| Soundwave said: I think Nintendo honestly could do $449.99 easily the only reason they might not is because of the trauma of the 3DS and Wii U launch disasters but who knows if Furukawa feels the same way. Launch window lineup, look, performance, and marketing are as big or bigger factors than price. People fixate on the price too much, the GameCube was always cheap, it didn't help, the 3DS was quickly dropped to $169.99 but never could achieve DS level sales and the even cheaper 2DS did not give the system a sales boost, price cuts couldn't stop the Wii from sales decline. |
Nintendo can easily charge 450 USD and still selling a lot. People are not understanding the level of dominance Switch has now in the market. They are the ONLY console japanese people care and east Asia follows Japan. Japanese don't give a damn about power, they like portables and as long Nintendo have no competition in portable space they can ask as much money as they want and japanese people will just pay happily
The guys who are afraid of Nintendo pissing off the mass market with pricing are forgetting the mass market will not buy Switch 2 in the first years. They can always do price cuts after the first years. If the mass market is happy buying 2007 tec for 350 USD in 2023, they will be equally happy to pay 400 USD for Switch 2 in a few years. There is no point in lowbailling launch price, as we can see by PS5 the odds are Nintendo will fail to even meet demand in the first 2 years anyway
As long Switch 2 has quality system sellers, a good general transition and appealing marketing it's a 100 million+ seller secured
