Is Nintendo Switch 2 very expensive?

Without any word, Nintendo dealt with the price of switch 2 and its imagination in Livestream. Only a look at the store appeared: 470 euros for switch, 80 euros for digital copy of “Mario Cart World”.

Did Nintendo not spoil the presentation with such unpleasant details? Or was the pricing not only final when the stream was produced? After all, all developers also had to call a duty -off to “the day the switch 2 appears” instead of a real appointment. Apparently they were recorded before Nintendo caught a certain date.

Whatever came about it, Nintendo had a price for switch in its direct livestream on Wednesday: it really helped. Discussion on the Internet mainly revolves around the pricing of new console: im Nintendo Sabredit Sports prices settle. Sports in all It is complained that Nintendo also demands money for his technical demo called “Welcome Tour” and later there was a chat of Nintendo-Treehouse-livestream Flood with countless “leave price”,

Play even more expensive on data carrier

In particular, fans of the game on the price adjustment collectors and data carriers of the nintendo already cost 80 euros in the digital version of the “Mario Cart World”, the Nintendo demands 90 euros for the data carrier. It should be noted that some upcoming game for switch 2 is also not playing with data carriers – The card only faces download on “Street Fighter 6”,

In comparison to the switch, the price change becomes clear: the cost of the standard model of the console costs a cost of 330 euros in the market launch, so it was 140 euros cheaper than the switch 2. Full value games were still 70 euros, with switch 2, at least 80.

Inflation and increased production costs

The increase in the price of switch 2 can be easily explained: Inflation has been eating the profit margin of sports companies over yearsProduction costs have increased for hardware. In addition, there is uncertainty about the impacts of adjacent trade war that has been discontinued by the American Trump government and which was already indicated at the time of the announcement of Switch 2. We also see high prices for other games hardware: Sony called for 800 euros for Playstation 5. And if you want to put 4K-compatible graphics card in your computer, then you have to spend a quantity of four digits.

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We are also looking at the trend in pricing of video games: 80 Euros were established for full -pristed game after years, companies like Square Enix have been experimenting with high prices for the first time. Meanwhile, Sony also demands 80 euros for its blockbuster game, and the “call of duty” game now costs 80 euros. The 90 Euro that Nintendo says for its physical blockbuster game is at least a new highlight in recent years. Because Inflationary sports in the 80s and 90s were sometimes more expensive.,

All this is a small consolation for those who were ready to switch 2, but may have been closed now. But players on other platforms are also not sure about the price hike: Epilion analyst Matthew Ball assumes that developers are only waiting for their next opportunities to further increase their game prices. So many people hoped on the upcoming “GTA 6”This can cause limits with a new value-high value.

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