@halva@jeder GBA SP (2003): US$99.99 (equivalent to $171 in 2024) (also even the gamecube was that cheap back then, they kinda had to drop the price because it wasn't selling too well) original DS (2004): US$149.99 (equivalent to $249.69 in 2024) (above numbers from wikipedia) 3DS (2011): 249.99 USD (348 in 2024) switch (2017): 299.99 => 383 (above numbers from www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation)
it's a pretty steady increase and clearly the cause isn't inflation it's true that the switch and switch 2 aren't really in the same hardware category as their predecessors but that's still pushing it
