IcaroRibeiro said:
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 |
lol yeah Switch is dominant in part because its 200/300/350. Notice how none of those numbers are anywhere near 450. Nintendo can easily decide to charge 450 sure, but they certainly wouldn't be selling a lot if they did, they'd kill off all the momentum the Switch has built for them.
You say Japanese people don't give a damn about power....and then say Nintendo should charge 450. That's confusing lol. So you're saying Nintendo should charge 450 not because they are making a really high end system but just to massively overcharge their customers. wow. I don't think you should ever go into business haha. Despite what you apparently think, people don't generally "just pay happily" for things they are massively overcharged for, at least the masses don't. Rich people do, but there aren't tens of millions of rich people to buy a 450 Nintendo system as a status symbol lol.
You're literally saying 450 is okay because Nintendo can just do what they had to do with the 3DS when 450 fails. whaaat??? Whyyyyyyy would they want to have to do that in the first place?!? I think its pretty obvious that's a situation they definitely don't want to duplicate, but you're specifically saying you want them to. so weird.
Also nobody is paying 350 USD in 2023 for 2007 tech. No idea what you're even talking about there. Switch came out in 2017 with a 2015 chip. So I'm guessing you meant 2017 not 2007.
Your whole comment could go under a course of "what not to do in business".
lol at multiple people saying $450. Zero chance at that. Nintendo ain't stupid. Sure they would still have a big launch and a big holiday still, but they'd be hamstrung by general weak sales outside of holidays if they went that high. Even $399 is pushing it. At $450 they'd just have many millions of people waiting for like a $100 price cut before buying the system. They'd put themselves in the same position that they did with the 3DS, needing a big price cut within the first 12 months to not lose all momentum from the previous amazingly popular gen.
Why do you all want Nintendo to suddenly make systems that aren't affordable? I'm so confused with this sentiment. Switch was affordable and great and popular. You want Nintendo to turn their back on that strategy to either rip off their customers or just to make next gen a bit more powerful (which also probably means bad battery life and therefore a much less portable system - I don't think anyone wants Switch 2 to turn into a Steam Deck) and you don't care that it would mean next gen would be much less popular? I don't get where some of your alls desire for an expensive Nintendo system comes from.
There is neither a business need nor a market desire for an expensive Nintendo system. It would make zero sense for Nintendo to put out something that costs $450 unless their goal is to weaken their business. $450 either means ripping off their customers or a clunky non-portable portable like Steam Deck, and both of those options means low sales. Saying Nintendo should make a really expensive system is so random and against their entire business philosophy it's so weird some people on this site really want this to happen. It's like some of you have never paid any attention to how Nintendo operates and what makes them popular.
