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Miyamotoo on 21 October 2018
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Kai_Mao said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:
Unless Nintendo is planning a $199 BF and $249 for the the remainder of the holidays (which Nintendo would never be caught dead doing), 20 million is quite a lofty goal. 17-18 million has always seemed more likely IMO

I mean, Nintendo did cut the price of the 3DS to a significant amount and even cut the price of the GameCube to $99. They even cut the price of the successful Wii.

Not saying that they will cut the Switch's price this holiday, but it's not necessarily out of the options. Right now, they probably want to sell it as a profit and if they still believe its selling well enough as a profit at its current price, then they'll stay the course with its price.

Quite different situation, 3DS need price cut because it didnt sell well, same goes for GameCube. Switch is selling very well and Nintendo has a quite a profit with current price point, so even if they miss target for 2-3m maybe they want make price cut.

Maybe Nintendo will have BF deals, something like Switch bundle with game for $300, people dont need to expect more than that.

 

quickrick said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Good comment. Although I would not necessarily say we overestimated demand for Switch. iirc Even with stock issues Switch shipped/sold 16.4 mil in first year versus 14.5 for PS4 first year. Or something like that. The problem is that this year just has the heavy hitters stacked in the last two months. Or at least, in my uneducated opinion.

 

By the way "then it wouldn't shock me if it it fails to outsell 3DS or even PSP" 

 

Didn't PSP sell more than 3ds? Shouldn't it be the opposite way around?

the ps4 first year comparison  vs switch was always bad, very bad. ps4 launched during the holiday was severally limited in supply, basically having a minor boost in during  a time where it could ship 6-7 million with out a launch boost included, it only shipped 4.1 million with a launch, boost stock issues were massive.

Luckily we have comparison for second full year and Switch and PS4 are still doing very similar.