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nemo37 on 03 January 2018
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DonFerrari said:
nemo37 said:

The pricing and value offered by Switch versus the other systems has always been off to me (I have always believed the price is between $100-$50 too high). I feel a key factor that could hurt Switch in 2018 will be its price (lineup will also be key but at this point the line up is most unknown). With that being said though when I look at the number I do not feel the desirability of the Switch (at least versus the Xbox One in Europe; PS4 in Europe is a whole other story) is really at stake, after all as mentioned above MS was selling the system nearly at half the price of the Switch and bundling games as well and yet, in this week anyway, it managed to only do better by around 10K.

Switch is still the hot stuff and people are willing to pay a premium for it, but as you said, 2018 it may not be the situation anymore.

I do hope Nintendo will be willing to reduce the price. I recall they could not do that with Wii U because the system was already selling at a loss (something which the Switch is not doing, though profit margins are not really high on it either) and also they did not sell enough so that they could manufacture more in order to reduce costs through high volume manufacturing. Now (I am talking about in January of 2018) is most likely well above 10 million units sold (plus more shipped). I hope costs have reduced to the point that Nintendo can drop the price should momentum decrease. I feel that with an appropriate price drop (lets say to $250 early on and maybe to $200 some time after that) combined with a good library (the backlog from last year is great, but it still needs much more) it can be quite successful. But that price right now has me quite worried.