Nintendo Switch Lite Officially Revealed - $199, September 20th, Dedicated Handheld

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DonFerrari said:

psychicscubadiver said:
Just want to point out that the Switch had shortages for, what, the first six months of its life? And iirc was still supply constrained to some extant for the first year?
Lowering the opening price would not have improved sales when you're already selling all of your available stock.

Even Xbox had shortage for 1 or 2 months.

Switch didn't really outsold what PS4 sold on launch. So clearly there were space for both more supply and more demand.

In 2017, Switch's first year, there were global shortages of mobile parts that Switch needed; since they make way more money than any gaming system, mobile phones got first dibs on those parts, so the supply issue wasn't something Nintendo could just click their fingers and fix.