The one thing that I am salty about with the switch 2

 So...I know I just said last post that I'm not salty about not having a switch 2. I'm not. I dont think it's worth the money. BUT...apparently 3 million people did, which broke records by a massive margin for day 1 sales. 

And I AM salty about that. Why? Because it sets a bad precedent. it signals to the console makers, hardware makers, and software developers that it's okay for them to charge more and people will continue to buy it. We shouldnt buy this. Honestly, nintendo has had a bad, anti consumer business model for a while. The switch 1 was $300, they never lowered the price although released a $200 switch lite. They still charge MSRP for their launch games from 2017.

 As I said, in the past, stuff got cheaper fast. Even if console MSRP and new games cost a lot back in the day, stuff would get cheap FAST. And 8 years is a really long time. Imagine if the N64 and its games still cost full price in 2004, and then the game cube cost even more. That's what we're talking about here. Or imagine the game cube and its games were still full price in 2009. Or 360/PS3/Wii still costing full price in 2013-2014. 

That's the problem here. Nintendo isnt lowering prices, stuff still costs full price even at the end of life span, and THEN they're bumping up the price for the next gen. And its not just nintendo. Right after nintendo did this, xbox raised their 5 year old console up to $700....it launched at $500. Really, it's all price gouging. And its the same thing thats happening with the PC hardware market. GPUs went from costing $80-700 to now costing $200-2000. It's insane. We've had 100% inflation in the GPU market over the past decade and in some price brackets, especially at the low and high end, it's significantly more. 

Again, i feel like I'm getting priced out of the current market here. I'm not changing my spending habits, the market just decided to arbitrarily charge a lot more while my income situation hasn't kept up with inflation. And then we got inflation on everything else cutting into cost of living and ugh. 

And then 3 million people go out and buy this. Hope you have fun, you just justified them raising prices and never ever lowering them. That's one thing I will be salty about.