curl-6 said: Let's take the Wii, since people like to still insist the Switch will follow a similar path despite being totally different and trending nothing like it. By this point in Wii's lifespan it had already had its price cut to $200 and pretty much all its big games were behind it. Switch by contrast still costs $300 for the base model, having yet to see a price cut, and still has megatons like BOTW2, Splatoon 3, Monster Hunter Rise, and likely many other big games we don't even know about yet still to come. |
To add to your point, Wii in Year 5 (December 2010-November 2011) received another $50 dollar price cut that reduced the price down to $150, and changed the bundled game to Mario Kart Wii. This year was also had a very dry lineup of games. Additionally, Nintendo was announcing their next gen console at E3 this year.
Juxtapose this with the upcoming 5th year of the Switch having a decent FP lineup for Q1, and a steller TP lineup for Q1, and the Wii and the Switch couldn't be more different.