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xMetroid on 13 July 2020
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hunter_alien said:
Shaunodon said:

You may as well type this in notepad, save to desktop and have it ready to copy & paste next time this thread gets made.

Without a 'viable platform' for what exactly? Playing Nintendo games? I can't see a more viable platform for that on the market right now.

Well that was the 3DS as well and the system barely chugged along in it's last 2 viable years, and in all honestly, that was mostly on the Pokemon hype that was created with Pokemon Go!

The Switch is in the middle of its lifecycle. We have already seen that price cuts don't necessarily affect Nintendo products in the same way as they do other systems, hence why the 2DS or GC for that matter never really took off. I am fully expecting it to double these numbers LT, but I honestly doubt the 2nd generation franchise titles will push as many systems as the 1st gen titles, for the simple fact that most people who wanted them will have one already. 

Of course, only time will tell how this will all play out, but it sure reminds me of the hype the Wii had, and how many people were expecting it to easily break the 200 million mark. At the end of the day, I have only to win on this, as a Switch owner, so I hope that it will have a massive install base and as much support as it can possibly get. 

Do you not remember the 3DS tanked before having a price cut and the DS tanked before getting a lite version ? Switch got a moderate boost in July last year after they release an updated battery Switch console without even marketing it. I'm sure a 50$ price cut will come handy next year if it starts to decline.

But for now, we don't even know how much it can sell each week since it is out of stock WW

kazuyamishima said:

Despite the fact that many Nintendo supporters claiming in this site that price cuts are yet to come, I don’t see Nintendo doing many price cuts for the switch. Even with 3DS/2DS they didn’t do too much. And even Nintendo stated that as long as they can, they will not do price cuts.


As for the games mentioned above, only a New Mario Kart can increase the sales but most people that have Mario kart 8 DE will buy it. Ring fit adventure is already the switch sports and we will have to wait and see for a Nintendogs game on the Switch.

As for the other games (2D Zelda, Star Fox, 3D Mario, 2D Mario, Pikmin, etc), I don’t see them helping to do astronomical sales for the system.

As for PS4 the final number is really on Sony hands.

But the system is 7 years old, is priced at $299(slim)/399(pro) AND it’s going to be replaced in 4 months, and still will do more than 10 million units sold this year, that’s a feature that no other console achieved before.

Again.. same thing. Price cut saved the 3DS and the 2DS came pretty late in the life cycle so it's pricing was already pretty cheap. They did A LOT of 2DS + MK7 80$ bundle here, probably less than that in the US and it made it survive it's last years. 

I'm sure MANY are waiting for the OG Switch to get a price reduction. There is a big market for that you know. 

For the ones saying the production is declining.. y'all don't get it the demand is just sky high and the production is actually higher than usual, they just still can't match it hence the low amount of stock WW. I do think it should stay low in stock all year but still manage to hit 25 millions.. while being supply constrained.