Will Switch outsell DS? PS2? Or neither?

[Raven]

numberwang said:

You have to distance yourself from the affection for a piece of plastic. I don't own any modern console and don't care about some classification. I hope you realize the contradiction between a) it's just a mid gen refresh for $399 and b) it's an all new powerful device and thus worth its alleged high price.

The New3DS was just $220 to give some perspective of how much $399 would be for a simple mid gen refresh handheld. Even a true Switch2 for $399 sounds expensive to me. I can see Nintendo fans justifying it by saying: well now it's technically not a new handheld so we can put it into the same irrelevant internet category, good thing we paid a lot for little. I hope N will offer some true generational upgrade if $399 is true because you don't want to spend that money for a stopgap.

You're tying yourself in knots a this point. The 2DS was being sold at $79.99 while the New 3DS XL was being sold at $199.99. Are they two different generations of device? No, obviously not. If Nintendo says the Switch Pro is part of the same family as the original Switch and the Lite, then that's what it is. It's not about affection, it's about following what every console manufacturer has been doing for like 35 years at this point. 

Last edited by Raven - on 05 May 2021