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Intrinsic on 20 May 2018
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zorg1000 said:

The thing i think needs to be taken into account is if those consoles were $100 cheaper at launch than they would have either been sold at big losses or the hardware would be different.

A $300 PS4 in 2013 or $200 Switch in 2017 would not be the same thing as we got so its hard to say that sales would be significantly higher because we dont know exactly how well these theoretical consoles would be recieved.

Many people would likely jump on board for a $300 PS4 but how do we know alot of people wouldnt either pick XBO based on multiplats performing better or just keep playing on PS3/360 because PS4 was a lackluster next-gen upgrade?

Same goes for a $200 Switch, instead of being roughly mid-way between last-gen & current-gen consoles and able to get alot of updated previous gen ports and a handful of current gen downports, it would basically be a Vita+ and  just get a handful of previous gen downports.

For all we know, these cheaper versions would have sold even less than in reality.

Thats taking this in a totally different direction. But what you are saying feeds into what I am saying too, so I am going to play along.

Yes, a $300 box in 2013 would have been less powerful than a $400 box. As would a $300 NS be less powerful than a $200 one. Which brings us right back to what I was saying when I said that sony or nintendo or MS are selling these consoles at market value with very little to no mark up. That means there is zero advantage for selling at whatever price they are selling for as long as theer isn't any markup.

Which means that its ridiculous to suggest that sony (or any one else) selling a console at $400 (with no mark up) is somehow in a better position than someone else (in this case nintendo) that sold their own console at $300 (also with no markup). They all have the exact same issue. They are selling their consoles with no mark up. 

How is it somehow better for sony cause they could get their own price down to $300 when in theory nintendo could also get their won price down to $199 or whatever.