| Fight-the-Streets said: Obviously, no company wants to cannibalize their new product by actively promoting the predecessor product. Ideally, every company wants their consumers to buy the newest (and most expensive) product, that's a no-brainer. However, not promoting doesn't mean to kill-off the old product. If the old product is still popular it will naturally continue to sell well (given its age). That's what will happen to Switch 1, no pormotion by Nintendo anymore but the thing will still sell well, considering its age. Nintendo will not call those buyers and try to convince them to buy the Switch 2 instead because essentially it's also a Switch 1 and has so many more advantages. A portion of the late buyers are simply not informed and buy the old product - no loss for Nintendo as those people usually aren't as engaged into the ecosystem anyway (i.e. they will buy 3-4 games and that's it). Others simply buy an additonal system (or two or three) for their child(ren). For their kids, they don't want to spent too much money (i.e. Switch 2 will be too expensive for that). Other late buyers probably just make an instant buy on black friday or whenever they have that extra money at hand. There are actually various scenarios why people still buy a Switch 1 in 2024, 2025 and even 2026. |
Or Nintendo could do something similar to the DS-3DS ... they purposefully cut off DS stock. I mean sure you could buy a DS for about a year afterwards, but they definitely stopped shipping them in big amounts. I just don't think for Nintendo there's a whole lot of upside to selling Switch 1's at $300-$350 a pop in 2024 past the point of Switch 2 launch (or near to it even). That person should just buy a Switch 2, it's better for them, better for Nintendo, so even if Switch 2 doesn't have 3DS' initial problems, I could still see them wanting to push that angle.
Sony has done the same thing with the PS4 even though they easily probably could keep selling the PS4 for another few years (PS4 Pro is gone completely it seems like).
For kids, I think Nintendo will keep the Switch Lite, but I wouldn't be surprised if shipments for that are on the thin side too.
They'll make just enough I think where the people who really, really can't afford it or need only a Switch 1 only and won't budge for whatever reason to be able to get one is my guess. Just like you can get a PS4 right now, they're just not nearly as widely stocked/shipped.
Switch 2 again probably IS a Switch 1 in Nintendo's eyes (now if you're only interested in totalling up hardware totals by strict product categories, of course you're not going to be happy about that, but that's not really Nintendo's problem).
In Nintendo's view, if you're in the market for a hybrid console you can buy a Switch 1 in fall 2024 and beyond. It's called a Switch 2.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 16 August 2023
