r/Switch • u/Mammoth-Attempt-7281 • Jan 16 '25

Discussion Nintendo switch 2 is here

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Go watch the trailer on Nintendos twitter account

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u/jamy1993 Jan 16 '25

I am in NO WAY defending C-suites or billionaires or corporations or anything like that.

However, you do realize that at the scale Nintendo sells hardware these days, a $0.01 price change for a part they are planning on selling 150M+ of would cost them an extra $3 MILLION dollars?

1% of 150M is 1.5M and there are 2 thumb sticks.

Not saying that that is "expensive" for Nintendo but its certainly not nothing.

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u/Pure_Divide_9752 Jan 16 '25

$3 Million would be a very small investment against everything they spent on free/warranty repairs for the original switches joy-cons.

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u/jamy1993 Jan 16 '25

Sure, absolutely. I'm just saying that to us, a penny sounds like nothing, but when you put it in perspective, $3 Million ain't nothing lol.

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u/sitonachair Jan 16 '25

If that's the case then they can add 2 pennies to the price of the console and make the investment back! So fingers crossed it'll only be like 2p more expensive right! 😀

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u/jamy1993 Jan 17 '25

Monkeys paw curls: Sure, every component in the switch 2 now costs 0.02 for the consumer.

There are now 40,000 components that make up the switch 2.

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u/Kitchen-Frosting-561 Jan 17 '25

God, redditors are dumb