was Nintendo's cheapest console but even that was just barely under $300US in 2020 dollars. The SNES was almost $400US by the same measure and pretty much every "home console" Nintendo has released has lived between those two prices

Nintendo has pretty much always charged about the same despite their competitors frequently charging a fair amount more. Especially in the early 90s when companies were trying to get optical media into their consoles. The only thing that's kinda unusual about now is that Microsoft has a lower tier SKU that's price competitive with Nintendo's more expensive than typical OLED Model. But RRP means nothing in 2021

@skywake I love your charts That one you posted yesterday reminded me of the Art Technica article I read last year. You're so right to flag up inflation. I've seen a few posts critical of the (US) $350 price of the new OLED model. But if you compare $300 from 2017, that's the equivalent of $336 now. That's well within the typical launch price of a Nintendo home console, in real terms.

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

@TSR3
Yep. And on-top of that there's also the price of games which has remained rather static over the years which actually means games have got cheaper. But probably even more so when you go back and look at game prices on the N64

COVID supply issues excluded, tech and particularly gaming has gone down in price. Which to be fair says nothing. I had a look at some of the receipts for the PC I built in late 2019. I spent $430AU on a 1660Ti, the current retail price for that same card is $750AU and the current gen equivalent a 3060ti is $1200AU..... so when I say thing are getting cheaper just ignore the last 2 years.....

@skywake ... And ignore the next 2 years as well, by the looks of recent news!

Back to the title of the post, I think $350 is completely reasonable for the OLED model, and $400 is going to be reasonable by the time a Switch 4K model/Switch 2 comes out in a couple of years.

Hello people, need help! I’m looking to buy the switch but don’t know if I should wait till the new switch oled comes out, I only want to use the switch docked because I already have the switch lite, is it worth waiting for the oled switch to come out to get a reduction in price for the non oled one? I would go go get the oled one but the flicker of oled screens gives me headaches and light sensitivity. I’m currently looking at the switch mario deluxe 8 deal on curry website for 299, will it get much cheaper than that? Any recommended places to buy a cheap switch? Any help with be appreciated.

@Indecisiveguy Put this way v2 is the same hardware as the OLED nothing changed beyond the color scheme and 6.5 to 7 inch size. If your Docking then a v2 works just fine and if you get it new for 299.99usd that's even better. It's not going to drop anytime soon buddy - your dreaming if you think a OLED is going to cause v2 price to drop it might do the opposite where people going looking for v2 and price instead goes up. Buy the v2 and save for the Switch 2.0HD or Super Switch when that arrive with GPU to backup the horsepower. I got v2 and yes I want a OLED but then again I Docked as some graphics turn down when Portable like MH2 Stories and I miss the nice of it. Save that extra money for a 1tb micro sd and have more storage for DLC/updates/eShop downloads.

Someone says that the Nintendo 64, and Nintendo GameCube costs $300. Also, I believed that the Nintendo Wii costs about $300 at launch.