Nikkei rumor: Nintendo Switch to cost 25000 yen ( probably 250$/250€)

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Wyrdness said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Yea but the times have changed. One could also argue that the wii's main gimmick factored into its sales and not to mention that it included wii sports which really showed what motion controls was capable of. Where as the 3ds on the other hand didn't have such gimmick to really push the sales so I'd say my impluse buy price range stands for a lot of devices. While the 3ds wasn't flying off the shevles when the price cut happened, if it did stay at $250, I doubt it could have had a chance to be where it is at now so I am certain the price cut helped greatly in the long run.

And yea, the psp sold well but the psp didn't have competition from smart phones and tablets like the Switch does. We can try to beat the drum of Switch having a dock which makes it unique from other tablets thus making it its own category but I think most people will still see it as a tablet first due to its form factor and a so called "game console on the go" second. And of course, the impluse buy range does change with the times depending on the market I'd say.

I always see this flawed argument about tablets blah blah and such, has PC replaced consoles? No they haven't despite the fact that they can play the exact same games and are closer to consoles than tablets and phones are to any portable gaming device, dedicated gaming devices will never be replaced by non dedicated gaming devices, Switch is not a tablet it's a hybrid portable and home console where you can play games like Skyrim and Zelda on the go that's how it's going to be seen by people.

3DS would have still sold with out the price cut as it shifted around 7m or so before it happened, the price cut only gave the platform a 2 week spike, it was the software that caused the 3DS to start selling well, what further backs this is that the cheapest model, 2DS, is the worst selling model yet is in your impulse buy range. PSP had the biggest competition of them all the DS but still sold well at that price

Umm... That analogy of PCs replacing consoles is heavily flawed. The form factor is nothing alike... No casuals ever sees a PC as a console even before getting into the capabilities of both... Where as with the Switch vs Tablets, the form factor is very alike... I doubt casuals will see things the way you are describing since tablets have been around for quite sometime now. And while dedicated gaming won't be fully replaced, the competition from smartphones/tablets is most certainly taking away the customers. The 3ds won't even make it to PSP level and that is most certainly due to those devices taking away sales.

Yea I highly doubt that it would have sold this much without that price cut. Yea it shifted a lot prior but its about continuing to sell in the long term otherwise why would Nintendo do such a hefty price cut in the first place? The 2ds sold the worst but thats cause the 3ds was priced marginally higher and both are in my impluse buy category when the 2ds came out.. Also the 2ds came out in 2013 vs 3ds came out in 2011.

And also guess what? The DS sold almost twice the amount that the psp did and that was in my impluse buy category... And the PSP had one competitor where as the 3ds has many from the likes of Apple, Samsung and etc.