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curl-6 on 31 January 2020
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thismeintiel said:
curl-6 said:

A lot of those 3M probably would've bought a regular Switch for Pokemon anyway had the Lite not released. "Wonderful" is a big overstatement when the SKU that's $100 more expensive still makes up the bulk of sales.

Obviously Nintendo doesn't buy that narrative, otherwise they wouldn't release the cheaper SKU.  If they would have bought it regardless of price, Nintendo is stupid for releasing it, as they must make a killing with the manufacturing price reductions on the $299 SKU. Again, if those people would have bought the $299 SKU, anyway, that's still the SKU they would have bought for the full experience and features.

Are there still going to be people who wait for the $299 Switch to drop in price?  Of course.  But, the people who don't care about the "full experience," and want it at $199 are jumping in, now.  That was the point of the Lite. Not to become the #1 SKU for the Switch, but to get some of those $199 adopters started coming in to keep demand and numbers up.

I wouldn't be delusional and say that the PS4 would still be at 105M+ without cuts below $349.  Of course it wouldn't.  Same goes for the Switch.

If it was acting like a $199 price cut though, then the vast majority of sales would be of the $199 model.

Instead, the vast majority are still choosing the base model in spite of it costing $100 more. So it's not equivalent to a price cut.