How much will Nintendo cut the price of the Switch?

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haxxiy said:

AFAIK the Switch has never seen an APU die shrink - only a sideway move to TSMC's 16nm finfet - and most of its components are mature tech. So there are not a lot of reasons to believe it's much cheaper to manufacture today than it was six years ago, and that's without taking inflation into account. Probably no price cuts.

Correct.

They took the 20nm planar chip and re-spun it on the 16nm finfet. - Offered about a 15-20% smaller chip thanks to density improvements and refinement to the chip itself.

However, 16nm FF is actually a very cheap process and getting cheaper, especially for small chips like the Tegra X1 as advertised process nodes like 7-5-3nm are getting all the competition driving up prices as customers move downwards to newer nodes. I.E. AMD used Asmedia for the X670 chipset which is built at 6nm.

The DRAM and NAND though, both are at some of their lowest costs ever.

The Switch should be cheaper to manufacture even with inflation applying pressure.

Only reason we haven't had a price cut is because Nintendo simply has not needed one, they are a business, they will take every dollar they can.