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Miyamotoo on 21 March 2017
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DélioPT said:
Miyamotoo said:

It doesn't matter, point is that Nintendo always looking to have multiple price points on market and to cover wide range of market with their price points, and only difference with Switch is that will be only platform and not deviaded like before on two separate platforms (different handheld and different home console platform).

If you paid attention on Nintendo PR, you would know the current talking about Switch like home console of 1st place, and only reason why they doing that because Wii U is dead while 3DS is still selling.

Like I wrote, Sony and Nintendo operating different, and of course they will need lower price point because with current price point of Switch they dont have replacement for segment of $150-200 price point that's currently covered buy 3DS and 3DS XL. Of Course that much more people will be become part of Switch platform if they have device for $150-200 that plays Switch games instead of $300 (espacily for those who dont want to play on TV).

If you have different price points for platform, automatically you aiming at much wider market than with just one price point. Do you think that 3DS would sell so much if they had only one price point of $200!? Offcouse not.

Any games could be ported to Switch, if devs want they can ported even to PS3/Xbox360, or Wii or mobile phones. You do realise that on launch Wii U actually had pretty solid 3rd party support (Call Of Duty, Batman, Mass Effect, NFS, Fifa, NBA...) but 3rd party abandon Wii U after terrible sales and when realise that Wii U is a fail. If Switch sells good and become popular it will have more 3rd party games, but offcourse that never will be on same level like on PS4/XB1, but that would be fact even if Switch has exactly same hardware like PS4/XB1 because 3rd party knows that 3rd party games are in most cases selling worst on Nintendo platform because people buying Nintendo platforms on 1st place just to play Nintendo games.

 

 

NIntendo's intentions were not having multiple price points, but to extend the life of it's prodcuts, which naturally resulted in different price points because the new HW, if i'm not mistaken, always came at a higher price. The only exception might be the 2DS.

Again, with future HW revisions, they can get to that price. And again, they don't need to lower the price to attract a wide range of consumers.
Just look at Sony and their consoles: they never needed lower price tags to sell 80 to 150 million consoles. Or look at Apple and their iPhone line.
Higher price tags don't necessarily mean leaving money on the table/wasting sales potential. Switch is actually doing so well that those people who would only buy it at your 150-200, are probably buying it right now or will buy it soon.

What could happen is that with the interest around Switch, lowering the price tag would result in lower profits unnecessarily.

The question isn't so much if games can be ported to Switch, the question is at what cost.
Things could soon hit a point where the difference is so big that consumers won't even bother with the Switch version.

With Wii U, things were already BAD before the console failed. It just got worse after sales proved it wouldn't take off.

If point was just to extend life of product, why they didn't canned basic 3DS after New 3DS XL or after 2DS!? Fact is that you will much easier sell your platform if you have different price points of your platform, not all people are willing to pay just on higher price for product. 2DS is first lowered price hardware that is part of family, because 3DS was highest price Nintendo handheld and they wanted to have more afordible devaice, and now we have Switch that's even more expensive, not only that but Switch will not have huge price cut in its 1st year like 3DS did.

Of Course they need to have lower priced version if they want potentially much bigger sales. Like I wrote, "Sony and Nintendo operating different, and of course they will need lower price point because with current price point of Switch they dont have replacement for segment of $150-200 price point that's currently covered buy 3DS and 3DS XL. Of Course that much more people will be become part of Switch platform if they have device for $150-200 that plays Switch games instead of $300 (espacily for those who dont want to play on TV).

You comparison with Apple is bad, beacuse Apple do exatly things I talking about. Apple has iPhone 6, iPhone 6S, Iphone 6 Plus, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, plus multiple versions of those models from 32GB to 256GB. Do you actualy realise how huge price point Apple is covering with their iPhone line!?

You are totally wrong that those are all same people who are willing to pay $300 for current Switch, and people who dont need (TV mode) and that $300 is definitely too high price for them but they would pay around $200. Yes curent Switch will be chepaer buy the time, but also Switch Mini/Pocket will also cheaper buy the time, we already saw Nintendo doing that with DS and 3DS line.

 

Well we have infos that Switch development is very easy and actually that Switch is light years ahead of Wii U in that matter. 3rd party games will always in any case look in handheld mode of Switch. Like I wrote, "on launch Wii U actually had pretty solid 3rd party support (Call Of Duty, Batman, Mass Effect, NFS, Fifa, NBA...) but 3rd party abandon Wii U after terrible sales and when realise that Wii U is a fail".