Global Hardware Sales 02 December 2017

[DonFerrari]

nemo37 said:

DonFerrari said:

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. 

250 with Zelda would be a very good price for February onwards imho.

TheLegendaryWolf said:

DonFerrari said:

What a great deal on X1, makes Switch not that much desirable in comparison at the same time.

Well the XB1 has been available for far longer, giving them the edge to lower prices as production costs drop, allowing the retailers to further sweeten the deal.

Sure X1 and PS4 are older and cheaper to manufacture, still Nintendo is on the same market and if costing the double while being half as powerful it may drive customers away after the early adopters buy.