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As a green text breakdown
>Nintendo sets price of switch
>looks at their domestic economy and yen value and realizes the genral consumer can't afford the product
>decide to lower the product's price in native economy, but don't want rest of the world to start buying the Japanese version
>decide to gimp the cheaper (49,980 yen is $332.96) Japanese version by region locking
>still want to have an option for the weirdos who are importing foreign games into japan so they a non region locked version in Japan for more money(69,980 yen is $466.20)
>forenign maket version is just the more expensive unlocked Japanese one
For the general consumer in Japan there's no reason to buy the more expensive version, so the whole thing is really windows dressing to sell the console cheaper in Japan. If the margins are still good enough, I wouldn't be surprised if they flirted with region locked versions in other places that have shit economies.

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