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

People don't just spend an extra $100 if they don't have to though. It's still a significant bit of money for most folks.

The primary selling point of the Switch is its hybrid functionality. Consumers have shown they'll pay more for that. And that, the full Switch experience, is still the same price now as it was at launch.

Yes, exactly. Because of this there are 20M Lite units sold. There are many people on a budget.

Consumers have shown that some of them are on a budget and want cheaper option (Lite), and most of them are fine with the original one and the benefits that is giving at the 300$. Some portion of them are also fine with the OLED model (the most expensive one). And yes the regular system is still at 300$ but most of the sales that would happened with regular model dropped to 200$ (without Lite release) already happened with the Lite system. Because big portion of the people want just to play on a good handheld console, and the home use is not important enough to cancel their purchase of the Lite model for 200$. So whoever wanted to play switch games on the go for as cheap as it can be, got on the train with the Lite. Those same people will not buy the Switch again if the regular model drops to 200$ because they already have the system.

That's still the same flawed logic though, because home use clearly is important to consumers since most will pay an extra $100 for it.

The sales ratio proves most consumers don't see the Lite as substitute for the full model.

Most want the full Switch experience, and they can't get that from the $200 Lite. 

Last edited by curl-6 - on 17 August 2022