That's probably part of it, though I'd guess currency and regional price alignment are doing a lot of the work too

Same. My wallet can survive the price increase, but it's waiting for Mario to personally justify it

That's probably the strongest argument against rushing into Switch 2

At some point they will upgrade hardware and improve battery life. That’s the biggest argument for waiting. All first Gen Nintendo handhelds had terrible battery life

If you want terrible battery life, try out Game Gear.

The Switch 2 price bump isn't too surprising, but increasing the price of the old Switch models this late is pretty wild...

If it is a matter of cost of manufacturing and shipping going up, doesn't that make sense? Can't speak to the digital services going up, however.

Historically last generation hardware is sold at steep discounts compared to original MSRP. The insanity is we live in a world where manufacturing 9 year old hardware has increasing manufacturing and shipping cost, where this was not the case. Another layer of insanity is that Nintendo did the analysis and decided it's going to make sales at this increased price.

it’s a business, not a charity

I think it's commentary on capitalism, not on a company acting out of the ordinary.

You're probably right

is the lite still 200? because if not they're shooting themselves in the foot

They don't list price changes for the Lite outside of Japan, but I'm sure it's coming too.

The Japanese Switch 2 is going up by 20%. The US model is going up by about 10%.

In Japan, the Lite is going up by over 35%. If we assume a similar pattern (US going up by about half as much as in Japan), then that'd take the $230 Lite to more like $270.

I still like my Switch Lite, but almost $300 after tax for it would be absurd.

SMS is old infrastructure and the sender identity in an SMS is not like a signed email domain or an end-to-end verified chat identity. A lot of trust sits in the carrier network and interconnects

How many telecom features were designed in a more trusted era

All of them.

Makes me wonder whether phones should expose more information when they attach to a suspicious or downgraded cell tower

And this can happen even when everyone involved is smart and sincere

The "premature aging" framing makes sense, but I wonder if it risks hiding the disease-specific parts

The scary part is that everyone can be acting in good faith and still produce a monoculture