Will Switch outsell DS? PS2? Or neither?

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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.

As I've said though, the base Switch is still flying off shelves at $300 after 4 years. Despite it still not having had a price cut, even when many said it was overpriced at launch, (myself among them) Nintendo can't keep up with demand.

In that context, I can easily see them pricing a mid-gen "New Nintendo Switch" with a better and bigger screen, more storage, 4K upscaling, and a performance buff at $400. PS4 Pro and Xbox One X both cost what, $100-$200 more than the base model? Nintendo loves those sweet profit margins and people will run out and buy it on masse even if its not sporting a generational boost in graphics, just like the ran out in droves in 2017 to buy a system with less graphics power than a base Xbox One.

The consumers the Switch is targeting aren't looking for the latest in high end graphics technology.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 05 May 2021