hunter_alien said:
The 3DS lost 1/3 of its price less than a year on the market. We are 3 and a half years into the Switch lifecycle and we still didn't get a price cut. Modern Nintendo systems, I mean everything that became generationalized, from the N64 to this day. The GC did get a price cut and it barely helped. It went from selling abysmally low numbers to just very bad numbers. It did in a generation what the Switch will do in a year. That price cut probably pushed less unit than what a modern system does in one or two quarters so yeah, it did not help. Nintendo always had a different strategy with system pricing compared with MS/Sony, and the Switch is the prime example for this strategy. The N64, GC, GB, GBA, DS, 3DS all had comparably small bumps in sales when price cuts came along. Redesigns and games are the ones that push systems. Check out the hardware charts right on this site for this. Don't believe me, I don't care, just watch how this generation will unfold. I will laugh my ass off when people will try to rationalize why the Switch never passed the PS4, and say to the ones that got it right that hindsight is 20/20. |
Again, what did you expect? For the Gamecube to suddenly sell 15m units per year because of a price drop? Do you think a price cut would have propelled the Vita to decent sales? Going from "abysmally low" to "very bad" is exactly what would happen with a less-successful Sony or Microsoft system.
Again, you just listed the 3DS as an example right after agreeing its sales were helped tremendously by a price cut. When the PS3's price was dropped from 400$ to 300$ that was a 25% price cut, which is not much smaller than the 3DS price cut was! If the PS4 will be helped tremendously by a price cut from 300$ to 200$... that's also a 1/3 reduction in price, again proving my point: Nintendo system react just the same to a price cut as any other system. And just for the record: I do not think Nintendo should drop prices, but try to increase the value of their product.
Yeah I guess you will laugh just like the people in 2017, 2018 and 2019 who predicted Switch sales have peaked and will only go down from now on.
