Former Playstation boss Shohi Yoshida was somewhat surprised to find that Nintendo Switch 2 costs $ 100 more than expected, but he believes that Mario Cart World’s surprise is meaningful in the Great Scheme of $ 80 price tags.
Shohi Yoshida has no stranger to pricing scandals, who has been a top executive of the PlayStation during the notorious (and notorious expensive) launch of PS3, but still he was defending Nintendo’s fast prices in an interview with Nintendo. Easy ally Podcast
“I was expecting 9 399 like everyone,” Yoshida said about Switch 2, “but she went about (for the price of goods these days (because) $ 499 (with Mario Cart World Bundle). “Even after that he had to double -tech:” And I realized later, ‘Wait, is it the price of PS5 in the United States? “
Yoshida was probably more surprised by Japan’s, closed switches from the region, which is mainly selling like an OG switch at the same price, the main reason is that the country’s conflict rate will mean that if Nintendo is about to change its US prices, then the switch will be doubled.
“The price of the software was surprising that I was not expecting,” he said, citing sports like Donkey Kong bana, which is now adopting the standard of industry’s standard $ 70 for Big Budget Games, and Mario Cart World, which has fully jumps and jumps at $ 80.
Although it is surprising, Yoshida said it is understood because the publishers are struggling with the balloon budget and have been increasing the games for a while, but the players still expect a $ 70 price tag. He says that the solution is that publishers are “not limited to a fixed price on the shelf for physical media days.” It is not necessary to advocate each game to be $ 70/$ 80 or more, but instead, the cost of each game should be “based on the value that the publisher thinks.” For example, if some other incoming switch 2 games appear on half of this price, I can definitely stay with more $ 70 Nintendo Games.
Somewhere else, Yoshida was just a little disappointed that he (Nintendo) did not disappoint everyone doing anything unexpectedly. Although the Directors of Switch 2 had previously said that the console did not bow the boat with a trick like DS and Wi because there have been changes since then.
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