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

Yet again, the Lite is not equivalent to a price cut, because lower sales despite a lower price show it isn't valued the same as the fully featured Switch.

It's not the same value propositon at a lower price point, it's a lesser package that doesn't offer the full Switch experience.

If it had the effect of a price cut, most Switch sales would be Lites, but the opposite is true

It is correct to say the Switch never got a price cut, because getting the full Switch experience still costs $300, just like it did in 2017. (And probably just like it will until it's discontinued)

Lower sales than what ? With what u compare the sales of the Lite ?

Yes it's not the same value, no one argues. But the mass customer looks more for the final price than actually the value. When they see 100$ the people that can't afford the better one (regular Switch) will buy the model for 200$. Most sales are on the original system because more of the people can afford to spend 300$ for the better product. And big portion of the people who would have bought the regular system at 200$ in 2019 till now, bought the Lite at 200$, because are on a budget.

It's correct to say that the regular switch hadn't price cut yet, but the Switch family overall already got cheaper system - the Lite at 200$ so it's like price cut. And the final effect is almost the same (there may be little difference in the final sales numbers in the end if we compare both scenarios (as it is now and as if was the regular switch reduced to 200$ without Lite release), but it would be negligible.

Lower sales than the base model. Since the Lite came out, full Switch has outsold it, by a lot, despite costing more.

The sales ratios clearly show that the difference is not "negligible" to the consumer as they've demonstrated that most of them think the full Switch experience is worth paying an extra $100.

Therefore, if the full Switch is worth $100 more to most people, then a full Switch at $200 would offer greatly more value than a $200 Lite and therefore sell much more.