Nintendo cuts the base Switch's price in Europe

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Mnementh said:

Apkopf said:

I can totally see that happening but then you are stuck with two very different price options where as the standard model would be somewhat of a middle option. If they face out the standard model the difference between the lite 200€ and the OLED model for 350€ is quite big and unless they plan to shrink that at some point soon I think there is value in a middle option.

Yeah, normally I would agree. But then - we have semiconductor shortages. The amount of units that can be produced is limited. If they cannot increase the number of produced units, they can increase the revenue. But price increase is usually not very popular. But a new more expensive model and phasing out the old one... that works.

Whilst Nintendo to a degree is affected by semiconductor shortages (Mostly to the DRAM and other chips), the SoC is built on a 14nm TSMC process, which isn't class-leading.
There just isn't as much in the way of congestion compared to say... TSMC 7nm which would have to fight between AMD's Radeon, Ryzen, Microsoft Xbox Series X/S, Sony Playstation 5, Apple A12, Kirin 990/980, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Intel, Mediatek and a shit ton more...

We are at that point where Phones/Tablets get priority over a gaming console.

Nintendo is in a very enviable position in the manufacturing scheme of things, this is one of the very few instances of having conservative hardware is going to be a benefit rather than a detriment.