Cheers so the de is still not in-line with the currency changes but it's probably something like a 10% difference.
Being a US tourist in Japan is like having everything be 40% off.
It's a global chain with the biggest cost factors being the final assembly in China and the SoCs from Taiwan. Besides every resource is dealt in USD, and cheap Japanese manual labor doesn't affect it. In regards to video games, it affects having cheaper production budgets for software.
I have never done that but looking at the price they are buying used games, maybe not very good.
The products are usually pegged against USD, the XS also increased their prices based on currency fluctuations. This is something companies regularly do and Sony/MS made these price changes even last gen.
Yeah they are a little higher but maybe offsetting a bigger disparity on the horizon. With how much the currency has devalued there is probably a growing export market so it makes sense.
For better or worse, this has been a regular practice for a currency outside of USD. Back during the PS4 launch days, the CAD was basically on par with USD and prices reflected that.
But people love Nintendo here. Not many people bought PS5 even before the price increase.
So Nintendo is allowed to deal with the worldwide financial conditions, but Sony isn't?
Have components also not increased over recent years due to JPY weakening?
Sony is really putting an effort in making me hate them and this fucking hobby...
The issues are usually with games that try to jam RT or both high end UE5 features like Lumen and Nanite in performance modes. We saw that with Jedi Survivor and when an update removed RT, performance mode is a solid 60fps. The amount of games suffering like this are not many though.
I mean Switch 2 will be a brand new console, any price increase compared to the previous gen will be taken much more easily by the public.
What I mean is that even with price increased, people would still buy Nintendo console here in Japan. PS5 was already struggling right now even without the price increase. All my friends have Nintendo switch but none of them has a PS5 or even think about buying one.
Yes.
I have colleagues in Japan for professional equipment and they pretty state for years now that prices are hiking about 20% per year, especially for sought out products who already have their market shares.
We could also argue now that the Switch is painfully overpriced for the "cavemen" tech it has now for years.
Sure, but the answer is now dumping the prices around 40%? I hate to defend conglomerates, but the solution is here increasing wages not dumping prices.
Well yes. They can't even sell somewhat close to a 7 year old console, what's gonna happen when the Switch 2 releases? Shitty situation because not raising the price might not even make a difference but if you raise it you're basically waving the white flag and telling everyone that you're done in Japan.
it has everything to do with this. if japanese market actually bought a tons of sw and services on PS5 Sony might have been willing to eat the losses regarding the hw margin but because most of console are simply exported they don't want to.
