| Lenny93 said: I'm very impressed by the ability of Nintendo naysayers to create elaborate explanations for Nintendo's success. It's as if they can't accept them doing well. |
I think people are just interested to see what way it will go. Most people expected a successful launch but are still unsure how it will sell in 2 months or so. Nintendo may already have anticipated a slow down to a degree and not wanting to swamp retail with unsold stock will manage inventory better this time. I can't remember the 3DS situation but it's possible they were forced to drop prices due to the huge amount of unsold stock. By carefully managing stock they may not be forced into a huge price drop so soon this time. They may be anticipating a drop in sales but don't want to drop the price until the run up to Christmas perhaps September where as if there was 4 million consoles unsold on May 1st they would have to deal with a lot of returns costing a huge amount of money or drop the price.
The only trouble with that is if the console becomes a low seller many retailers will drop or reduce stock of the console and move it to the back of the store etc. So its not like they can accept very low sales without doing something about it. If sales really dropped to very low levels they would have to either drop the price or allow it to be a niche product not widely stocked.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out for sure. I'd love to see the Switch do brilliantly well but you also have to factor in the price, performance level and range of games. However sometimes a product becomes more desirable than the sum of its parts and that could well be happening with Switch.
