yo33331 said:
A price cut in it's original form would be that yes. However in the last few years the trending have become the pricecut to be a cheaper model (as I edited my last comment, see the phone market, gaming computer market or even cars market if you want, everything has cheaper cutted version which still gives you more of the benefits of the expensive one) such is the case with the Switch Lite. And yes it lack's the ability of both. Apparantly most of the people buy it to play in handheld or just didn't bother if it doesn't have the home console option. That's why I said there will be little to no impact if the LITE is discountinued and the original model is dropped to 250 or 200$. There may be some small impact. Because the people who buys the switch mainly for home use either already have it, or someone who still hasn't bought a switch would buy it at a reduced price to use it as a home console too. But there won't be many. Of cource if the Lite is still on the market and is dropped as well then it could have a nice impact because not only the original model will be cheaper but the Lite and the OLED as well. And then we go to a entry price of probably 150$ ? Which will surely boost the sales. |
The argument that a price cut wouldn't boost the base Switch much assumes that the people who would buy a $200 base Switch consider the Lite a good enough alternative to be a substitute, but if that were true and the Lite was considered an adequate stand-in for the base model, then Lite sales would be higher than base model sales as everyone would just opt for the cheaper price.
The fact the Lite sells less than the base shows people don't see it as a full substitute.
