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Re: Mailbox: Switch 2 Price Drops, Remake Replacements, Pokémon Acquisitions - Nintendo Life Letters

Mommar

@Pat_trick It's not that either. They aren't responsible for you, anyway.

They lack situational awareness.

It is training the Corporations it's okay to charge more. If they raise the price and the market doesn't react negatively, or negatively enough, that's the new price.

I can afford $80 for a game, but I don't want to pay $80 for every game and I don't want to train Nintendo to do this. It's a dumb tactic to negotiate a price upwards.

Re: Switch 2 Predicted To Cost "$400 Or More"

Mommar

@TenEighty That would make sense except if you follow the inflation rate all of those numbers track pretty well from the 80's to 2017. It's after that things get completely messed up. Every point along the way you're looking at a $20-$40 split which would explain the $50 upticks. Even the extra charge for the OLED makes sense in 22(?) tracks. Between 17 and now it's nearly $100 so the system jumping to $399 makes sense. They didn't always go to the next $50 bound on the systems (manufacturing and parts fluctuate within that), so a $379 might be feasible. But things have gone pretty sideways the last few years.