Switch has plenty of 30 and 40 year old gamers so yeah those people with likely more disposable income that kids, teens, college students, and people just out of college, are going to be all over premium products like the OLED and very willing to pay more for them. The Lite is good for parents that have multiple kids who each want to be able to play at the same time, and also for some cultures like Japan where lots of people only game handheld. But in general most people want the hybrid models over the handheld-only model.
For Switch 2 I think $350 is most likely, cuz I mean the OLED is $350 so I doubt Swtich 2 will come in at less than that.
What will be interesting is what they do with the Switch when the successor launches. Are they gonna drop the price of the Switch to like $150/$220/$270 or something to differentiate the old system from the next-gen?? Or will they just pretty much stop manufacturing the Switch right when the successor comes out so that the similarly priced Switch OG and Switch OLED start getting rare very quickly so only the Switch 2 is on store shelves, along with maybe a few Switch Lites since Switch Lite would be a whole different price point than Switch 2, for those wanting to pick up a cheap Switch at the end of its lifecycle.
I don't think there is any way Nintendo does like a $400 price point, but $300 feels unlikely as well just because Switch and OLED are still selling at $300 and $350. Even if those two models get a $50 price drop in say 2024, it would be very strange if a successor system came out at the same price point ($300) as the previous gen system costs at the same time. I think it'd be nice to see $350 launch, and then actually drop the price to $300 after a like three years, and then do a premium Switch 2 at $350 like the OLED.
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