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Slownenberg on 18 August 2023
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javi741 said:
Slownenberg said:

Yeah a $300/$350 Switch is way to close in price to a $350-$400 Switch 2. Even if it is actually $399.99, which I doubt it'll be that high, that's too close. Nintendo is gonna much rather have people buy the next gen system and have the potential to buy games from both gens, rather than just last gen.

Really the only two options are to cut off original & OLED production when successor comes out, or give them both big price discounts to try to sell them to the "cheaper" crowd. If people are buying a $300-$400 system Nintendo is gonna want them to be buying Switch 2, not Switch.

I think it is most likely Nintendo simply shuts down original & OLED production soon after Switch 2 launch (like say rigth after 2024 holiday season, assuming switch 2 is a 2024 holiday launch) and discounts the price heading into the Switch 2 launch just so they can sell those last few million in stock. Keep the Lite around at $200 just at low production levels, and basically completely move over to Switch 2 production. A slightly cheaper Switch1 doesn't have a place in a market with a slightly more expensive Switch2.

Nintendo definitely won't drop the Switch & Switch Oled that early after launch. Even if the price gap between the Switch 1 & Switch 2 isn't that big, Nintendo would still definitely want to keep the Switch 1 around in case somehow the Switch 2 underperforms.

Except at that point its too late. They aren't going to go back to making Switch games all of a sudden just cuz if Switch 2 underperforms. Nintendo didn't start making Wii games again when WiiU failed. (edit: even better example, Nintendo didn't suddenly switch from 3DS back to the DS being their main system when 3DS got off to a rough start, they cut the price of the 3DS and really started pushing it. You don't go back to last gen if current gen starts off bad, you do everything you can to push current gen). No company would ever do that. By the time next gen starts all of Nintendo will be focused on it, Switch will just be picking up the latecomers looking for a cheap system, and that's why the Lite will stay on the market, whereas the other two models will simply have to disappear or get large price cuts to warrant them still being in production.

Last edited by Slownenberg - on 18 August 2023