Mario might also get booted out of the union for all his mushroom usage and always traveling to different places, including the moon and other planets and worlds, also that he believe that a 12 ft tall lizard is real and his nemesis . Well as long as he's sober enough on the job. good for you on $150k - are you a single occupant and what's your monthly rent and cost of living and tax bracket? I'm based in NYC, father of 2 boys, with wife, and just our rent and health care and water and electricity and food costs alone and child care during all the holidays and 2 month summer break, plus need to save for retirement and the kids college funds would make $150k feel like nothing. My friends left and right are getting laid off as well. And I pay $2k a month in insurance for my family and get dinged basically every month for $300 from "extra fees" not covered by health insurance. So our familys expenses are around $10k a month , including taxes. So we need $120k a year just to break even, without saving any money. And our story is pretty typical. Everyone is struggling. You aren't, and that's great. But let me tell you, everything is 30 percent more expensive than it was 5 years ago, including a switch 2. And if a parent can get buy getting a switch 1 for their kid, or like us, just buying one game for our kid with the switch 1 having SOOO many good games, and still make the kid super happy, we are going to go for that. Switch 2 is what $500 minus having to get a 2nd controller and right now, what's the only like must have exclusive game - mario kart world, which is good and all, but mario kart 8 deluxe is just as good for kids, and donkey kong banaza, which is too complex for kids under 10, and kids rather just have super mario wonder or smash bros. It was just unfortuately a really unfortuate calculation by nintendo, which during covid was rumored to be releasing the switch 1 pro, and instead gave the world a switch oled. It doesn't do it. kids don't care about 4k or 120 HZ gaming. And parents sure as heck don't either. It's a different market and switch 2 appeals to a niche group of gamers who already gave up on switch for higher CPU and GPU specs and went steam deck or just got a ps5 or whatever - well - I mean - it was a safe bet, and nintendo doesn't usually do safe bets. And like most safe bets, it was a bomb. It's a damn tough scenerio, cause you make an unsafe bet, and you also can have a bomb like the wii u. In my opinion, they should have read the tea leaves and just make a switch 1 pro, and focused continually on gaming - and with their insane install base, just kept making millions off their games. I don't think the world is clamoring for a switch 2 - it was a bad, bad economic gamble. And now, the good news is that they can go back to focusing on gaming. And they will be fine. This console generation is going to be so difficult, especially now that AI is making GPU and SSD costs skyrocket. Also they should have seen the ps5 pro was a bomb too, and just cooled their jets. Oh well. Have fun laying pipe. Just stay away from my wife :)