Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Knuckles-Fajita I hope you find better opportunities. All the best

@1UP_MARIO
@Knuckles-Fajita salary is Bigger than me.
I got IDR 3,100,000 / US$ 200 from my School + IDR 400,00 / US$ 33 from my Private lesson.
With my current salary, i can buy 3 - 4 games by Maximum (assume 1 game = $ 40 - $ 50)

@Anti-Matter Different standard of living, at Indo we can eat with even $1 or lower per time eating, w hile there it's at minimum 4-10 per eating. Not to count rent and stuff, unless you are saying you pay rent to your parents since iirc you say you are still living with them?

@Knuckles-Fajita I think you're paying too much tax. There's a tax free allowance of ~£10k a year, so you should only be paying 20% on anything you earn over that (so like £50 a month?)

@1UP_MARIO This is my best opportunity with high chance for progression within the company.

@Buizel is right, I'm in the wrong tax code but the good news is, I either get the overpayments back to me from HMRC or the company does it for me in the subsequent paycheque.

@Buizel tax free allowance of £11850 or near that but your right

@darkfenrir
I still live with my Mom , my Auntie and my siblings (two young brothers).
My siblings run my Dad's business as Building materials & household tools shop owner. My Mom manage the money from income & outcome from the, shop. My Auntie just helping my Mom to prepare the meals & stay at home by mostly with my house assistant.

Me and my two siblings are still SINGLE , while my youngest sister has been married last year. She lives on her husband new house.

Yeah, eating in Indonesia can be very Cheap (IDR 11,000 - IDR 30,000 or $ 0.90 - $ 2.00). There is a menu consist a plate of Salty fish Fried rice + a glass of Ice Tea just for IDR 15,000 or US$ 1.00

@Anti-Matter Yeah, since you didn't pay for rent + food I assume, you can spend all of your income on games. Meanwhile his pay is downright around Rp 2.500.000 or 3.000.000 maybe, for paying rent and food and everything if I guess right.

@Knuckles-Fajita I'm going to guess Jax doesn't have a $4000 bi-weekly (the usual in the US) check, and actually meant that if you divide how much it costs per-paycheck period that's how much the service is costing per week/month, not the total cost. I mean he absolutely could be getting that much which would put him near the $200,000/yr mark . Which absolutely could be true.....if he happens to be an upper tier executive for a large corporation, high level research scientist, doctor, successful lawyer that made partner, an indispensable advertising/sales juggernaut, entertainment personality, etc. etc. But considering he hangs out in the break room playing Switch, I'm going to guess he's not any of those things and is probably not in the top 10% percentile of US incomes. I'm guessing he does quite well for himself given he spends quite exorbitantly (not that I'm one to talk) on gaming, but not quite that order of doing well

@Anti-Matter keep in mind K-F is in the UK so healthcare isn't nearly as messed up as the US, but in the US it's not uncommon for healthcare to be $1000+/mo (even if you've never used it once), rent/mortgage to be $1000+/mo and that excludes food, utilities etc (places like NYC you're up to $3000/mo for a rat infested ghetto shack). Cost of living is extraordinary, so the big numbers you see here are often less actual "disposable income" than in seemingly "poorer" countries. And the minimum wage is the same as the UK! So the big numbers are pretty misleading. They go out faster than they come in.

Well not having any other hobbies outside of gaming helps heaps too. I don't really go out to eat often, I don't really have a social life, etc. The other hobbies I have are cheap ones like writing and reading (where I can bike/drive to the bookstore and read).

@NEStalgia
Well, actually it was 4400 (2750 take home after all the BS) But that's kind of an outlier. It would be half that amount with no OT, and I've been doing a lot lately. 3,000 is pretty typical I'd say. Some OT but not too much.

I fully recognize incomes vary. But Im middle class in the 50k - 75k range still. Technically I'd be right at 50k without any OT. Which is actually below the average income level believe it or not.

Still, even a min wage job, say $600 a biweekly check... it's still only 3% of a single check to cover all year. I mean, anyone who can afford video games as a hobby, with $300 systems and $60 games... is gonna have a hard time convincing me 3% of a single minimum wage check once per year is "a lot".

@JaxonH Yeah, I somehow imagined you weren't a 200k bigshot livin' large playing Switch in the hot tub of your limo with a Playboy bunny in each arm. (And it would take a lot of cash to pay a Playboy bunny to spend time in a limo with a Nintendo nerd )

50k below average? Gotta' be either NYC, Beltway, CA, or one of the other overpriced major cities (yeah, including where I am It wasn't always that way. People fled those places, they showed up and converted the area to some luxury paradise.) Still well above average most places, but still the middle of the road I presumed.

The bunnies will have to wait. And this year had 2 MH releases so they'll have to wait quite some time.

Edit: Well, unless you count the only bunny a Nintendo fan ever dreams of:

There's an important aspect of this that's caught my eye.

"$600 biweekly"

There's the difference. You guys get $600 minimum every fortnight to last a mere two weeks.

I get what I get every 4 weeks, to cover everything for the next 4 weeks. There is a lot less freedom available when it has to last over a longer period, even if it works out around the same amount as two biweekly cheques, the real impact is less security as your next payday draws closer.

Id prefer biweekly, as it makes sudden bills a lot more manageable without making 2-3 weeks a stressful experience.

Regardless, everyone has different incomes and different uses for that income. I get £800-£900 every 4 weeks for rent, council tax, pet insurance, food, Adobe CC, my website, one month's groceries and animal food.

And yeah you could say "Well why do you have a £280 system if you cant afford the £17.99 a year?" well, think about when the system came out. Think how long ago that was and how different my situation could have been back then. £2000 a month different. Lot's of prospects. Now here I am.

Funny that I couldn't predict a mere £17.99 being an issue but then again I guess that's my fault for not magically knowing my mother would be put out of work with illness, my education would collapse and I'd end up back home having to job hunt for a year until I finally nailed a minimum wage full time gig.

If you play with a switch while holding a person in each arm, that's more like a double choke hold.

Sorry to hear that man... I sincerely hope you're coping well and that you'll keep enjoying gaming even though you have less money to spend for it.

@Knuckles-Fajita Heck I remember when pay was weekly. The switch to bi-weekly was devastating. I have no idea how it ever came to be acceptable to get paid monthly, ever. At that point, a life of crime sounds like the most lucrative idea. If you're interested in buying some old Soviet nukes and raining glow-in-the-dark joy around the world, let me know the time and place, I'll help, no payment required.

@Yosheel Only if you need to click LS/RS.

@DarthNocturnal It's ok, we have cloud saves now!

@DarthNocturnal After the limo, hot tub in a limo, and bunnies, you're still worried about the Switch's price being a waste?

Why waste a few hundred on a regular switch when you could spend several thousand on a custom built solid gold switch.

@Yosheel You just said that on the internet. Now it's going to become a thing and that makes me sad.

Dear hypotetical random wealthy internet celebrity who read that and plans to make it a reality:

... Can I have one of the gold joycon? I'd settle for a silver one, really.