Yunta said:
That's the most reasonable way to react to these statements, nobody knows (outside of Nintendo and Nvidia) the specifics of the switch at this point, most of it is just speculation, let's just wait and see for ourselves. Haters gonna hate in any case and most of the gamers that bought a WiiU are going to get a Switch, heck I'm betting most of the current 3DS owners are going to get a Switch just by knowing this is Nintendo's next handheld (/homeconsole). And the numbers will bring 3rd party support, just wait and see. |
The 3DS userbase is arguably the Nintendo market demographic more likely to early adopt the Switch, but a large degree of that probability lies strictly on price. It certainly is the much larger and arguably more relevant demographic, given the small size of the Wii U base.
Yes, it's boring to boil it down to MSRP, but given that the New 3DS currently retails for $199 and I believe the entry 2DS has a $129 MSRP, the price of the Switch can't be much higher than $100 more than the 3DS without pushing their audience to wait until the price drops and the library builds.
But maybe I'm thinking the wrong way here as the core Nintendo audience tends to buy multiple handhelds and more importantly, they buy because they prefer Nintendo game IPs, so early adoption hinges less on price, while still being reasonable. $299.
Nintendo did originally manage to sell the 3DS for $249 afterall.
