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Soundwave on 10 January 2020
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

What's the reason the Switch 1 and Switch 2 couldn't co-exist for multiple years?

Switch 2 is probably going to raise the price up to $349.99 to start as that's a more lucrative price position, something like the Switch Lite at least will be like $149.99-$169.99 by then ... they would be serving completely different parts of the market by then.

Nintendo is not going to abandon the upscale $300+ market, that part of the market makes a lot of money and that consumer buys a lot of games, you lose that upper end market to people who aren't 11 years old and eventually get tired of a very tired product to other game platforms if you don't keep your product line fresh. 

That's why Switch Plus SKUs will launch between late 2021 and late 2022. They'll allow Nintendo to keep selling at high prices.

People are not stupid, they're not going to keep paying $300-$350 just for something that is a small upgrade indefinitely. New 3DS really didn't do that much for 3DS sales that type of an upgrade simply isn't very exciting. 

Those people in that price category (willing to spend $300-$400+) will spend that money most likely on PS5 or XBXS instead as those companies will aggressively court that audience's spending power. 

So yeah if you want just rinky dink kiddie audience that doesn't care for graphics fine, but you don't get to have it both ways and think you're not going to lose a lot of the higher end Switch demo that drove the install base in its first 3 years and simply gets tired of a very dated product. They're gonna start bailing out of the platform in 2022, 2023, no one's going to give that much of a shit that you're releasing like the 5th Mario platformer on the same dated hardware that was running Odyssey by that point. 

You can't have a boring party that's starting to fizzle out by 12:00 AM and ask people to stay until 3 AM when there's much more livelier party going on next door. People are going to want to leave. 

Last edited by Soundwave - on 10 January 2020