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Which is both depressing and confusing considering the sharply increased price on games and the system itself coupled with the increase in wealth disparity. If I were a conspiracy theorist type, I would say rich people/companies are buying systems at an extreme rate in an attempt to normalize the increasing prices and further erode the middle class.
The original Switch was constantly sold out. I assume there were supply issues. It’s likely that it would have outsold the Switch 2 if they’d had the same supply.
No conspiracy. High prices are already normalized. Companies have been setting record breaking profits by just straight up increasing prices for no reason since 2019. I also wonder how this hasn't affected sales but I guess people had a lot more money then they realized. Had.
It's been going on much longer than that, it's what companies do. If they can get away with it, they increase prices.
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How is it confusing? It's a quality product with quality games. The numbers speak for themselves. There's a massive disconnect on forums like these about the popularity and demand for Nintendo products.
This is the exact stupid type of comment that’s been infuriating to hear during all this “boycott nintendo!” bullshit. The Switch came out 10 years ago and cost $300. Inflation has skyrocketed. When you compare the price of the S2, adjusted for inflation, it’s not even the most or second most expensive console nintendo has sold.
I genuinely can’t believe these fucking complaints. They basically mashed a Wii and a Nintendo DS together, vastly improved the graphics and basically the quality overall in its entirety, and only charge $450. That’s the price of one single concert ticket. That’s half the price of a decent smartTV that won’t last half as long. And my Switch is still going 10 years later with heavy use, I anticipate the S2 to do the same.
It’s just crazy. The Switch 2 is one of the only quality products on the fucking market that’s not been completely enshittified sold my a major corporation, and yalls are still bitching and whining. Drives me fucking insane the things this generation gets mad at and boycotts while giving free fucking passes to the likes of microsoft, sony, etc.
Not being enshittified? Game carts that are just game keys that we don’t own? Ad software being sold as an “experience”? Still using sticks that drift when the last console suffered from the same issue?