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

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Wyrdness said:

Captain_Yuri said:

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.

Except the are mini PCs that share the same form factor as consoles so no it's not flawed going by your own logic, in fact many early consoles shared similar form facters with computers, casuals will see it exactly how I described it because that's how the unveil and marketing so far has portrayed it.

No it still would have sold that much as in the long run it would have gotten a price cut anyway only a bit later on, they were mistaken to think the problem was price which is why they did the cut when the actual problem was software output. Under your own logic 2DS should be selling the most but it's not, the higher priced models are, I don't get your point about when the 2DS was released because that's still 4 years ago, under the stance you're arguing the 2DS in that 4 years should be the top selling model but it isn't, what further contradicts your argument is you're arguing tablets and phones when those are well above impulse buy prices and often require someone to enter a service provider contract, this flat out indicates that impulse buy range is far wider than you're arguing.

DS sold more than PSP and? You seem to not understand the point that it still sold well at a price point you're arguing against when the was what is the strongest copetitor any dedicated gaming platform could face, in fact it's one of the top selling portable platforms in history.

Oh ok, so instead of just PCs, its now only mini-PCs... When most people think about PCs, they don't think about mini-PCs, they think about PCs as being a mid-sized tower that is hooked up to a monitor used with a mouse and a keyboard. When people think about consoles, they think about a small form factor hooked up to the living room TV used with a controller. What you are talking about isn't even what the causals think about when someone mentions a PC. Most mini-PCs found at the local store aren't even gaming PCs and the ones that are usually aren't found at a place where casuals generally go. It's not that hard to see why they aren't alike.

Uh huh... Or it wasn't a mistake and the price cut along with software is what made it continue to sell well... And no, not under my logic. I never said the lower priced model should sell better than the higher priced models. The entire point of me saying "impluse buy" pricing is to suggest that impluse buy devices should have the ability to sell more than non-impluse buy devices in the same category. If both devices are in the impluse buy category, then it won't matter since the price difference is so marginal. And that is exactly what the DS did vs the PSP.

Oh and the strongest competitor that any dedicated gaming handheld can face is smartphones which is exactly what is happening since the start of the 3ds/vita generation.