| ShadowLink93 said: I've heard rumours of a price drop for NSW circulating by various Nintendo fan channels, possibly a $250 price point for the regular hybrid model. I don't get it though, you can't justify the Oled being $100 more when it offers only a minor upgrade and the main reason for the yoy decline is down to the NSW Lite not selling very well, it would be more logical to drop the Lite to $169.99 or even $149.99 because consumers do not consider it to be value for money and would rather pay the extra $100 for the hybrid model especially in Japan where the Hybrid is consistently outselling the lite 5 to 1 recently. |
I think Nintendo focuses on making each sku a profit. While the lite might not be selling well, they don't want to drop its price so much that they are losing money on hardware sales. Their hybrid sells a lot more, which means profitability is alot more attainable even if they drop its price.
Also, if that rumor is true, it's possible they are dropping the price of Switch simply to purge through that stock and permanently replace that sku with the OLED one and stop manufacturing OG hybrid altogether. If there goal is to sell them off ASAP so they can focus exclusively on selling OLED + Lites, that makes sense.
