Miyamotoo said:
But its not about standard, its about clear facts, Switch has price point of home consoles, and on market on which people mostly have interest in handhelds, thats too much for plenty of people for a handheld console, especially for people that are buying multiple consoles per household. $300 for handheld is still far away from mass market price point for handheld devaice (again its good price for hybrid but not for handheld). Buy time Nintendo will offcourse lower price (price cuts, revisions, probably Switch Mini/Pocket..), and like wrote, only than when Switch has price point of handheld ($200>) in Japan sales will really explode and people will start buying multiply units per household.
Value of that package is very bad, for only $50 more you get much greater value, I mean only separate charger cost >$50. |
Fact is you can still get it for this so called handheld price of 250 you keep mentioning. Anyway i wouldn't call 300 the standard launch price for consoles. Ps3 was 600, ps4 400, ps2 400, 360 500, xb1 500, the Wii 250, wii u 350, game cube 200. Psp 226, Vita 300, DS 150 and the 3ds 150.
As you can see prices for portable consoles and home consoles are all over the place. Switch being sold for 300 and 250 in no way suggests its either a portable or traditional home console based on price alone. That's just fact.
