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DélioPT on 12 July 2018
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Miyamotoo said:
DélioPT said:

First, the hybrid concept is selling but like any other system seller aspect of a console, it loses selling power over time. Even if just because there are two new consoles.

Second, as i wrote above, consumers didn't care that PS4 was 400$, that XB1 was more expensive (had to do more with it being bundled with something that gamers didn't care and had no alternative, plus other things).
If PS5 and XB4 is everything gamers wanted from next gen, you can bet a 200 Switch won't have the effect you think it will, specially when Switch isn't stealing costumers from MS and Sony.

Hybrid concept cant be loosed buy time, hybrid concept will be one of main reasons for buying Switch even after PS5/XB2 arives on market, offcourse with stronger Switch lineup over years and lower price point Switch will become more desirable product later for plenty of consumers and can easily sell very well despite PS5/XB2 on market. For instance 3DS was selling very well despite PS4/XB1 and even Wii U arived on market.

Point is that more people will buy Switch when price point is much more afordible, you keep missing fact that Switch can keep selling good despite PS5/XB2, same like PS4 was keep selling great despite Switch arived on market thats also selling good, Nintendo dont need to steal consumers from MS and Sony in order to selling good, but offcourse that buy time more PS4/XB1 users will buy Switch also.

So, other things lose value over time, but not Switch?
Everything loses value over time. That's why new generations are introduced.

Switch isn't capable of stealing customers from Sony and MS, now when it came out at full force, and you think that lowering the price and improving the catalogue will do the trick? If this was another console i would probably agree with you. But this is not your ordinary situation. You can't aproach it as if it was the same old story repeating itself.

3DS is a handheld. 
And to get Nintendo games it really was the only wise choice.

Again, you can't see Switch as another console. This generation is like no other.
Gamers have already shown that if they see a reason to pay 400+$, they will. Simple as that.
And if gamers embrace next gen like they did with the current one, Switch at 149-199 won't matter as much as you think. Specially when sales are making it clear that Switch isn't the priority to gamers.

"same like PS4 was keep selling great despite Switch arived on market thats also selling good, Nintendo dont need to steal consumers from MS and Sony in order to selling good, but offcourse that buy time more PS4/XB1 users will buy Switch also."

Of course PS4 (XB1, too) kept selling great. Switch wasn't stealing costumers away from it.
Switch doesn't need to steal costumers from PS4 and XB1? So, doing that or not, is completely irrelevant to you?
You do realise that, by the looks of it, Switch has a limited (because it's made up of PS4 and XB1 userbase) market potential, don't you? And after Switch eats up a good chunk of that market, what happens next? 

Stealing costumers would mean that, in the years to come, Switch would have a better fighting chance against XB4 and PS5. Why? Because that would mean that people see Switch as a primary console and not a secondary console.

If Switch can only get that type of costumers (Switch = secondary console), when it's competition arrives, that market will dry up faster than it should. Clearly cutting into Switch's potential market and lifespan.
That's why it's important for Switch to find it's own userbase. Not to mention the benefits for next gen HW, aswell.

And if that happens, no 149-199 price point will help it.