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thismeintiel on 29 January 2020
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curl-6 said:
thismeintiel said:

Entry price saw a cut.  Whether that was through a SKU price cut or a new lower priced SKU really doesn't matter.  And I didn't say the Lite was doing wonders all by itself.  I said it was doing wonders for the Switch, as a whole.  It saved it from being down YOY and pushed it past 2M in Dec.  An extra 400K+ in sales isn't anything to sneeze at.

Entry price for a model most customers chose against even when it was $100 cheaper though. The full Switch experience, which most customers evidently prefer, still cost buyers an entry price of $299.

And "wonders" is still overstating it; if the Lite had not come along plenty of those who bought it might have just picked up a regular Switch, so we can't even say it added 400k for sure.

Define plenty?  Cause if the full experience was what people prefer, why even buy the lesser model?  The fact is, those who are buying it at $199, even though it has fewer features, are people who won't buy it at $299.  If they would buy it at $299, they would have just got the OG model to have the "full experience."  No Lite and you can bet 350K+ of those sales go away. 

Nintendo knows what it is doing and knew when to time the Lite release.  Now, quite a few people who would have waited for the OG model to get a cut to $199 can jump on board, turning any months that would possibly have shown drops YOY to now showing gains.  Same goes for normal price cuts on other consoles.