Fight-the-Streets said:
That's an interesting question. I don't think things play out 1:1, i.e. having this first holidays season will make higher lifetime sales. Sure, if you start later with sales you have to catch up but on the other hand with this first holiday sales, the saturation point would also have been reached a bit earlier, meaning that by about today we would have about the same lifetime sales (higher initial sales with earlier reach of saturation point vs. lower initial sales with later saturation point). Personaly, once the Switch is discontinued I guess we would have about the same lifetime sales. |
Good point. Consoles aren't evergreen, and there is a finite number of customers in the world that will buy one. In the case of the Switch though, maybe the lifetime numbers really would be higher if Nintendo was able to match the insane demand during its first two years. Granted, anyone who really wanted one that bad has had years to go and get it by now, so that demographic of disenfranchised potential buyers who never came back is likely negligible.
