A good chunk of the biggest issues are outside of their general control to be honest. Hardware has gotten more expensive (Xbox is a good example of this), and for a portable system with that level of performance and functionality at $450, that's honestly pretty competitive. The Rog Ally MSRPs for 600 dollars, and that system isn't notably much better, if at all, relative to the Switch in performance and especially not the power efficiency. Pricing is fine in a value for hardware standpoint.
Alas, making a better system that much better satisfies what devs want to actually run their third parties and tariffs and so resulted in a price tag of 450, which produces more consumer hesitancy about buying the product.
And then on top of that, now we have increasing ram prices which increases COGS and decreases the profit margins on unit of hardware. And now Nintendo has the great options of taking the hit, losing money on every sale of a system, or passing on some of the price increase to the consumer, which still is a blow given that a good chunk of their revenue depends on having more people on their platform buying software. Very good options of losing some money which leads to lower profits and investors paying less of a stock because of the anticipations of lower profits relative to the initially forecasted before the ram prices, or losing some money.
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Re: Nintendo's Investors Are Reportedly "Spooked" As Stock Slides
A good chunk of the biggest issues are outside of their general control to be honest. Hardware has gotten more expensive (Xbox is a good example of this), and for a portable system with that level of performance and functionality at $450, that's honestly pretty competitive. The Rog Ally MSRPs for 600 dollars, and that system isn't notably much better, if at all, relative to the Switch in performance and especially not the power efficiency. Pricing is fine in a value for hardware standpoint.
Alas, making a better system that much better satisfies what devs want to actually run their third parties and tariffs and so resulted in a price tag of 450, which produces more consumer hesitancy about buying the product.
And then on top of that, now we have increasing ram prices which increases COGS and decreases the profit margins on unit of hardware. And now Nintendo has the great options of taking the hit, losing money on every sale of a system, or passing on some of the price increase to the consumer, which still is a blow given that a good chunk of their revenue depends on having more people on their platform buying software. Very good options of losing some money which leads to lower profits and investors paying less of a stock because of the anticipations of lower profits relative to the initially forecasted before the ram prices, or losing some money.