After a long wait, since early April, we already know each of the specifications that the Nintendo Switch 2 During marketing in early June, a console that considerably increased the price compared to the first generation, going from 329 dollars which cost the first generation Nintendo switch which was launched in 2017 469 dollars which costs the Nintendo 2 switch.
If it is true that Nintendo Switch 2 includes an important series of improvements compared to first generation models, except on the screen which is LCD and not OledThis increase in prices does not seem to have sits in the user community, or at least they did not prove to be massively.
The first thing that drew attention, knowing how Nintendo likes money, and once we know that the equipment is not the latest generation (something that has accustomed us) is the reason why the company would use to justify the increase in the console in console 140 dollars In 8 years. We had to wait for the Japanese company to announce its financial results corresponding to the last tax quarter to find out.
Nintendo Switch 2 less beneficiary margin
According to the president of Nintendo, Shuntaro Furukawa, in a question session with investments concerning income estimates for the next financial year:
The reason why we hope that the operating services index will decrease year after year in our consolidated profits forecasts is that the proportion of equipment sales should increase with the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 and we hope that the gross service index decreases because the Nintendo Switch 2 equipment has a lower profit margin than the Nintendo Switch equipment. The operating service ratio should decrease year after year, as well as the decrease in the raw service ratio
To compensate for the loss of income he obtains with the sale of the Casa console, now the reason why games For this console, they have increased prices, which you must pay for the versions Rasque games already available for the original switch, that the subscription Nintendo Switch online be practically compulsory (like PlayStation) and a key format for games instead of the traditional cartridge Storage
All these measures are intended to alleviate the lower income that the company will obtain for each sale and, just as Sony would also do, want to tighten to its users all that can, a movement that we cannot deny, would make another company. Although many users do not see this in this way, companies must earn money, they are not an NGO, although no one likes to be forced to pay more for the same thing, on several occasions, there is no choice.
Sony Y Microsoft They also recently announced an increase in prices of their consoles. While Sony only increased the price of the PS5 in digital format, Microsoft has increased the price of the two models, both from the Xbox S series and the Xbox X series.
