First of all, your 25,000 yen price is off the mark and outdated. That's January news. It's 29,970 yen. http://www.sofmap.com/product_detail.aspx?...&gid=GF44010000 From your beloved Sofmap website itself.

that translates to RM1,200. Add in your 25% for "personal courier", bumps it up to RM1,500. No games.

Lowest price locally is RM2,099 bundled with 1,2, Switch and Zelda, 3 random Amiibos and RM100 cash voucher.
http://www.impulse.com.my/nintendo/switch-...07-03-2017.html

1,2, Switch is RM229, Zelda is RM259. Total RM488.
http://www.impulse.com.my/nintendo/switch-games

RM2,099 minus RM488 = RM1,611. Minus RM100 cash voucher you can use to buy your next Switch game, becomes RM1,511. Minus RM38 for each of the three Amiibos they bundled randomly, https://www.lelong.com.my/kx/animal+crossing+amiibo.htm

becomes (1511 - 58 - 58 - 58 = RM1,397).

RM1,397. Even if you consider that RM100 cash voucher as worthless, that'll bump it up back to RM1,497. Still RM3 cheaper than your "personal shopper/courier" RM1,500 Japanese Nintendo Switch.

Apa lagi lu mau? Want cheap, go earn in USD or Japanese yen lah.

ADDENDUM: The only way you can "save up" on a Japanese Nintendo Switch is that RM300 "personal courier" cost you can play around. Unless you have an angel willing to do your legwork hunting for the Switch there and bringing it in hand-carried at zero cost, I bet you that RM300 will be dwindling down to nothing once the person starts asking for compensation for doing your shopping.

pretty sure they still put 25k yen in their shop last week with game
too bad didnt take picture

lets see if the offer is still there next month. pretty hard to miss when its the first thing you see when taking the escalator

For everyone else who lives in THIS reality, when in doubt, refer to mothership: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/hardware/switch/index.html



Mothership says 29,980 yen. All you provided are conjectures and anectodal statements with no proof to back it up. I can also say I saw Nintendo Switch in Tsim Sha Tsui or Mong Kok selling below RM1,000 after conversion, but nobody's here gonna take my bullshit unless I back it up with evidence. For all you know, your 25,000 yen is the price after you trade-in older games/consoles or if you do a dance in your underwear in front of Sofmap Akiba.

You're talking to a traveling veteran here, I did all my shopping in Japan during my formative airline working years, and I never base my purchasing price on "what other people thought they saw on the street". Concrete evidence on official links, not some shady "I thought I saw" nonsense.

P/S: if you're even slightly knowledgable about how Nintendo price their stuff, they are notorious for not dropping price until waaaaaaaaaaayy later in the shelf life of their consoles. 25,000 yen? Sure, you can even get it for RM980 after conversion for just the console in used videogames stores in Japan like BookOff, but we're not talking about used here are we? 

sure sure

will try to snap pic next month

wasnt interested in it before due to defects so didnt inquire more

Not interested to carry on this conversation too because your reasoning, evidence and statements in your posts are defective as well. Full of holes.

For everyone else,

didnt realise i insert any evidence

but well, you're right till proven wrong

Some of these orang puteh on these online forum can be even more hopelessly moronic than the most hopeless, out-of-touch folks I've met around here that have an affinity against using anything modern like search engine or online shopping.

Siap kena pegang tangan, handholding....some even straight up wants to be told whats good for them and what to buy.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php...1#post233505114

Nintendo Switch charging related. Post #10541 onwards. I don't wanna assume or put out a blanket statement that these hopeless fools are clueless when it comes to putting 2 and 2 together, but when handholding goes to the extreme like this, like "just tell me what to buy, and I'll buy it" kinda mentality, without fact-checking or even check-and-balancing what's being recommended to them, no wonder America's f**ked.

Bro,

While what you did (read, research, buy, test, write) and share is very commendable and I'm sure many silent readers appreciate the technical info, as well as "some layman explanation", there are many people who are not interested to study that in-depth. They will either buy something not tested/reviewed and use it (some works, some doesn't). Or some who has read about your review, and jump straight into the bandwagon to purchase battery pack and cable without further ado. This reminds me of the Simpsons meme "Just take my money"

IB4 I'm not omputeh

While most recommendations for powerbanks and charger with intent to charge phones are relatively safe, when it comes to the Uncharted waters of USB-C and the dangers of out-of-spec cables, powerbanks and chargers, it's important that end users know what they're getting into. USB-A carries low current compared to USB-C and the potential of fire hazard is exponentially larger as we move higher in the wattage these USB-C charging devices.

Put it this way:

Sounds hyperbolic or over-dramatic? Nope, that's a terrifying possibility with high power delivery components. You can get away with USB-A because of its low power draw, not anymore with USB-C.

P/S: you're definitely not omputeh, with a name like Boboi.

Yup, we all know you posted no evidence. You came here, post your one-liner post with nothing worthwhile and no contribution to the thread other than your misguided whinings. Museum of Kopitiam suits your style of post better.

Back to the topic at hand, anyone looking for one in Osaka, Bic Camera Abeno Q Mall branch near Tennoji JR Line station will be getting stock tomorrow, maybe someone can finally put this "hilarity" about the 25,000/29,980 yen price of a Switch in Japan to an end, with proper evidence this time, than just "I thought I saw it" nonsense.

Inb4 "it's Bic Camera, not Sofmap".

Still remember the times on the Osaka Loop Line getting to DenDenTown. Nipponbashi is so much more navigable and manageable than Akiba, plus the JR line doesn't cease operation until very late at night, unlike Tokyo.

oh hai