Seriously, why are they an expensive brand now? I'm 100% a poorfag but I was able to afford shit for all of their systems pre COVID Nintendo. Bought the Wii, Wii U and Switch 1 at launch mostly because the systems were cheap and most of the cost was on the first party games, plus the third parties are always cheap on their consoles.

I don't get why they pivoted away from being the accessible brand that any family could buy and are trying to turn into this weird Apple of videogames shit. I get that the loyal Nintendo fans with a big wallet are gonna be there no matter what, but how can you realistically grow your brand when you start pricing people out? Obviously I'm salty because long term this shit isn't affordable for me but still, why?

it has literally one dogshit game anon who gives a fuck?

PS6 and new Xbox will launch at $600 minimum and everyone will forget they thought Switch 2 was expensive

>>715503641 (OP)
Because neither snoy or xbone are giving them any competition whatsoever.
Back in the day the 3DS got a massive price cut because nintendo got spooked by the vita's price announcement.
Nowadays snoy keeps trying to sale a nogaems machine costing a grand plus disk drive DLC.

>>715503641 (OP)
450 dollars for a console is not an unreasonable asking price.
The most dubious thing is the 70, sometimes 80 dollar games.

>>715503641 (OP)
The Jews destroyed the economy since 2020 because that's been the plan all along.

Switch 2 hate is kinda forced ngl

>>715504376
The 3DS price cut was because it wasn’t selling well at the time, it had nothing to do with the Vita.

>>715504456
It's perfectly warranted when people are being sold something with a worse screen than the previous one, has controllers that are still built to fail, and Nintendo doubles down on aspects of their game people felt divided about

>>715505131
Reminder the eceleb shilling his totally legit 50ms of lag tested it through a blurry jewtube video.

>>715503641 (OP)
They priced it in accordance to Trump's tariffs. It's cheaper in Japan. People don't want that economic uncertainty

>>715505271
Of course it's cheaper in Japan, it's made there.

>>715503641 (OP)
They need to maximize profits and revenues so investors don't force them to port their games to phones.

>>715504412
You could go all the way back to 2008. Prior to 2008 was the last time you could buy candy bars for 50 cents and a midnight run to taco bell cost $5 to feed 4 people. My rent in 2007 was $550 then shot up to $800 a year later for no rhyme or reason. In 2020 the same place now costs $2000.

>>715503641 (OP)
>now
Nintendo always shits the bed when they're ahead. They're historically only good when they're running bankrupt.
It doesn't help that all their competition shot themselves in the foot several dozen times in a row. MS doesn't make consoles anymore and Sony doesn't make games.

>>715503641 (OP)
It's not expensive at all for what it offers, did you see the new xbox handhelds prices? Way higher, and they don't come with physical cartridge slot, a dock and detachable joycons. Not to mention that PS6 is going to cost at least $999.
A $10 premium on their most high-quality exclusives is worth it, considering you're often paying only $10 for timed exclusives nobody cares about on other platforms (and even those are rare so you're probably buying multiplats almost always).

>>715505612
*only $10 less

>>715505612
the xbox rog is a switch 4

>>715505131
>It's perfectly warranted
Nah but we won't stop you from putting on a show for us.

>>715503641 (OP)
Because your government has been intentionally stealing the value of your money since before you were born.

>>715505612
>A $10 premium on their most high-quality exclusives is worth it,
the premium is actually from the SDXC carts that come at a minimum of 64gb and no less
third parties actually releasing in-cart also do the 10-15 bucks markup over the switch 1 version, if any

>715505929
>the xbox rog is a switch 4
no it isn't, your sentence doesn't even make sense

>>715505612
The new "Xbox handheld" is a rog ally and priced as a rog ally.

>>715506102
it wouldn't be less expensive if it were not a rog ally, retard-kun.

>>715506242
It wouldn't exist if it wasn't a rog ally.

>>715505612
>The PS6 is going to cost atleast $999
source? citation? the pricing costs retarded even with the existence of the low volume 5 Pro at 699

>>715505271
The prices were already set before tariffs

How bout you try not being broke, bucko.

>>715503641 (OP)
OLED already 350$

This one has updated hardware, more storage, and uses a new type of tech for SD card (a reading speed is rival SSD), and only 100$ more expensive. (the battery actually bigger size than OLED)

I would say 100$ more is fair price for upgrade comparing it with the switch 1 spec

>>715503641 (OP)
The "good" Wii U model was 400 dollars. Switch 2 isn't that expensive but the games are.

>>715503641 (OP)
It's not

The price is fine but the dogshit screen and the sticks on the joycon still dogshit is a major stop for me. Waiting for the «fixed» version

>>715503641 (OP)
it's the economy
your money is losing value
we're in the final stages of this financial system before they roll out CBDCs and you own nothing
https://youtu.be/zCpjmvaIgNA?t=404

here is your life in 2030
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEUzKTt7j0

>>715509253
you are 12 and you retarded but yes killing the middle class is le bad

>>715503641 (OP)
Because they know they have a lock on casuals and normalfags, and of course their cultists. They essentially have a monopoly in the handheld space right now so they can just be as shitty as they want. Unless Valve starts doing actual advertising for the Deck and lining Walmart shelves with it, that won't change.

>>715509394
Anon, the Steam Deck is almost half a decade old and was already a low-end unit when it launched way back then.
You can currently get a used laptop for under $300 that outperforms the Deck on top of being a laptop.

Ask Trump

>>715509636
It's still objectively a much better handheld than the Switch 2 is.
>on top of being a laptop.
Which would make it far worse as a handheld gaming device.

>>715509758
Ok PC vegan.

>>715505612
>, did you see the new xbox handhelds prices? Way higher,
Rog Ally is not an Xbox device, it's a portable PC.
By that logic it being $1000 still makes it a better offer because you'll save a ton on steam/epic store sales and just games being cheaper in general. Nintendo almost never discounts their games and even third party games have to be more expensive due to the retarded cartridge media.

>>715503641 (OP)
There’s no pivot. They committed to selling their consoles at a profit unlike Sony and MS. Blame AI and Crypto for ballooning the prices of GPUs.