Rock Howard
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For that price I am considering buying a second switch. Maybe that was Big N's plan all along...
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Extra Nintendo Switch dock costs £80 (Eurogamer)
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feint_ruled
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Taking this logic at face value, no piece of consumer electronics could be priced lower than £60.
Tripolygon
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Their plan is to take a huge margin from dock sales, they won't be making as much from Switch Bundle with a dock.
Yeah, that Surface Dock is really steep.
I think all the Switch pricing is steep, but they probably have sources to say that as much as we bitch and moan we will probably pay up. NES Classic and Amiibo ebay have probably helped them realise they can add an extra £10-20 to everything for the first year or two.
Nintendo is hungry for high profits and lean inventory with all of their products since the Wii U.
I'm not plugging my Switch into some bootleg £14 USB-C charger and cable. There are plenty of dodgy ones out there. Everyone also seems to forget the video switching circuitry in the dock. Yes, it's still a little pricey, but that's the price you pay to make sure you don't burn up your Switch.
Serious Sam
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People have been plugging in their 800$ phones to charge from computers, generic wall and car chargers for years and it's been fine. Switch will be fine as well. I already used generic USB charger to charge my Switch and it didn't burn up in the process.
sixteen-bit
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That's super pricey, yikes.
Rumblebones
Banned
I'm always so conflicted about Nintendo. I love their games, I just hate the fucking company.
USC-C is a slightly different beast though. Bootleg USB chargers have gad time to mature to where they are pretty reliable. USB-C is still an emerging technology, and there have been enough problems reported with cheap chargers that I choose to avoid them. Quality USB-C chargers go for over $30.
What? You think a USB Display port to HDMI chip with a USB Hub with some cheap plastic is expensive?
No way it's costing Nintendo more that $15 to make.
TLZ
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Omegasquash
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I'm sure Nintendo buy their components from Amazon sellers, indeed
yeah, because that was the point i was trying to get across. Nintendo sourcing their parts from Amazon. Right.
I was just saying that, what you are getting in that package - if you were buying similar components from cheap no-name brands, you'd still be paying upwards of 50 bucks.
Also, i was quoting a person who called it a "cheap piece of plastic", ignoring the electronic components and accessories - which is what you're actually paying for. (because anyone could just print a knockoff dock, of arguably higher quality)
What Nintendo should be doing, really, would be to release a USB-C -> HDMI cable for like 20-30 bucks that allows you to plug in your switch into any ol' TV. No Dock required.
A bit of a fumble here, although Nintendo has been really pricey with all of it's peripherals. Many houses have more than one TV and it would be a great gimmick to be able to move from one TV to another. The price far outweighs the convenience that it provides, and should be around £30 tops.
AtomicShroom
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£80 for this!?
Fuck you, Nintendo! You fucking thieves!
Fuck you, Nintendo! You fucking thieves!
Chittagong
Gold Member
The BOM of that piece of cheap plastic can be no higher than $5. Good lord.
Have you seen the Comfort grip?£80 for this!?
Fuck you, Nintendo! You fucking thieves!
Skittzo0413
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The dock itself is not £80, just like the dock itself is not $90, it's the dock plus the USB-C AC adapter. The dock itself can be bought for $60, though not sure about the UK price of that.
That said it's still way too pricey. I'd want another one or two for convenience but not at any price close to this.
That said it's still way too pricey. I'd want another one or two for convenience but not at any price close to this.
Lord Azrael
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Highly complex process? Yeah lol okay. And you can easily get a router for a third of the cost of this piece of shit.
So no product the size of the Switch dock can ever be sold for less than £60? Did you even think about this before posting?
Linkstrikesback
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huh?
You think they're making £60 profit on a £80 product?
VAT is 20% of that £80 (£13.33 of the cost therefore goes to taxation) already. So you're agreeing that the shipping costs + materials + retailer cut are ~£7 or less?
You'll have to excuse me if I don't believe that adds up for even a second.
No, it's actually very pricy.
Your post is shitty and incites blind judgement on avatars though.
Tripolygon
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It is a cheap piece of plastic, how hard is that to understand?
£80 for this!?
Fuck you, Nintendo! You fucking thieves!
£80 for this!?
Fuck you, Nintendo! You fucking thieves!
To be fair, this pic does not include the angry gerbil that scratches the screen upon docking.
My dock hasn't scratched anything yet
They're Anker products. Far from bootleg, and it works flawlessly.
Frankfurter
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£80 for this!?
Fuck you, Nintendo! You fucking thieves!
It's not just this. It's also an AC adapter and an HDMI cable. Don't get me wrong, the pricing is terrible, but it's to be expected. The AC adapter alone is 25 (?) in the UK, Nintendo is probably counting on sth. like 15 for the HDMI cable, which leaves "only" 40 for the dock itself. Look at what other companies charge for similar stuff (see the surface dock for instance which is like 150).
The HDMI cable is definitely not $15. It is sold at half of that price in my country's retail stores. Nintendo could've got it much cheaper.
Skittzo0413
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That's not what he's claiming at all...
He's saying that £60 in profit for the manufacturer (which is what the poster he's responding to is claiming) on a £80 product is literally impossible due to shipping, taxes, retail cuts and other costs.
Soldiussnaku
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It's all about the sweet sweet money.
I'm not buying one for another TV. If I need one in future I'll wait for the homebrew scene to build a workaround.
The price is a joke for what you get, especially considering the quality of the build (the Switch itself is great). This is also why I almost never buy official peripherals like chargers and USB leads, etc...
They slap on extra to peripherals because they can.
The price is a joke for what you get, especially considering the quality of the build (the Switch itself is great). This is also why I almost never buy official peripherals like chargers and USB leads, etc...
It doesn't work like that just in case you're not joking.
They slap on extra to peripherals because they can.
jts
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£80 for this!?
Fuck you, Nintendo! You fucking thieves!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/USB-Hubs...d=1495461162&sr=8-2&keywords=anker+usb-c+hdmi
Although it's currently on sale, its RRP is £99. And doesn't include a 39W USB-C adapter like the Nintendo one does.
It's really on par with the market price for these things. Generally speaking, USB-C stuff is still expensive.
MilkyJoe
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Div nae talk shite, man!
For 1 penny less you can buy an Amazon Fire TV box.
For that you get;
- the box - which has 2gb memory, 8 core processor, a gpu, wifi, 4K hdmi out
- The Power supply
- HDMI cable
- Remote control with voice control
Throwaway123456789
Member
You're wrong. It's only the peripherals they are experimenting on.
yep this is an acceptable revision to my statement
prag16
Banned
They could charge half that and it'd still be overpriced. Ridiculous.
It does almost seem that way, doesn't it. Between the outrageous accessory pricing, the relative lack of games to this point, and the barebones system software/services...
I'm sure a lot of that will improve before too long, but damn.
It does almost seem that way, doesn't it. Between the outrageous accessory pricing, the relative lack of games to this point, and the barebones system software/services...
I'm sure a lot of that will improve before too long, but damn.
jts
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I wouldn't trust a no-brand with USB-C stuff though, especially with power being involved.
Your point is valid, but I'm comparing to actual brands, like Anker, Apple, DELL, and so-on. Even if those don't make things perfect, you can get some sense of feedback and restitution if something goes wrong. Don't think Nintendo's stuff pricing has to be compared to cheap knock-offs.
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