| Slownenberg said: not alienate the Switch audience by telling them "well in a few years you might be able to buy the cheap version of the system but even that is going to be expensive". Just, in no world is that happening. |
This is exactly what they want though
No console system has ever shipped more than 20 million copies on its first year. They won't even have ways to manufacture that much consoles anyway
They need people to go to Switch 2 slowly, at simular pace as original Switch because the idea is early Switch (read: hardcore gaming enthusiasts and hardcore Nintendo fans) users will migrate to Switch 2 and the mid to late Switch owners will only migrate when their favorite games get released
If the points was to make people buy consoles asap to profit with software then they should have released Lite along with base Switch
Of course they didn't. 3DS was their budgeted console and they waited until the 3DS sales became as low as possible to replace them with the Lite.
Base Switch will be the budgted option while Switch 2 will be the expensive option. Once base Switch completely dies they will come with a less expensive Switch 2 portable only
