I went to various vendors' sites (Gigantti, Power etc) and saw that the prices for Switch 2 base/bundle are 589/649 euros. Respectively 120/140 euros higher than in Holland, Italy, France, Spain, Germany and several other countries in EU.
I’m aware that console prices in Finland are on average 20-40 euros higher than other EU countries due to higher taxation, but this is too much. 140 euros of price increase cannot be justified with a 2-3% higher VAT, it is a real greedy scalper price.
I opened these sites to pre-order one and ended up extremely disappointed.
I have bought all my previous consoles in Finland in the last 10 years to support the market despite higher costs. This time it is really too much, I will buy it elsewhere.

by ThePokeLord

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  3. Yep I buy electronics from Amazon.de because fuck these guys, fuck Amazon too but as a consumer I genuinely only care about price when it comes to these expensive products. It’s plain stupid to get shamed and overpay hundreds for anything

  4. There are so few sellers in Finland that they work together as “scalpers”.

  6. Hi, the same thing is happening all over Northern Europe. It has to do with the distributor, Bergsala. They either accidentally added VAT *twice* (if you remove VAT from the Finnish prices, they line up with rest of EU) or they are price gouging. So they’re either incompetent af or greedy af. Either case I would not buy it at all locally. Just order from Amazon etc. and get it for the normal price. I hope they sell close to 0 units in Northern Europe.

  7. You can easily protest this by not buying it. That’s what I’m doing.

  9. Trust me, your happiness isn’t predicated on buying the newest gaming console.

  10. It’s crazy everywhere, can we stop with this already? Everyone said that a million times for the past 3 days

  13. I read on r/nintendo that the reason is because of the Nordics region distributor charging about 100€ on top of the recommended selling price. If that’s the case, it does make sense considering the additional price here is now 130 euro more than elsewhere in Europe…

    Here’s the post:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/s/oxkN1T9q1v

    I’m all for supporting Finnish businesses but in situations like this fuck them. If you have the choice buy it abroad.

  16. I hear you. By the looks of it, the Nintendo Switch 2 will launch in Switzerland for the same price as it does in Germany.

    – VAT in Germany: 19%
    – VAT in Switzerland: 8.1%

    In a lot of cases, electronics are usually a bit cheaper in Switzerland than in the EU due to our lower VAT. But more and more, that price difference is becoming marginal.

  17. Wait til you see the prices here in sweden. 7490sek for the bundle, 6800sek with just the switch 2. Fucking crazy.

  18. Easiest non-buy in my life. If I had that kind of money to throw into a portable gaming device I’d just get the 512gt Steam Deck anyway.

  19. You can fly and have a nice summer vacation in Berlin and buy the console over there. It will still be cheaper than buying it from Finland. I see this as an absolute win.

  20. Just get a psvita. It’s by far the best portable gaming system.

  21. Honestly, is there any reason to buy it? The steam deck is cheaper, better, and has so many more games at much lower prices. Unless you really want mario or pokemon or zelda, is there any reason to buy it?

  22. Yup If You compare 449$ would Be like 400€ so where IS this 200€ coming from? Let me guess… Taxes

  23. It is absolutely assbackwards wild that this thing is more expensive than a series x or a ps5 for fucks sake..

  24. Dont buy it. Make nintendo bend. The starting price is absurd!

  25. Ill say it again, it’s nice to support local businesses but sometimes you have to do what’s good for your own financial interests, remember that at the end of the day they are businesses out there only to make as much money as they can, they couldn’t care less about any of us. Buy from abroad maybe amazon Germany or find a other eu store that ships here

  26. I will just wait 6 years again and buy a used Switch 2 for 100 € in Japan

  27. In Puolenkuunpelit you can preorder it for 557,90 for console and 597,90 with the Mario kart game

  28. Thats a nope for me, and the games 80-90e? I quess i never own a Nintendo again, their creedy knows no limit. They will be fine whitout my money im sure.

  30. I am sure we have some logistics professional here that can explain it better but to my understanding a lot of the price difference between Finland, Sweden and Germany comes down to logistics costs.

  32. Yeah, thats like 450€ too much for me to even concider buying it. Honestly even 200€ is way too much imo.

  33. For this money i would 100% buy a pc handheld this is nonsense

  34. They are just placeholders. The price of the product will be confirmed later.

  35. That’s why I will always pirate Nintendo games and use an emulator to play them:) F**k Nintendo.

  37. Puolenkuun pelit has it for 558€ and 598€, verkkokauppa is also cheaper. Still not great but 100€ cheaper, so gigantti really are on something

  38. Dam. Wasnt swith 1 like 400? I bought it and got that ring sport game with it.

  39. 500e price point at launch is the standard in North Euro zone new console releases sooo i would not complain. You can get previous generation devices on sale sooo If i were you i would just buy everything 10 years later for a lower price point. Then, the games are bug fixed and cheap – whats not to like? Of course, If your kids want latest and greatest then that’s another thing.

  40. Easier to just modchip your switch and play tons of games on it, rather than buy switch 2.

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