November NPD 2018 Thread

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LGBTDBZBBQ said:
Can we please stop using this faulty logic of " Sony can sell 3 Million if they have enough 199$ spiderman stock " because Nintendo also can sell 10Million of MK8D bundled with enough stock and 50 Million with 199$ price point with a free MK8D.

The reason why Sony can't ship more 199$ spiderman bundled because they already had a set of shipment target for specific promotion bundled during that month.
Now imagine how many Switch will be sold if they decided to release Switch+Smash Ultimate at 199$ during BF and CM.

Both Nintendo and Sony aren't stupid to reduce their revenues because of stupid shipment number wars.

Ok. 

Sony can sell a PS4 @ $199 and throw in  first party game for a lot of reasons.

1. It probably cost them less than $199 to make a PS4 right now and probably has since last year. A simple BOM assessment will make this obvious.
2. The have a lrge enough install base that could buy the bundled game (over 3M sold in first 3 days) s they would have already made a lot of money from that game.
3. The bundled game is a first party game. so it cost them nothing to add it.

Nintendo CANNOT sell the switch at $199 right now without biting some sort of loss.

So drop that whole what nintendo can do nonsense. Cause the difference here is that sony CAN actually sell the PS4 at $199 and nintendo can't but sony is choosing not to because they don't have to. 

Further more... having an install base of over 80M makes it even easier for you to do deals like those because besides the added revenue stream the new buyers brings you have an already large base of people to milk.

The reason sony hasn't dropped the PS4 to $199 all this time is simply because they are still selling very well as is. And that says a lot for a 5yr old console. 

So we can say it all day long that if sony shipped this they would sell that because we know its feasible and possible. Nintendo simply can't afford to do that now even if they wanted.