{"id":786,"date":"2025-04-03T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=786"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:56:00","slug":"sale-predictions-remain-unchanged-despite-switch-2-price-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/sale-predictions-remain-unchanged-despite-switch-2-price-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale Predictions Remain Unchanged Despite Switch 2 Price Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;we do not expect the price point to impact early adoption&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Switch 2 is finally official and it has a price: <strong>$449.99 \/ \u20ac469.99 \/ \u00a3395.99<\/strong> for the console on its own, and <strong>$499.99 \/ \u20ac509.99 \/ \u00a3429.99<\/strong> for a bundle that includes a digital copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Initial concerns around the pricing seem to be largely targeting software over hardware, despite the console coming in higher than most were anticipating. Indeed, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamebusiness.com\/p\/game-devs-scramble-to-join-nintendo\">The Game Business<\/a>, it seems analysts are sticking to their bullish claims regarding sale predictions for the Switch 2, maintaining that early adopters will not be put off by the price.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/sale-predictions-remain-unchanged-despite-switch-2-price-concerns\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;we do not expect the price point to impact early adoption&#8221;. The Switch 2 is finally official and it has a price: $449.99 \/ \u20ac469.99 \/ \u00a3395.99 for the console on its own, and $499.99 \/ \u20ac509.99 \/ \u00a3429.99 for a bundle that includes a digital copy of Mario Kart World. Initial concerns around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}