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Soundwave on 20 January 2017
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Ljink96 said:
Soundwave said:

3DS successor is not selling 20-30 million life time unless there's a disaster, don't believe Nintendo's PR line, as 2018 goes on they will position it more as the 3DS replacement. They want to sell 3DS for another year and buy some time to get the price down on the Switch while gouging early adopters. 

Lets not be naive as to what's going on here. 

3DS was a disaster at $250 before it really picked up after the price cut. If 3DS owners werent' willing to buy a 3DS at $250, they really aren't willing to buy a portable device at $300 if they're going to treat it like a portable device or be seen as people who want a 3DS successor. 

If Nintendo wants to get past my predicted amount they're not going to do it with $80 pro controllers, no Switch Price cut, $90 pieces of plastic with 3 ports, etc. Money talks. If they plan on suckering early Switch adpoters with the pricing, they have to do another ambassador program to compensate as well. Or else people aren't going to be too enthused I'd imagine.

They will bring the price down over time, it will be $249.99 possibly by holiday season and then $199.99 eventually. 

They didn't bother with Wii U because they took a big hit on the 3DS to rescue and didn't want to do it again, this time since they only have 1 system, they have no choice but to give it every oppurtunity to succeed. With 3DS and Wii U they could only bail out one and chose the 3DS while letting the Wii U drown to death. 

The ability to play on the TV at home or take it anywhere outside is a decent novelty too, it's no Wiimote or DS touch screen (for their time), but it's much better than the Wii U (sorta portable ... in the same room) and 3DS (3D effect that your eyes get used to after 30 minutes).