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curl-6 on 17 August 2022
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yo33331 said:
curl-6 said:

The base Switch is $300, not $250.

The fact that people still opt for the better model at a higher price shows it's not the same as a price cut, because if it was more people would choose the cheaper version. The fully featured launch Switch is still at full price and the Lite is a separate model with different functionality, so the system still hasn't had a price cut or an effective equivalent.

When a console get's price cut it's boost it's sales. That doesn't mean that if the console didn't get a price cut there wouldn't have been more sales to it. The given console would still sell units at the higher price however not so much as with the price cut. In the case of switch Without the Lite model a big portion of the sales of the Lite wouldn't been here (of those 19M sold at least 15M). And so now we wouldn't be looking at a 111M units sold for the Switch but rather probably below 100M. Of course if it wasn't for the Lite and it's price cut alternative the Switch would still sell good amount of units. Price cut is not needed for a console to continue selling. But it helps and it gives a nice boost (depends on which moment of the life of the console is done).

And okay, my bad. 300$

Lite's a hardware revision, not a price cut alternative, since the fully featured Switch is $300 and has been since launch. It lacks one of the main killer apps of the system, the ability to be both a handeld and a console, and this is reflected in its lower sales in spite of being $100 cheaper.

A price cut would be if the base model was reduced to $200 or $250.