Given the tariff position, I’m curious if this will be the first time Nintendo decides to eat the loss on console hardware sales; something usually only other console makers have done.

Perhaps they think Trump will be on his way out. Or they’re eating into their cash reserves to prevent discussion of their consoles from getting political.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Given the outcry over the price, I think they have no choice but to eat the loss. They can't drop the price, but they can't raise it either. They'll just have to hope that they can bring down manufacturing costs over time.

[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell yeah brother, sign me up for that Mario Kart bundle.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Still gonna skip this and hope for a 3DS-like price drop around the holidays. I'm really hoping Nintendo misses their sales targets big time because fuck these prices.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm so unimpressed with their release lineup as well. They've just done the same thing they always do, and made a minority improved Mario Cart and a lackluster Pokémon game. Or, and a tutorial, don't forget that.

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Very unlikely that they even could drop the price with the tariff situation.

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not going to happen. US customers are lucky that Nintendo won't increase the console price.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Personally, I'm at the point of "fuck walled garden ecosystems", not to mention all the legal work they're doing to ruin video games.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a pretty good take on all of this. MS, Sony and Nintendo have done nothing but enshitify their platforms in the past few years and yet, they increase the cost of admission at every enshitification step.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Consoles just have a dwindling list of use cases, so trying to create problems that furthers their use is going to have much the same effect as cable companies trying to pretend that streaming video services don't exist.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah we're very quickly getting to the point that consoles are just moot.

With linux support increasing , I expect that to escalate since a lot more hardware will be in reach for running games.

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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

If there a good enough games out for it, then I might consider getting one when the budget version gets released.

But, we will see not if there is stick drift and stuff like that.

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